About a month ago, some very nice guy in my town was curb-stomped. He was coming out of the bar and two "badasses" thought it was funny to beat up some guy, a guy that though I do not know, I have heard is so kind, he wouldn't hurt a fly.
Shortly thereafter the beating, they went to the gas station about three blocks away and began laughing and bragging about it. What is sad is two girls my sister graduated with are dating them, and sadly, these girls must be all kinds of gullible, because they believe these boyfriends weren't in the wrong based on their "testimony" (What that testimony is, I do not know, but I can bet "not guilty" and "I didn't do it" was part of it).
They aren't in jail yet, but they are now hated, the girls they are dating are now hated (for dating and defending them) and the kid, happily, is still alive. He won't live normally ever again (It was touch and go for awhile, he was in a chemically induced coma to reduce damage, now it's a wired jaw situation, but he's alive).
It's difficult to believe that something like this could ever happen in a small town of maybe 1500 people, but at least there is something of a happy ending in it.