The real bullshit is calling scrawling your name on a bathroom stall "Vandalism". The term comes from the Vandal people sacking the city of Rome for two weeks straight, plundering everything down to gilded roof tiles of Roman temples.

I don't know quite where it started, but there's definitely the Christian and legal concept of sin/crime as a qualitative offense rather than a quantitative one. You are a murderer if you kill one, two, or five people. At some point you become a mass murderer, but that's the same whether you kill a thousand, or a hundred thousand. Likewise you're a vandal whether you appropriate a bathroom stall by writing your name on it or you destroy a river. You're polluting a river whether you chuck a bag of garbage in it or dumping industrial quantities of waste that kills dozens.

I don’t mean to be picky but the guy caused “wilful and malicious damage and destruction” which is exactly the current definition of what “vandalism” means, so, in that sense, the word usage is spot-on.

I find it tiresome when people get on their high horse because they don’t understand what a quote is.