Kicker: Spell check street

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s one thing for an editor to mark something in red, you fix the problem, no one’s the wiser. But what happens when you work in paint?

Welp, sometimes some really un-cool things.

See, a town in Massachusetts hired someone to paint a warning on the street to let drivers know they’re coming near a school. So the painter purposed to spell out S-C-H-O-O-L.

All the letters accounted for. Just in the wrong order.

He painted “S-H-C-O-O-L” Shh, cool. Not cool.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: No!

EICHER: So, what do you think? Repent and repaint? Or just leave it.

REICHARD: As a lawyer I say leaving it is sh-cool and unusual punishment.

EICHER: She said it.

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