Setting a kitten on fire. No really

A while back a made a post with the titled “Setting a kitten on fire“. I was trying to come up with something shocking yet clearly preposterous at the same time. I mean no human being could be so cruel as to set a kitten on fire, right? Apparently not. Right on the heels of Michael Vick’s indictment for dog fighting, I see this:

Teen Girls Accused Of Setting Kitten Ablaze

From the article (and digg comments):

An 11-year-old boy and his friend said they saw the smoke and heard the cat shrieking while the girls laughed.

How? Where do people like this come from? What makes a person this way? I can’t even begin to comprehend that kind of cruelty. What the hell is wrong with people?.