Self-Styled Typo Vigilantes Sentenced
23/08/2008 04:18
For vandalizing Grand
Canyon park
signFrom CBC News
PHOENIX - When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defence.
Two self-styled vigilantes against typos have been sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year.
Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson pleaded guilty Aug. 11 for defacing a more than 60-year-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park on March 28.
Authorities say Deck wrote in a diary that they used a marker to cover an erroneous apostrophe, put the apostrophe in its proper place with white-out and added a comma.
Deck and Herson, both 28, toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs.
They were interviewed by the Chicago Tribune, which called them "a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation."
SINC SAYS:
Some people just have waaaay too much time on their hands, don’t they?