Did McCain's mother move to Blue Ash, Ohio??

BLUE ASH – An 89-year-old woman arrested for not giving neighborhood children their football back after it landed repeatedly in her yard said today she'll return the ball.


But not right away.

"That's my only way of getting through to these children," Edna Jester said. "I'll give it back to them later, but not right now."

Jester was arrested and charged with petty theft after she took the ball and refused to give it back, Blue Ash police said. Word of her arrest has touched off national news interest in the case.

Officers were called about 6:30 p.m. Thursday to her home in the 4900 block of Myrtle Avenue by one of the children’s fathers, Blue Ash Police Capt. James Schaffer said.

The football apparently was thrown into Jester’s yard, and it wasn’t the first time, he said. The issue has been an ongoing dispute in the neighborhood, he said.

When police asked Jester to return the ball to the children, she refused. They warned her twice she would be charged if she did not cooperate, Schaffer said. They tried to give her a citation, but she refused to sign for it, he said.

Left with no other choice, he said, officers placed her in the back of a cruiser, took her to the police station and booked her, he said. Schaffer said Jester told police to handcuff her but they refused.



(more at link)

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081020/NEWS01/310200028

she has collected 10 of their balls. Sure avoiding going into her yard alright. She's lived there since 1949 she has more senority. And the father of the kid says I've mowed her lawn for free. How nice of him to mow an 89 year old's lawn for free. They needed to play where their balls did not keep going into her yard. The number of 10 tells a bigger story.

At 89 that is probably the only joy she gets out of life to work in her garden and plant things and I bet those balls have broken many of her plants. I'd get mad too.

How do you know the balls broke or hurt anything? If you want to leap to conclusions why not leap to the conclusion that she gets pleasure out of taking the balls from the children. That's just as likely. And footballs are expensive.

Would you rather the kids just go inside and play video games instead?

Now if 10 balls came into my yard and I gave all back but three I probably was upset at what the balls were doing when they entered my yard.

What if (another if) she is very strapped for money. If the balls were destroying her plants and she had to keep replacing them would be difficult for her.

It would make me upset IF that was the case. But because we do not have the whole story why think she is just an old grump.

I know what I have said is a leap but there are two sides to every story and I thought she needed someone on her side until and unless we know more of why she did it. She did not share why.

If almost a dozen balls landed in my yard from kids playing in the street I would tell them to play at the park.

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"Tanis said she has kept about 10 balls – basketballs and soccer balls – belonging to his children that went into her yard. Jester said she has kept only three."