I saw these dudes tonight on TV looking all pitiful:

The men who say they were unwilling passengers on Lindsay Lohan’s wild ride through Santa Monica have retained a lawyer who said he hopes to resolve the case without hauling the actress into court.

Attorney Randall Billington told The Associated Press on Friday that he has been retained by Dante Nigro and Jakon Sutter, who say they pleaded with Lohan to stop as she raced along the Pacific Coast Highway at 100 mph before dawn Tuesday. He is also representing Ronnie Blake, who says Lohan drove Nigro’s sport-utility vehicle over his foot as she raced off with the vehicle. [cha-ching]

“She says, ‘I can’t get in trouble, I’m a celebrity, I can do whatever the … I want,” Nigro said.

As she spoke with police, Nigro said, Lohan tried to implicate Sutter.

“We can hear her saying, ‘No, no, I wasn’t driving, the black kid was driving,” he said. [double cha-ching]

Sutter and Blake are black, and Nigro is white.