Posted on 10/08/2013 10:53:29 AM PDT by george76
Rangers issue a handful of citations over the weekend for alleged trespassing. The government shutdown closed the national park Oct. 1.
For months, Julie and Eugene Gillies of South Portland planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Bar Harbor.
They werent about to let a political fight in Congress get in the way of their plans to see Acadia National Park, which they visited on their honeymoon 34 years ago.
Riding on small motor scooters beneath a bright blue sky Sunday morning, the couple went around the barricades and past the sign declaring the park closed and joined what they estimated to be 1,000 other hikers and bicyclists heading out on the Park Loop Road toward Thunder Hole. Another couple from South Portland rode with them on scooters.
Their idyllic morning came to an abrupt end when they were surrounded by park rangers. The price for violating the parks closure order: a $100 fine for each member of the party.
I thought they were going to drive all of us to jail, said Julie Gillies, a mental health therapist. She said the rangers got angry when she asked them why her group was singled out.
It was the most embarrassing, intimidating thing ever, she said. I thought I was in a foreign country.
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Acadia, which typically gets about 285,000 visitors in October, is closed to the public just as the fall foliage season begins, potentially hurting the economy in Bar Harbor and the rest of Mount Desert Island.
More cruise ship visitors visit the park in October than in any other month
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
I was shocked by that as well. 10 percent would have been too much.
Que? No habla ingles
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Nice try. We can thank OMalley (Md) and Brown (Cal) for ‘allowing’ all to have a Drivers License, no matter what there status is.
They are probably voting anyway...
Way back when - (60’s/70’s/80’s) such villages as Chevy Chase MD etal were declaring themselves ‘Nuclear Free Zones’ AND allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections because they paid sales tax and county tax and state tax so it is only ‘fair’ to let them have a say in where the money was spent.
If I remember correctly the ‘majority’ just sat around and said ‘Oh well’!
Ok, I ‘poohpaawed’ it also BUT at least I was living in VA.
I guess it is ‘true’, taking NO action is as bad if not worse than acting.
Did they kill anyone’s dog? Because, until they start shooting family dogs, they’re not really serious...
Good idea.
As I wrote in my private reply, thanks for the history government schools left out.
Don’t have a clue as to why it would be pulled as accounts of recent Muslim activity make this seem like a clam bake.
Oh, how about a few million of us downloading bHo’s fake birth certificate from the SpiteHouse web site and using that to give Ranger Rick in his little boy pants.
I don’t like the SS tactics. But...not every visitor might come in peace. What happens if a bunch of thugs decides to invade an understaffed park to create destruction and mayhem?
To hell with “arguments.” The only point you need to make is “There are 1,000of us.”
Thanks so much. Sounds like a few modern John Malcolms could use the same therapy.
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If the government is shut down, who are these thugs posing as Park police?
Under whose authority are they operating because it certainly can’t be the shut down government?
A poll in need of FReeping
We’re screwed that so many would answer yes.
Today’s poll: Ticketing at Acadia
Do you agree with the National Park Service’s decision to ticket people for entering Acadia National Park during the federal shutdown?
Yes..........31%
No...........69%
Total Votes: 985
What is wrong with 30+% of the population?
I still say this is a test run to see what the feasibility is for imposing martial law.
Jury nullification should be the word.
Brown shirts in training.
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