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.
I'd be a mean bitch too, if I were arrested under the same circumstances she was.
Me trust the media? Did you read how many times I posted there's not enough info in this article about the history of these neighbors?
You can go back to your nap now.
Or as my family saw, they come to get the soccer ball and take one of your kids’ toys in the process or come over to pick up something and bring their dogs along, and then get upset when you’re upset you open the door and find a snarling dog on the other side.
AND the Lawyer who more than likely talked her into it.
Who in turn filed a civil lawsuit against the parents who have five children to support and some of those children actually play with a football as children have done for many generations. Oh the horrors. What if that thing landed in your yard? You should call a lawyer!
All of this, including the snarling dog, was in the article we're talking about?
Drop the hysteria, it's unbecoming. I'm not the type to give a crap if a kid's football lands in my yard. But you've been around FR long enough to know how the media works. Do you really think you are getting the whole story? I'm sure there's a lot of bad blood on both sides that was leading up to this. Honestly, they all sound like a bunch of jerks, but being a jerk is not grounds for getting arrested. It seems that you are OK with the arrest, is that true?
Anyone who would have an 89-year-old neighbor arrested over a football would also be happy to sue her if one of their kids got hurt on her property. If the old lady doesn’t put a stop to it, she is risking her money on people who are mean to old people. What choice does she have?
“The suit is seeking monetary damages after Jester says she repeatedly asked the Tanis family to stay off her property. The suit says the Tanises not only ignored that request but encouraged their children to go onto Jester’s property without her consent.”
Did I address this maybe 7 times already? Could be you are just slow.
I have also already said I come from a different social structure. I grew up on many acres of family land surrounded by ...well, relatives. If there was a problem with kids, which there were very few, since the pre-abortion age people seemed to tolerate children, the parents talked to each other and it got fixed. People didn't resort to stealing property, having people arrested and then filing lawsuits.
As you said, and I said many times before you, there's not a lot of info in this article. Obviously there's some history between these two neighbors that's missing.
OK.
That sounds like where I live. Some of this stuff is just foreign. No wonder everybody is in a bad mood.
I have one of these pinheads in my neighorhood. SHe’s referred to as the yard nazi. Its amazing to me that she can be this nuts about grass, even the small strip between sidwalk and street. Once took possesion of a little girls big wheel that was left on this strip of grass near her house. This is the sweetest little girl I’ve ever met. A real joy to be around. Its a dammed shame his b$$TCH gets to act this way.
“I said go ahead and arrest me. Handcuff me if you’d like, because I said I’m not guilty of anything,” said Jester.
"I came to my conclusions from the limited info in the article . ."
I would have thought someone with your circumspective skills would not have come to a conclusion; rather, that the limited info was suggestive. Dramatically different sense of assessment.
As to going back to my nap, I will, insofar as there is clearly no reason to do otherwise.
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My parents raised me to respect other peoples’ property, but that didn’t stop us from accidentally kicking our kickball over the fence into a neighbor’s yard probably hundreds or thousands of times... you can teach a kid all you want, and they can respect others’ property more than anyone else in the world, but nobody is born with the perfect hand-eye coordination and athletic skills required to make a ball go exactly where they want it. Occasional balls and toys in your yard is a normal result of living next to active, healthy kids who aren’t getting their minds turned into mush by their TV/computer/video games every day.
In this case, I think the parents started it by having her arrested for keeping the football, but I couldn’t imagine why she wouldn’t be around for the kids to just be able to knock on her door and ask to retrieve their football. Unless they were actually intentionally throwing things into her yard just for kicks, not allowing them into her yard (if she was worried about them, she could have just told them it was OK only if they were with a parent) would be pretty unreasonable.
No, my personal experience.
LOL Perfect pic for the story.
LOL! Yep, it cuts both ways. She is 89 and I think I would have just let it go and cut all ties rather than have her arrested. I think maybe she overreacted keeping their football and they subsequently responded with some major overkill in having her arrested. People can be so petty and shallow sometimes. A man was shot in the back 5 times by an elderly man here, while on his riding mower, for a dispute about as petty. Crazy world, it is.
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