My kind of guys, s’all I’m sayin’. Listen to the NPR Morning Edition short blurb here.
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Vandals in Hot Water for ‘Fixing’ Typo on Historic Grand Canyon Sign
Saturday , August 23, 2008
PHOENIX –
When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense.
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 Aug. 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.”
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LOVE it!
That’s awesome!
They should’ve had the grammar correction kit from the back of the paperback edition of EATS, SHOOTS, LEAVES. That way they could go around fixing signs and not get arrested for it.
Hmmm… Must check out “Eats, Shoots, Leaves”…