Vandalizing signs to fix typos?

Sixty years old isn't 'historic' in my book. It's recent enough for modern grammar.

Oh. I thought this was going to be about signs like these:











In which case I fully support vandalization for correct grammar and spelling. And yeah, 60 years old isn't historic.

This is historic:

Ya know, I keep harpin' on how we can't expect government to do everything, or to do things right... and I keep harpin' on how we need to get more involved in our communities and make personal efforts to right the wrongs we see.

However, this was not what I had in mind.

Man, I wish I hadn't read this. Now I'm sorely tempted to do it, too.

I'd probably misspell my own corrections, sharpies don't have spellcheck.

Can I go on a tirade about how this is yet another example how the sense of entitlement we have in this country? I mean, this is a pretty effin arrogant thing for these guys to do. I can think of a few bad names to call them. Typos bother me too, but it isn't appropriate to decide to 'fix' something like that.

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sassandgroove said:

Can I go on a tirade about how this is yet another example how the sense of entitlement we have in this country? I mean, this is a pretty effin arrogant thing for these guys to do. I can think of a few bad names to call them. Typos bother me too, but it isn't appropriate to decide to 'fix' something like that.

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Thanks, Sass. That's my take on it too. And since they did it in MY state, in a national park, I'm doubly angry. Let them go deface signs in their own states.

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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.

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"Repair"? Isn't that what they had set out to do? And the park wants to "correct" it by messing it up again?

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They are my heroes. I've written them for recruitment into my anti-LOLCatz campaign.

Here's my favorite part:

The TEAL Web site now has only this message — "Statement on the signage of our National Parks and public lands to come" — without a period.

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Man, wish my biggest worry had to do with old signs spelled and punctuated wrong.

These guys don't know how good they've got it - er - had it, I guess...

I do this all the time inside stores. I'd never thought to try it with street signs. o.o

Bart, who edits mens' room graffiti.

Typos are were the enemy, during the ten+ years I spent as a proofreader, so I applaud these guys (also there is another individual I've heard about)for trying to correct mis-information caused by typos! In the case of historic markers and municipal signs, crude correction notations are certainly not the type of "fix" I would seek, so "defacing" them seems kinda silly to me, but the signs are already "wrecked" because they are WRON G. But if the "fix" is well-done or involves replacing the sign then I say, "Bravo"!! And to quote the Cat: "Oh very young what will you leave us this time. . ."

Edit: Okay, so they are 28, not so young, but I do love the idealism.

Typos bother me too, but it isn't appropriate to decide to 'fix' something like that.

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Sass, I doubt anyone is seriously supporting these guys, but can't you admit just a twinge of desire to do the same thing sometimes?

I get itchy fingers when I get something from my kid's school that really needs work. I don't do it, because my kids might suffer because of it.

I had a friend who moved to Mississippi because he liked the area. He could live pretty much where he wanted. They moved back to Texas because of the schools. He said the final straw was when his child came home with a print out of a turkey to color in (everyone remember those?), which had, in large script over the bird:

Gobel, Gobel.

Oh yeah, but we restrain ourselves. We rec'd a letter at work requesting donations to support a local high school band. It was full of grammar and format errors. And it was from the school staff, not students. Why should I send money to support that? I asked my boss (jokingly) if I could correct it and send it back. She said it wasn't worth our time.

Joe270 said:

Sass, I doubt anyone is seriously supporting these guys, but can't you admit just a twinge of desire to do the same thing sometimes?

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Why not? Like said before, 60 years isn't exactly 'historic'.

I don't have a problem with what they did. Do the authorities not want the sign to be correct?

the best sign that i saw had nothing to do with public service. here it is:

english TUTION lessons

kuwisdelu said:

"Repair"? Isn't that what they had set out to do? And the park wants to "correct" it by messing it up again?

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kuwisdelu said:

Why not? Like said before, 60 years isn't exactly 'historic'.

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Because it isn't their place to do it and taking it upon themselves to 'fix it' is graffiti. They are arrogant know-it-alls*. And frankly I don't care if the sign is historic or not, it is defacing property and is wrong. PERIOD.

*that's me being generous, I can think of very bad names to call them.

veinglory said:

I don't have a problem with what they did. Do the authorities not want the sign to be correct?

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So you go to them and point it out. It is up to the national park to fix it or not, not these punks.

sassandgroove said:

Because it isn't their place to do it and taking it upon themselves to 'fix it' is graffiti. They are arrogant know-it-alls*. And frankly I don't care if the sign is historic or not, it is defacing property and is wrong. PERIOD.

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Eh, I consider them public servants for it. Kudos to the proactive.

kuwisdelu said:

Eh, I consider them public servants for it. Kudos to the proactive.

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Sorry, K, for once you're wrong. Whether you consider 60 years old historic or not, it's a handpainted sign, part of the history of the park.

It's an arrogant, smug, self aggrandizing, obnoxious, and altogether creepy act of juvenile idiocy by two assholes.

kuwisdelu said:

Eh, I consider them public servants for it. Kudos to the proactive.

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It's public property after all, right? It's not like there's an issue of property rights, if it were on private property. These guys are just helping their own employees get the job done right!

rugcat said:

Sorry, K, for once you're wrong. Whether you consider 60 years old historic or not, it's a handpainted sign, part of the history of the park.

It's an arrogant, smug, self aggrandizing, obnoxious, and altogether creepy act of juvenile idiocy by two assholes.

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Oh, it happens time to time. And I don't really doubt the logic of that. They probably should have let the park fix it. I'm just irrationally offended by bad grammar. But then I'm irrationally irritated by many things.