Mess around and find out, huh?
Our good friend on Not the Bee, "Pattie Gonia," (who we have covered here, here, and here) got himself and a friend into big trouble.
Pattie Gonia decided to get a bunch of friends together in May, including park rangers, and drape the "largest trans flag in a National Park" without any kind of permission.
So the young lady - sorry - the young "they/them" was canned for breaking the rules.
From ABC News:
Shannon 'SJ' Joslin, a ranger and biologist who studies bats, said [she] hung a 66-foot wide transgender pride flag on the famous climbing wall that looms over the California park's main thoroughfare for about two hours on May 20 before taking it down voluntarily. A termination letter they received last week accused Joslin of 'failing to demonstrate acceptable conduct' in [her] capacity as a biologist and cited the May incident.
'I was really hurting because there were a lot of policies coming from the current administration that target trans people, and I'm nonbinary,' Joslin, 35, told The Associated Press, adding that hanging the flag was their [her] way of saying, 'We're all safe in national parks.'
Two other park rangers were part of this scheme. They were both placed on leave while an investigation is conducted.
But wait, it gets even better!
Park officials on Tuesday said they were working with the U.S. Justice Department to pursue visitors and workers who violated restrictions on demonstrations at the park that had more than 4 million visitors last year.
The agencies 'are pursuing administrative action against several Yosemite National Park employees and possible criminal charges against several park visitors who are alleged to have violated federal laws and regulations related to demonstrations,' National Park Service spokesperson Rachel Pawlitz said.
I knew there were a lot of pie-in-the-sky possibilities that came along with reelecting Donald Trump president, but Pattie Gonia going to jail was not even possible in my wildest dreams.
We're getting things we didn't even know we voted for!
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