A New Jersey man has been arrested and extradited to New Hampshire for carving QAnon graffiti into a rock formation at a tourism site, the Union Leader reported on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Read story here.
“Mark Russo, 50, was charged with one count of felony criminal mischief after carving phrases into a rock tablet with a power tool at ‘America’s Stonehenge’ site,” according to police. “Investigators also found a note … that said ‘U where (sic) warned not to drink the blood, but children, to get high! These people are sick/ these people are stupid,'” CNN said. Uh, yeah.
Exactly what Russo (mugshot, left) vandalized isn’t clear. Touted as “ancient,” the site’s archaeological provenance is dubious (read about it here). As a roadside attraction, it’s less impressive than the fanciful one that novelist Tom Robbins wrote about here. What’s clear, though, is the property — whatever it is — doesn’t belong to Russo, and he had no right to deface it with the nutty slogans of a false conspiracy theory. He did, however, accurately describe himself.