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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.
Handwaving away assault, and then going on about "crime against society" (please) and "an affront of all our heritage" (nonsense). What he did was vandalism, pure and simple. He did something stupid, but 1) he didn't destroy it 2) injuring someone is far worse than petty vandalism even in the name of "history".
You're a fanatic. Life is going to go on just fine for everyone over a minute and stupid change to some mostly unimportant sign anyway, and guess what? Nobody really is hurt.
"Affront of all our heritage." Please. How pretentious. Heritage is such a description of the past, who gives a fuck if it's "affronted." The fact that you think destroying a historic artifact should possibly result in death, despite no one being injured, shows that you're a crazed psychopath at the very least. Property damage should not be a capital crime.
By any chance were you a leader of the USSR?