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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Weirdo Charged With Defacing WWII Memorial

Posted on | August 15, 2026 | No Comments

That’s a photo Melissa Farris posted to Facebook five years ago, when she was 36 years old. Farris is reportedly from Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

She was arrested this week on federal charges after she vandalized the World War II memorial in D.C., pouring soap bubbles in the fountain and spray painting “Clean Hands Dirty $” on a wall of the memorial.

In a social media post, Farris claimed the motive of her vandalism was “to push my whistleblower case into the courtroom.” A quick scan of her social media revealed that, during the COVID pandemic, Farris understood to renovate an old school bus to live “off-grid.” A few days before being charged for vandalizing the memorial, Farris had been ticketed for illegal campaign after she parked the bus a few blocks from the memorial. As soon as I read the news report stating that Farris is 41 years old, my first thought was, “Man, that’s been a hard 41 years.”

Those images are from a video Farris posted to Facebook on Friday, basically confessing to her crime. And like I said, it’s been a hard 41 years. What sort of substances has she been abusing? Meth? Alcohol? Anything she can get her hands on? Can we all just agree that she’s been negligent in terms of her skin-care routine? However bad she looked with her nose piercing and pink hair as a plump 35-year-old, it was much better than her scrawny wrinkled 41-year-old face. And also, she’s crazy.

At some point after driving her blue “Forevertime” bus to D.C., Farris stood in front of the White House panhandling for “weed.”

Doesn’t she have family in Kentucky who care about her? One must assume that Farris has somehow become estranged and alienated from her family, which theory would explain a lot about her behavior. One incentive to live a respectable sort of life — sober, working, keeping regular habits — is to maintain good relationships with others. If you start doing drugs, dyeing your hair weird colors and living “off-grid,” you’re not likely to be on friendly terms with those of your relatives and neighbors who do live respectably. Instead, you’ll be associating with other similarly alienated types, who encourage your disreputable behavior. After this pattern continues a while, bad things will happen.

How does someone become “homeless,” after all? Contemplating the problem of homelessness, many Americans who live “paycheck to paycheck” are tempted to think that we are just one misfortune away from being in such a situation ourselves. However, when we investigate the actual circumstances of the homeless, we discover that it is not mere bad luck that explains the problem. The vast majority of the homeless population are either mentally ill or addicted to drugs, or both. Many of them are, in fact, habitual criminals who ended up on the streets after being released from prison, and couldn’t find anyone — not their parents, not their siblings — willing to take them in. Bad behavior causes broken relationships, and this is the real “moral of the story” for the rest of us, if we don’t want to end up on the streets. We ought to live in such a way as to endear ourselves to others: “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable,” as Ben Franklin said. That means doing basic things, like getting up in the morning and going to work. It means things like being honest, sober and respectful of others, avoiding wrath and envy.

Something I’ve told my kids is, don’t hang around trash. You are a decent person from a good family, therefore certainly you should be able to find friendship among respectable people. My own father used to scold me in my youth about associating with hoodlums and ne’er-do-wells. Although some of those hoodlum buddies actually grew up to be respectable folks, with the benefit of hindsight, I have a deep appreciation for my father’s wisdom in this matter. Everybody wants to have friends, and friendship is necessary in life, but rebellious youth will choose other rebels as their companions, and this usually leads to trouble.

Most of us are capable of learning from these experiences — which is why some of us erstwhile hoodlums eventually become respectable — but others are more persistent in the pattern of bad behavior and bad associations, and that’s how Melissa Farris ended up in D.C., crazy as hell, making national news for vandalizing the WWII Memorial.

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!



 

Category: Crime, Kentucky

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