Same reason I haul 500,000 m3 worth of compressed ore to market in a Venture rather than a hauler. 99% of the time no one is going to bother cargo scanning a Venture at a gate as opposed to a hauler…
Bob bless these crazy idiots. Every cargo hauled in easily-blappable stuff is one more likely to fall into the lap of the deserving - as well as providing ample justification for destroying anything you can, wherever you can, whenever you can - never know when the loot fairy is gonna pay you a visit.
Many Null pilots we pop do it often where they bring in unassuming small ships towards jita or try to leave only to lose it with billions in cargo. Never assume the noobship is just a noobship.
Either what people already mentioned (expecting nobody to shoot a rookie ship) or it is deliberate RMT (though they could do that in any other ship too as well).
People know I don’t support griefers and I don’t like ganking in general, but this is completely not bright and while I won’t say he deserves it he certainly didn’t help himself.
i think they are stupid
also i think they want to be sneaky sneaky
i don’t shot corvetes for example , so if was me he could be blinking red on my side i would just ignore
ohhhh he was in low sec omg
to me the best way to travel in low sec (besides impel for serious business hauling ) is in a punisher , good warp and can take one round of smart bombs and survive
there is a point between my main base and jita , dudes spam smart bomb there , the punisher lose half life and pass like a boss