Church Fires "A Joke"

What fresh hell is this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11726024/

A couple of college buddies from the University of Alabama set five church fires as A JOKE?

And then that "joke" got kinda out of hand?

I suppose the next thing I'm going to hear is how these sociopaths are "really great kids."

Lord have mercy. Hold me back.