Typos – the bane of every blogger, student and editor’s existence.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than having a professor or overly critical reader call you out on a misplaced comma, misspelled word or misused diction. No one can escape the scrutinizing eye of a “Typo Nazi” – not even the United States government.

The Associated Press reports (via WAVY):

A Virginia man and his friend have been banned from national parks for one year for defacing a historic marker at the Grand Canyon because it had a typo.

 

Authorities say Benjamin Douglas Herson of Virginia Beach and Jeff Michael Deck of Somerville, Massachusetts, went around the country this year removing typographical errors from public signs.

 

Investigators learned of the vandalism from an Internet site operated by Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League.

That’s right – Dec and Herson are not alone.

There’s an entire “league” of typo hunters out there, and they’re reading everything you write, making sure you dot every ‘I’ and cross every ‘T’.

Be afraid.