Well, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. Just ask these guys.
Their crime? Erasing typos from public signs. The pair belong to a the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL), and the purpose of the group is to correct typographical errors on public signs and signs visible to the public.
Unfortunately, the two men picked the wrong sign to correct.
While at Desert View Watchtower on the South Rim on March 28, they were accused of using a whiteout product and a permanent marker to deface a sign that's a National Historic Landmark.
I'm curious about two things. First, what did the sign say? And second, are these guys copyeditors?
When I worked at the newspaper, the brass put a glass key-locked bulletin board case in the elevators. The bulletin board was used to post memos for employees. The glass case was to prevent copyeditors from correcting typos, ungrammatical text, sexist language, or otherwise non-A.P. style prose.
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