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Stop at Olympic National Park, get $125 ticket
The News Tribune (Tacoma WA) ^ | 10/15/2013

Posted on 10/15/2013 3:44:35 PM PDT by llevrok

PORT ANGELES, WASH. — People who pulled into a ranger station at Olympic National Park over the weekend were given $125 tickets for "violation of closure" — entering the park during the government shutdown.

Three of the cars were a group of international students from Peninsula College led by host Kelly Sanders, a teacher from Port Angeles, the Peninsula Daily News reported Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1bU12WZ ).

They pulled off Highway 101 at Lake Crescent, got out and posed for a picture behind the Storm King Ranger Station when Ranger Jennifer Jackson pulled up and wrote all three drivers tickets. Each carries the $125 fine.

The students from Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China were puzzled, Sanders said.

"I didn't know how to explain it to them because I can't really understand why all this happened myself," Sanders said Monday.

"I know they were surprised that we would get a ticket for trying to go for a hike."

The driveway into the Storm King lot was partially blocked by orange road cones and a sandwich board with a sign stuck to it with duct tape reading, "Because of the federal government shutdown, this National Park Service facility is closed," Sanders said.

"It was a really wide opening —wide enough I could get my car through easily," said Leanne Potts of Sequim, who also received a $125 citation from Jackson.

Potts set out that morning for a hike up the Mount Storm King Trail with her friend, Laura Clemons.

"If I knew I was going to get a ticket, I probably wouldn't have gone in there," she said.

Both Potts and Sanders were confused by the wording on the sign.

"When I think of facilities, I think of buildings or bathrooms or features or something," Potts said.

"I just assumed that it meant the bathrooms were closed, not that I would be breaking the law," Sanders said.

Ranger Jackson was sympathetic and said she wasn't being paid during the shutdown.

"She said she was just doing her job," Sanders said of Jackson. "I understand that she thought that was her job. It just seemed a little excessive."

"She did say, 'Feel free to complain. We welcome your complaints,'" Potts said.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: sgutdown; shutdown
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To: smokingfrog

I will now have lost any respect for these ranger types I may have had in the past.
They are behaving like thugs.

These are OUR parks and monuments. The govt DOESN’T OWN them; we do.
This really angers me. We need to channel our outrage and work against any Demorat candidate at the lowest local levels.


21 posted on 10/15/2013 4:10:23 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Under the Democrats; the Lincoln Memorial is closed; but the southern border is open)
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To: llevrok

Trees, squirrels and the view are now considered facilities. Just another ranger making things difficult for the taxpayer. Ranger Witch intentionally set the cones far enough apart for vehicles to enter and picked up a new ticket pad just for such as this. The more money a park generates, the more money they get the following year’s budget. If they can’t generate money from entry fees, they’ll generate money from tickets via We the People trespassing upon We the People’s lands.


22 posted on 10/15/2013 4:12:08 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: tpmintx

Did you mean Woodie Guthrie????

Arlo’s father did that song....


23 posted on 10/15/2013 4:14:08 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: Timber Rattler

Would rip this ticket up and throw it on the ground in front of this bitch.


24 posted on 10/15/2013 4:15:47 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Evil must be punished.)
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To: llevrok

The people of the government, by the government and for the government shall not prosper on his Earth.
- Barack Obama.


25 posted on 10/15/2013 4:16:10 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: elkfersupper
I only have two words for these tree cops and I won’t repeat them here.

could those two words be "Clear" and "Cut" ?

26 posted on 10/15/2013 4:16:11 PM PDT by llevrok (Democrats are LAW-LESS because the GOP is Ball-Less)
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To: llevrok

Ranger Jackson - Twerk.


27 posted on 10/15/2013 4:20:29 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: llevrok
The students from Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China

Well there you go, they were here legally, What the hell were they thinking
coming here Legally! No wonder Obama fined them.

28 posted on 10/15/2013 4:21:14 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: llevrok
"I didn't know how to explain it to them because I can't really understand why all this happened myself," Sanders said Monday.

Say what I say: "We lost a war."

29 posted on 10/15/2013 4:21:39 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: llevrok

On another thread I mentioned I had some difficult issues with a NPS cop and noted so did others, long before the shutdown.

What I’d like to add, from my experience then is the NPS does not have a LEO chain of command like the FBI and other professional police agencies.

Park cops report to the park superintendent, who reports to the regional director. Couple this with the fact the NPS was overun with tree hugger type leftists beginning in the 90’s that are now in upper management positions, and just what else can be expected?

They are not professional cops, they are leftist goons gleefully following any order given that makes someone elses life miserable.


30 posted on 10/15/2013 4:21:55 PM PDT by redfreedom (Republicans = The faux conservative wing of the democrat party.)
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To: llevrok
""She said she was just doing her job,""

Oh shut up Ranger Jackson. Do something productive and find Yogi Bear and Boo Boo a picnic basket.

31 posted on 10/15/2013 4:23:21 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: llevrok

32 posted on 10/15/2013 4:26:19 PM PDT by traumer
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To: llevrok
could those two words be "Clear" and "Cut" ?

Nope.

33 posted on 10/15/2013 4:27:07 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: llevrok

I wonder what fine you’ll get if you light the ticket on fire and drop it in front of them.


34 posted on 10/15/2013 4:27:08 PM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
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To: traumer

She was just FOLLOWING ORDERS !


35 posted on 10/15/2013 4:27:47 PM PDT by traumer
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To: kingu

If you rip up the ticket and throw it in a trash can you’ll get another ticket for “Unlawful Use of Government Trash Containers”.


36 posted on 10/15/2013 4:28:47 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: HereInTheHeartland
We need to channel our outrage and work against any Demorat candidate at the lowest local levels.

Look at your local city council to see if you can find any party affiliation attached to them.
Odds are that you can't because that's how the Libs infect our cities and counties.

37 posted on 10/15/2013 4:30:17 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: traumer

OMgosh, It’s PAT!


38 posted on 10/15/2013 4:31:30 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: llevrok

“Ranger Jackson was sympathetic and said she wasn’t being paid during the shutdown.”

If she’s not being paid, why is she there and what authority does she have? She’s just another unemployed smuck as far as I can see.


39 posted on 10/15/2013 4:32:22 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: kingu; Vermont Lt

Then fire up a Zippo lighter on it.


40 posted on 10/15/2013 4:32:55 PM PDT by jimjohn
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