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Typo Vigilantes Get Banned From National Parks
Jeff Michael Deck and Benjamin Douglas Herson travel the nation removing typos from public signs. As you can imagine, nobody cared, that is until they 'fixed' a historic marker at the Grand Canyon. The pair were charged with vandalism, sentenced to a year's probation, during which they cannot enter any national park, and ordered to pay restitution. Deck, a Dartmouth graduate, told reporters he became passionate about grammar after winning junior-high spelling bees. It's a shame that you can't spell your way into a life.
If it is, I'm okay with it. Assault is just against one person, and they'll most likely heal - the destruction of historic artifacts is a crime against society, an affront to all of our heritage. Much like I believe intentional arson against historic structures should be punished by life imprisonment or possibly capital punishment. Then again I'm a historian in my spare time, and I take such things quite seriously considering the number of irreplaceable items we've lost to such pointless acts of stupidity.