Take that, government!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/22/sign.vandals.ap/index.html

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"PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense. Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson corrected the grammar in the first paragraph of this sign. Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a more than 60-year-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year. Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson pleaded guilty August 11 for the damage done March 28 at the park's Desert View Watchtower. The sign was made by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the architect who designed the rustic 1930s watchtower and other Grand Canyon-area landmarks. Deck and Herson, both 28, toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs. They were interviewed by NPR and the Chicago Tribune, which called them "a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation." An affidavit by National Park Service agent Christopher A. Smith said investigators learned of the vandalism from an Internet site operated by Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League. Authorities said a diary written by Deck reported that while visiting the watchtower, he and Herson "discovered a hand-rendered sign inside that, I regret to report, contained a few errors." The fiberboard sign has yellow lettering with a black background. Deck wrote that they used a marker to cover an erroneous apostrophe, put the apostrophe in its proper place with correction fluid and added a comma. The misspelled word "emense" was not fixed, Deck wrote, because "I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further. ... Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity, emense, in my train-whistle-blighted dreams tonight." Deck and Herson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to vandalize government property. They were sentenced to a year's probation, during which they cannot enter any national park or modify any public signs. They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign. The TEAL Web site now has only this message: "Statement on the signage of our National Parks and public lands to come.""

8/23/2008 11:08:31 AM

There are times to blog, and then there are times to plead the fifth...

8/23/2008 11:12:10 AM

three grand to fixed a fucked-up sign?

8/23/2008 11:12:58 AM

Sticking it to the man vs. Getting assraped by the gummint!

8/23/2008 11:13:52 AM

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"I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further. ... Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity, emense, in my train-whistle-blighted dreams tonight."

8/23/2008 11:13:54 AM

hahahaha

even I'm not this bad

8/23/2008 11:18:10 AM

There are some sad pathetic people in this world.

8/23/2008 11:20:06 AM

their in emense trubble now,

8/23/2008 11:21:43 AM

lol, this thread reminds me of when my teacher in high school said she had gotten out her red pen and corrected a sign in a hospital once.

8/23/2008 11:46:02 AM

This is a bench in the courtyard at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

8/23/2008 11:49:13 AM

8/23/2008 11:52:12 AM

^^ just let it go. There are other problems that need your creativity and attention.

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8/23/2008 11:52:47 AM

creativity?

You must not be talking to me

8/23/2008 11:53:54 AM

well you know the saying:

good enough for government work

8/23/2008 11:54:39 AM

bobby bobby bobby digi digi digi wins...

8/23/2008 11:56:09 AM

^^FTW!

8/23/2008 12:04:25 PM

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"Typo Eradication Advancement League"

I want to join.

8/23/2008 12:19:16 PM