Courtney:
You are being disingenuous. There is no comparison between overflying a busy main road (as anyone approaching Shoreham has to do 80% of the time), and pulling, what, 2-3g, out of a loop at over 200kts, 100ft, even 500ft, above a main arterial highway on a Saturday afternoon. That's where the insanity seems to come in.
It would be a bit difficult to stay "safely within the confines of the airfield" at Shoreham - and most other airfields - in a Hunter. As for overflying the A27, aircraft do it all the time on the approach to 20 there - a lot of airfields that have main roads crossing close to the main runway. In this case the display axis crosses the road. Have you not looked at the display maps for Shoreham before pontificating about it?
So, if what we saw (with the exception of the final seconds) was the PLANNED and APPROVED manoeuvre, it was unsafely executed, unsafely planned, and unsafely approved. The result was slaughter, which is why some people are quite angry about it.