Vermont Prison Inmate Plays Good Practical Joke

Dave Bry
The Awl
Published in
1 min readFeb 3, 2012

“State officials Thursday pointed to the failure of the quality assurance office within the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop in St. Albans to detect a prisoner-artist’s addition made four years ago to the traditional state police logo. A spot on the shoulder of the cow in the state emblem was modified into a pig. An investigation has begun into how the computer program was improperly modified to insert the image, Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito said.”
Some thirty Vermont State police cars have been displaying the subtle joke of a clever prison inmate for the past four years. New decals are being produced (at a cost of 780 tax-payer dollars!) The pigs will be removed. What the fuzz have failed to notice, though, is how much the “O” in “Police” looks like a donut. [Via]

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Dave Bry
The Awl

I grew up in New Jersey. I live in New York. I write for the Awl, and also a book called Public Apology, for Grand Central Publishing.