Spot the typo on “No Trespassing” signs across Miami Beach

Can a typo get you out of an arrest? Nicely, most likely not.

• However it might make you chuckle if you discover that a number of “No Trespassing” indicators posted at buildings throughout Miami Seashore comprise a tiny error that may change the which means of the strict warning.

What’s occurring: As an alternative of referring to Florida’s physique of legal legal guidelines, the city-funded indicators threaten to arrest trespassers beneath “Florida Statues.”

Background: The Miami Seashore Police Division prints the indicators and provides them to any property proprietor who desires one.

What they’re saying: Whereas the vast majority of them do not seem to comprise the error, an older batch with the error appears to have been printed in some unspecified time in the future, officer Ernesto Rodriguez tells Axios.

• That batch is now not being distributed, and officers will substitute any flawed indicators they spot as soon as extra indicators are printed, Rodriguez says.

BTW: h/t to Miami lawyer David Winker, who first identified the typo on Twitter in February.

Since then, I’ve noticed round 10 of them from North to South Seashore.

• There’s one hanging exterior the CVS the place the chainsaw scene from “Scarface” was filmed on Ocean Drive.
• And some extra exterior the Lincoln Eatery and Macy’s off Lincoln Highway.
• I even discovered one exterior my residence constructing.