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PostPosted: Aug 23, 2008 1:32 pm    Post subject: Team Swass Reply with quote
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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."



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PostPosted: Aug 25, 2008 6:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not quite that militant. Right? Laughing

I do have to resist the urge to go on a "learn how to use a &*$)# apostrophe" rant at least 5 times/day.

I'm getting better. To wit: Over the weekend, I was asked if I wanted to purchase a picture booklet thingy for my son's football team. You know the deal - photographer takes pictures at practices, games, etc. and then makes a slick booklet thing for the end of the year. Anyway, the lady hands me what apparently was her best work from last year in an effort to entice me into purchasing one. Well, the title said "The Year of the Mustang's." I just handed it back and said "no thank you."
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PostPosted: Aug 25, 2008 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's not about you being militant Swass, it's about your people. Promoting for proper grammar everywhere. Laughing Laughing
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