Via ABC News:
Call them the shut-down rebels: Individuals, businesses, cities and state agencies that are defying federal orders to shut down and go home. They are taking a page from the playbook of veterans who last week ignored “closed” signs at the WWII Memorial and–figuratively speaking—jumped the barricades.
In North Carolina, Bruce O’Connell on Friday defied U.S. Park Service orders telling him to close down his inn and restaurant. O’Connell and his 90-year-old mother own the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway southwest of Asheville. Though the Inn is private, it sits on federal park land and is thus subject to Park Service orders.
When the government pronounced the park closed and last week ordered him to close up shop at the height of the fall foliage season, O’Connell at first complied and closed.
Then, though, he started getting angry.
Some news reports say it was the example of the rebellious veterans that prompted him to act, but he tells ABC News it was something more.