Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls Of Stupid
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_re_us/odd_football_charge
BLUE ASH, Ohio - Police in Ohio say an 89-year-old woman is facing a charge of petty theft because neighborhood children accuse her of refusing to give back their football. Edna Jester was arrested last week in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash. Police say one child's father complained that Jester kept the youngsters' ball after it landed in her yard. Police Capt. James Schaffer says there has been an ongoing dispute in the neighborhood over kids' balls landing in the woman's yard. Jester said Monday she has received many calls and didn't have time to discuss the matter any more. Jester is to appear in court next month. The maximum penalty for a petty theft conviction in Ohio is six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com
CHANGE FOR A BUCK?
So, my grandparents were murdered in 2001. There was also the attack on the Twin Towers the same year. Along with these happenings, there's been horrible crimes committed so often, and THIS is the best the police force can accomplish? Didn't it use to be a rule that when something landed on an old persons lawn, it was no longer yours? I seem to remember them yelling, "GET OFF MY LAWN!" and I often thought that was a rule. I've lost balls, and toys...I tried to lose my sister the same way, but it just didn't work. Anyway, first of all, who are you going to believe? A bunch of neighborhood kids who may hate the women because she gives out apples at Halloween, or an 89 year old woman, who's been around much MUCH longer?
Exactly.
How do you know these little brats aren't just screwing around? And I wanna know something. What kind of ball was it? I think the penalty should go along with the size of the ball. Well heck, if we're going to stoop this low to arrest someone because we can't find real criminals and we have to pretend we feel safer somehow, then there may as well be rules to the thing just as there would be with any other crime. That being said, if it's a red basketball shaped ball, I could see six months. But I think the bigger the ball, the longer the sentence, and the smaller the ball, the shorter the sentence. That means if a basketball is six months, then a baseball or tennis ball would be about 3 months, and a ping pong ball would be 1 month, and a marble would be about 2 weeks. But this was a football, which was shaped oddly. So it's a bit trickier.
The only true thing I can say about this is it was reported by The Enquirer. Lemme just say state my problem with this now, like we all have a choice, right? Okay, so there's Fox News, which....well it isn't news, but then there's something like CNN or 60 Minutes. In depth coverage and shit like that. Let me compare them. While CNN or 60 Minutes does in depth coverage or something like, oh I don't know, the latest terrorists trial-complete with footage of his family explaining how he got to be the way he is and him sitting alone in his cell wondering why he did what he did-The Enquirer does stories like, oh I don't know, some guy gets his arm bitten off by a shark and falls in love with a beautiful woman who is a millionare, so now he has tons of money, a supermodel wife, and a new state of the art mechanical arm. The reason people watch The Enquirer story is because, as I believe I previously stated in an entry, Americans don't like to think when they watch things on television. Books are thought processes, where as TV is viewed more as escapism.
All I'm saying is things aren't the way they should be these days. If a woman can be taken away for keeping a football, then a football player should be taken away everytime he tackles a player. Everything has rules. Even decomposing old people.
m@rk wil@nd
BLUE ASH, Ohio - Police in Ohio say an 89-year-old woman is facing a charge of petty theft because neighborhood children accuse her of refusing to give back their football. Edna Jester was arrested last week in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash. Police say one child's father complained that Jester kept the youngsters' ball after it landed in her yard. Police Capt. James Schaffer says there has been an ongoing dispute in the neighborhood over kids' balls landing in the woman's yard. Jester said Monday she has received many calls and didn't have time to discuss the matter any more. Jester is to appear in court next month. The maximum penalty for a petty theft conviction in Ohio is six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com
CHANGE FOR A BUCK?
So, my grandparents were murdered in 2001. There was also the attack on the Twin Towers the same year. Along with these happenings, there's been horrible crimes committed so often, and THIS is the best the police force can accomplish? Didn't it use to be a rule that when something landed on an old persons lawn, it was no longer yours? I seem to remember them yelling, "GET OFF MY LAWN!" and I often thought that was a rule. I've lost balls, and toys...I tried to lose my sister the same way, but it just didn't work. Anyway, first of all, who are you going to believe? A bunch of neighborhood kids who may hate the women because she gives out apples at Halloween, or an 89 year old woman, who's been around much MUCH longer?
Exactly.
How do you know these little brats aren't just screwing around? And I wanna know something. What kind of ball was it? I think the penalty should go along with the size of the ball. Well heck, if we're going to stoop this low to arrest someone because we can't find real criminals and we have to pretend we feel safer somehow, then there may as well be rules to the thing just as there would be with any other crime. That being said, if it's a red basketball shaped ball, I could see six months. But I think the bigger the ball, the longer the sentence, and the smaller the ball, the shorter the sentence. That means if a basketball is six months, then a baseball or tennis ball would be about 3 months, and a ping pong ball would be 1 month, and a marble would be about 2 weeks. But this was a football, which was shaped oddly. So it's a bit trickier.
The only true thing I can say about this is it was reported by The Enquirer. Lemme just say state my problem with this now, like we all have a choice, right? Okay, so there's Fox News, which....well it isn't news, but then there's something like CNN or 60 Minutes. In depth coverage and shit like that. Let me compare them. While CNN or 60 Minutes does in depth coverage or something like, oh I don't know, the latest terrorists trial-complete with footage of his family explaining how he got to be the way he is and him sitting alone in his cell wondering why he did what he did-The Enquirer does stories like, oh I don't know, some guy gets his arm bitten off by a shark and falls in love with a beautiful woman who is a millionare, so now he has tons of money, a supermodel wife, and a new state of the art mechanical arm. The reason people watch The Enquirer story is because, as I believe I previously stated in an entry, Americans don't like to think when they watch things on television. Books are thought processes, where as TV is viewed more as escapism.
All I'm saying is things aren't the way they should be these days. If a woman can be taken away for keeping a football, then a football player should be taken away everytime he tackles a player. Everything has rules. Even decomposing old people.
m@rk wil@nd