things I don't understand

1. What is the connection between Tiger Woods driving into a fire hydrant outside his home at 2:30 in the morning and confessing to having mistresses? He didn't have his mistress with him in the car. How did the one event lead to the other? I'm missing something here.

2. Why does everyone seem to consider it more reprehensible to burgle the home of dead people than the home of living people? The burglar says he didn't know they were dead. That makes it somehow OK, then?