Paint me red
People in the neighborhood can be annoyed when things that they see every day for years never get refreshed or looked after properly by the local government. Take for example this mailbox that was placed on a corner and left alone for a decade. No one came by to repaint it or get the rust off.
Only when someone complained and vandalized it with paint, did the local government take notice and send someone to paint over it. If this wasn’t done, it probably would have never happened, so in this case, the vandals were the good guys. They painted in order to get something painted again.