Woman, 89, famous for keeping boy's football, sues

[The Goddess]

An 89-year-old Cincinnati area woman famously arrested for holding on to a neighbor kid's football is now suing the boy's parents. The lawsuit filed by Edna Jester's attorney in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court claims she has suffered emotional distress because the next-door family's footballs and other playthings keep landing in her yard.
Jester refused to give back a football in October, was taken to the police station in suburban Blue Ash and charged with petty theft. The prosecutor later dropped the case.

The lawsuit against parents Paul and Kelly Tanis seeks unspecified monetary damages.

Kelly Tanis called the suit "very silly" but says she and her husband also worry because they have five children and can't afford a lawyer.

[gigman]

Mean old bitch.

[The Goddess]

How the hell does a football in your yard cause emotional distress?

[Angeleyes]

WTF? Sounds like some of my neighbors.

[StoneTheCrow]

What's even scarier is the fact that crazy ol' bitch could win,sillier cases than that have gone to court and been won.

[gigman]

How the hell does a football in your yard cause emotional distress?I hate neighbors like that. I had one that was neighbor from hell. I know what it's like. Almost got into a fight with one once because my youngest was swinging on his swing set next to my fence. My son was only about 4 at the time. What an asshole he was.

[Mrs.S]

She's from a different time when neighborhood kids showed a little respect.

[Stormcrow]

She's from a different time when neighborhood kids showed a little respect.

The thing is though, if you're playing ball in your back yard, the ball will end up in the neighbors yard. There is nothing for it.

So I wonder, in this time of respect you speak of, did children just not play ball?

[gigman]

She's from a different time when neighborhood kids showed a little respect.Maybe the old bitch just hates kids.