Because they can.

It's what they do...mindless penalizing machines.

Here's our race committee, with me in her right hand, a non-class snuffer in her left, and a slightly modified Hobie 16 in the background.
(Just a little joke, LJ, just a joke <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />)