Granny's a Ball Hog
Evidently no longer content to merely bark at passers-by to "stay off my lawn," Blue Ash, OH octogenarian Edna Jester was arrested last week after she allegedly refused to return a neighborhood boy's football that had landed in her yard.
Mrs. Jester (that isn't her in the picture. It's a cheap stock photo of an angry old woman) had tired of constantly retrieving the pigskin and threatened to keep the ball the next time it bounced into her property. When it did, she latched onto it like it was the last can of Ensure in the tri-state region and refused to give it back. Even when the police were called and informed her that she would be arrested if she didn't drop the ball, she still steadfastly held on to it. Police then had no choice but to book her. The arrest for petty theft is Mrs. Jester's first.
And she still has the ball.
This reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live (when it was worth watching)skit when she would do the same thing and say "it's mine now"! Anybody remember that??
Posted by: Ketielynn | 10/21/08 1:44PM
That neighbor should be ashamed of himself. Calling the cops on a lil ol lady for keeping a ball??? I would bet that she warned those boys more than once. And, if it's on her property, is it really theft? Because if that's the case, what's to stop them from tossing a piece of dog doo in there...if she throws it away, is it theft? Leave the poor lady alone, and keep your balls out of her yard!
Posted by: Marcie | 10/22/08 3:23PM