This is something kids have been doing for as long as I can remember.
And I’m old.
Back then the offender was reprimanded and the sign was corrected. Nobody thought to write a story about it.
These days, Arby's will likely be cutting a check to the SPLC or some other professional aggrievement organization for their penance.
“This is something kids have been doing for as long as I can remember.”
Yep. A sign for the Roman Legion was written over with, “Make wine, not war.” (In Latin, of course. Very literate kids, then. ;)
About 45 years ago, I did this kind of thing myself. The ruder and cruder words we could make, the funnier we thought it was.
When one got caught, there were consequences, but being that PC existed only in the minds of the diseased marxist intelligentsia in those days, the penalty was commensurate with the actual damages: a good chewing out. End of episode.
I feel sorry for kids nowadays... they are always under the socialist do-gooders' thumb and don't even know it.
It’s not just kids but immature grown men, too. Back in college, some summer enrolled coaches changed the names of the dorm buildings. Everyone laughed and that was that.