Mean Girls

Today's crazy news item that's surprisingly relevant to yesterday's news item in that they both have the word "rat" in them:

Judge finds girls guilty in poisoning attempt
A Lake County circuit judge found two middle school girls guilty of trying to kill two classmates by putting rat poison in their milk cartons. [Gee, in my day, students were just tormented or ostracized, with the occassional violent wedgie or swirly--which was fortunate for me, since I was likely on the receiving end. No one thought of POISON!]
Stephanie Quesney, 12, and Holley Sweeney, 13, were found guilty of plotting and executing a plan to kill two classmates they disliked. [I wonder what they would have done if they'd outright HATED someone?]
Authorities say Quesnoy and Sweeney put d-Con rat poison in the milk cartons of two other girls during the lunch hour at Daly Middle School last year. [When questioned about their motive, Quesney replied, "Like, LaFawnda wore the same skirt as me, like, FIVE times! Plus her highlights were totally off for her complexion." "It was, like, totally social triage," added Sweeney, "we we trying to put them out of their misery.]
When the two victims finished their drinks, they saw pellets at the bottom. The girls did not feel good and were taken to the hospital. [Initially they thought they had developed spontaneous lactose intolerance.]
The green, crystalline pellets of d-Con hadn't worked their way into the milk before the victims consumed it, authorities say, and no one was injured.

This takes the "Mean Girls" concept a little too far. Why can't kids stick with making other kids' lives a living hell rather than try to kill them?