Thought the one in Detroit was acutally quite clever. They covered up the word "Don't" in "Don't believe in God". LOL..at least it showed imagination and a bit of intelligence. It also shows that there were enough passers by that a lot of people saw the sign before it was vandalized. People remember written words more than spoken ones, remember? For it to take enough time for someone to come up with the clever idea of covering up the single letter to make it say something totally different, wouldn't that mean that there was plenty of time for motorist or pedestrians to see the original saying? Now, vandalism of public property of any kind is wrong. Period. Against the law. Those athiests paid good money to put up that billboard. They had a First Amendment right to have it put there! There were guys who climbed up there, or worked on the bus sign, and put a lot of work into putting it up. They probably took great pride in their jobs and looked at it as a good days work. So it was IMO wrong. So...those guys (the people who had the billboards and bus ads put up) must understand how it felt for the indigenous peoples of Western Europe when their temples and sacred groves were destroyed by those who disagreed with their personal beliefs. They must know how Roman and Greek people felt when statues of their deities were toppled and crushed by intolerant people who thought they were right and everyone else was wrong. They must feel the same sort of fear and sadness that people of France and Germany felt when the Inquisition and its represenatives wiped out entire villages simply because they thought that they were evil or backward because they would not accept beliefs that were being forced upon them. They must have some sort of feeling of how it feels when one person or one group of people try to tell them how to raise their children or tell them that teaching them, or exposing them, to the beliefs of their parents and ancestors, is wrong and stupid. Those guys probably want to stand up and declare the obvious; that the vandalism was wrong and that they have the right to believe what they want to without the fear of someone doing such a cruel and terrible thing. Those guys probably want justice brought upon the people who committed such an act.. or at least tolerance