Reader Zach Sparer sent us this image from a station pylon inside Farragut North Metro. Something’s clearly not right here. Since when is the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metro station called “Zoological Park”? And what about “Tenley Circle”?

Those are actually the original names of those Metro stations, but Metro currently has no plans to change any of them back, Metro spokesperson Steven Taubenkibel assures DCist. Metro suspects a vandal is at work in this case.

“It looks like somebody or someone may have removed the adhesive or did something with the pylon,” Taubenkibel said. “All the other pylons (in the Farragut North station) have the correct, normal names.”

Taubenkibel explained that when the station pylons were first installed, the original names of the stations were permanently printed on them. Several names on the Red line, such as Zoological Park, Tenley Circle, and Nicholson Lane, were replaced by their current names, Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan, Tenleytown-AU, and White Flint, before the stations even opened in the late 1970s. What’s happened with this single pylon in the center of the Farragut North station is that someone managed to yank off the overlaying sign, which was applied with a strong adhesive.

Metro has already sent a maintenance crew to fix the sign today.