Two men who toured the country correcting typographical errors on public signs were banned from national parks for one year after defacing a historic sign in Grand Canyon National Park. Claiming affiliation with Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL), one man's journal entry claimed the two sought to rectify "apostrophic misunderstanding." A US District Court judge in Flagstaff failed to share their enthusiasm and sentenced them to a year's probation and ordered them to pay restitution. In The Arizona Republic.
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August 22, 2008
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