Lyons Jewelers in Bedford closes to protest Barack Obama's election victory

November 8, 2012 - 11:18 am

Mitt Romney's loss to President Barack Obama in Tuesday's presidential election was apparently too much for a western Virginia jewelry store.

: President Obama was elected to a second term in office on Tuesday. Photo: Associated Press

According to WDBJ-TV in Bedford, Lyons Jewelers, a jewelry shop on Longwood Avenue in Bedford, kept its doors closed Wednesday. The owners did it as a political statement; to "mourn the loss of America."

Signs posted in windows throughout Lyons bemoaned Obama's victory.

"He (did) it to show that he didn't agree and didn't like what happened," a friend of the store's owner told WDBJ.

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