They're drawn, or sent, to areas of violence.
Sooooo, these meteors, they're rather like neds then?
Given the police failure to identify all the looters during the London riots, do you think they should turn their attention to suspicious-looking lumps of space rock? Perhaps put their snouts out looking for solar debris trying to shift TVs and jewelry at rock-bottom prices?
Rock-bottom...geddit?......(tumbleweed)