Jonathan Morris wrote:

It's clear that these people knew what they were doing. I was in
America last week and there was an accident where two 17 year olds
were killed on motorcycles, having been drinking and street racing. I
was quite surprised to see that the media and even friends blamed
them for their stupidity. Rather than saying 'Poor lads' or 'it was a
tragic accident' or blamed someone else (the bike manufacturers or
something), they were quite clear - a stupid 'accident' that wouldn't
have happened if they hadn't been idiots.

That is quite different: by drinking and street racing, they were risking
others, whereas the graffiti artists weren't endangering anyone's life.

Perhaps it's time we started to think the same way about these things
(it doesn't mean you don't have sympathy for the family, especially if
they didn't know what their kids were doing). You just know that over
here, there will be an inquiry and a family will possibly end up
suing, and winning, compensation from LUL, the driver or maybe the
security guard/s for scaring them and making them panic...

I suspect that drivers who hit graffitijits feels fine, unlike drivers who
hit suicides or fallers.