Originally Posted by
cc700
yeah this is just an exercise in somewhat-legal semantics.
I'm me ain't no lawyer neither, i'm be a *****-fied english major.
wiki calls it "the conspicuous defacement or destruction of a structure, a symbol or anything else that goes against the will of the owner/governing body" and that conspicious word is where the intention comes in. they go on to say that in criminal stuff, "Private citizens commit vandalism when they wilfully damage or deface the property of others or the commons"
the nature of whether or not it's a crime is different, obviously intention doesn't matter on whether or not the destructive act is a crime or not, it's just a different crime and not called vandalism.
like i said, semantics.
What y'all are circling around is the legal concept of specific intent. Specific intent crimes
require the perpetrator intends to achieve a particular consequence, rather than
to simply engage in the prohibited conduct.
I think I don't really care if the idiots as this track intended to create skids or not, they should
be forced to clean it off in the hot sun while listening to Abba or something equally punitive.