Two men sentenced in federal court for fixing typos

Two men have been sentenced to a year of probation and more than $3,000 in restitution after they fixed a misplaced apostrophe and a comma on a sign at the Grand Canyon.

The men , Michael Deck and Benjamin Herson, both 28, are self-anointed “grammar vigilantes” and members of the Typo Eradication Advancement League. They had been touring the country on a wild two-month spree in which they fixed numerous mistakes on government signs.

But they faced the strict letter of the law after they corrected a 60-year-old marker at the Grand Canyon National Park that is a registered National Historic Landmark. They were charged with vandalism and ordered not to enter any national parks for a year and not to correct any more punctuation mistakes made by the federal government.

Ironically, the pair said they went to the Grand Canyon on a “day off” from fixing typos, and didn’t even bother to rectify the sign’s misspelling of the word “immense.”

Source: The Arizona Republic .

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