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but methinks they overreacted in the penalty
Are you kidding?
Well-- no.
No jail time, no fines; just a year to stay out of the National Parks and cool off. My heart bleeds for them.
That would have been reasonable, but:
They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign.
- which I presume is the cost of bringing Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter back from the hereafter. Actually if that's the case it does seem cheap.
I've heard your sound clips. Isn't there an 'r' missing in the third word of your sign?
A fair point
But I can put one in for less than $3035
Hey, for that sum I'll make
ten signs that look just like the one in the story with
no errors, including shipping
When they say $3035 to replace the sign, is that with the same errors?
Reminds me of the Japanese factory that took an order from a US firm for parts and the client specified there be a limit of 5% defective parts; the factory filled the order and sent a separate package noted "here are your defective parts. We're not sure why you wanted them but you ordered them so we made them."
Defacement of public property, no question. But it should at least raise the question, why did it take vigilantism to fix an errant sign left unaddressed for seven decades?
I'm just amazed that considering the glaring errors exposed by the story, the buzz seems to be solely on criminal mischief, with nary a word on what should be a public embarrassment for having kept such a sign in place, so I see two stories here. If the sign itself is an artifact, there should be a sign referring to the sign- which could then explain the 'art' of textual misconduct.
Sluggo apparently values language over art