Via Kennebec Journal:
For months, Julie and Eugene Gillies had planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Bar Harbor.
The South Portland couple wasn’t 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 skirted around the barricades and past the sign declaring the park closed and joined what they estimated to be about 1,000 other hikers and bicyclists heading up the Loop Road toward Thunder Hole. Another couple from South Portland traveled with them, also on scooters.
Their idyllic morning came to an abrupt end when they were surrounded by park rangers. The price for violating the park’s closure order: $100 tickets for each member of the party.
“I thought they were going to drive all of us into jail,” said Julie Gillies, a mental health therapist. She said rangers became angry after she asked them why they were singled out. “It was the most embarrassing, intimidating thing ever. I thought I was in a foreign country.”
H/T MarathonPundit