Posted on 01/01/2009 2:02:45 PM PST by Daffynition
An 89-year-old Cincinnati-area woman arrested for confiscating the neighbor kid's football is now suing the boy's parents. Edna Jester filed a lawsuit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court claiming she has suffered emotional distress because footballs and other playthings belonging to her next-door neighbors keep landing in her yard.
In October, Jester refused to return a football, was taken to the Blue Ash police station 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 calls the suit "very silly" but says she and her husband also worry because they have five children and can't afford a lawyer.
This old hag sounds like a waste of carbon.
Then teach your kids to stay off other people's property, it's that simple.
It really irks me that parents today just let their kids run wild and neglect to teach them such things as basic manners, respect for other people's property and how to behave in public such as at a restaurant.
I'm not saying my kids are perfect, but they stay off the neighbors lawns and out of their yards, will ring the doorbell and ASK to retrieve something if it's flown into their yards, and don't run around restaurants raising all kinds of hell while other people are trying to eat in peace.
I mean geez, what the hell is this world coming to when parents instill in their kids that they can act with impunity then harass an old lady because their own kids don't know how to behave?
No wonder this country voted for Obama. (heavy sigh....)
Why? She is a home owner who is entitled to what she wants in her own yard. IMHO it is disrespectiful of people not to make sure that their kids don’t bother the neighbors.
If something lands in your yard, it’s yours, yet Barney Fife hauls you in anyway.
Cops and lawyers are out of control.
Damn' straight. Bingo.
Crotchety old bee atch.
I came home one day and the neighbor’s kids were waiting by my gate. Their football had ended up behind my fence and they wouldn’t go into the yard without permission.
There are still good kids out there. That was awhile ago, one of them is now at West Point.
Did the kids have permission to into Grumpess' yard to get their stuff? Maybe they were told to stay out of her yard.
Au contraire ... where’s teaching the kids personal responsibility and respect for others’ and their property .... the parents deserve a wake-up call IMHO...and they’re getting one.
It was a FOOTBALL. Kick that sucker, it might just fly across the fence, or property boundary.
then harass an old lady because their own kids don't know how to behave?
How do you even know that's the case just from this article? The Grumpess probably told them to stay out of her yard, so if a football flies over there, they can't retrieve it. And she's mean enough just to take the ball and not return it.
Sounds like a whole lot of history between these neighbors and we don't know the half of it from this one article.
The old lady just sounds like a meanie who is just old enough to forget what children are like, and I usually side with the old folks.
What is that: the finder / keeper statue ?
So if you accidentally drive your car into my yard when you get a flat tire and leave it there to go get help. I get to keep it? Cool
Cops and lawyers are out of control.
Concur: Way out of control
This old lady is a frickin loser. As the freeper said, a total waste of carbon.
At 89 she needs to take responsibilty for her life and stop blaming her parents
Since she didn’t take the football from the neighbor’s possession, she didn’t commit petty theft. I’d be suing the police department for false arrest and putting up a sign warning that any unauthorized items from the neighbors would be turned over to either the police or to a charity, if permission wasn’t courteously requested for retrieval.
The kids were 6, 8 and 9 years old.
I told them to go home.
The 9 year old looked at me and said "Our mom said we could play here."
The kids were jumping off my patio table, down three stairs to the lower deck and landing in a portable sandbox. Any one of them could've gotten seriously hurt.
I phoned the mother and told her to come pick up her children, they were not welcome in my yard when no one was home.
She apparently didn't care that no one was home, nor that her kids were unsupervised and had apparently been playing in my yard and on my deck for several hours according to one neighbor. My yard is about an acre, the kids had to walk across 4 yards (about 4 acres) to get to my house.
When the mother refused (REFUSED!) to pick up the kids and didn't see the danger of their playing near my house unsupervised, I took them by the hand and walked them home. One of them was kicking and screaming the entire way.
When I got them home, the mother came out screaming that I had laid a hand on her children and she called the county sheriff.
Thankfully the county sheriff had the good sense to see what was going on, that the woman was a complete lunatic, and told her to keep her children under supervision.
It helped that I also know the sheriff's deputies out here, but not everyone has that luxury.
The bottom line is, parenting seems to be a lost skill. Kids run around and do whatever they want, and the parents seemingly always defend the kids.
Last word: anyone who reads this and gets offended, maybe you should be. You're probably the type of parent that's causing the problem with today's youth and their lack of responsibility & accountability. Shape up.
Sounds like a wake up call for mom and dad. They may have a cranky neighbor because she is tired of their kids not respecting her property....
IMO these parents need to teach their kids respect for other people and their property.
It is too bad it all had to come to this.....
No, the kids’ parents sound like the bad guys here - for having the lady arrested and for not teaching their kids to be mindful of the neighbor’s property.
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