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From Breitbart/AP comes news of an 89-year-old woman who is facing charges because of some meddling kids.

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 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.

Kids these days eh? When I was a little shaver, and believe you me I had a lot of experience with this sort of thing, there was a clear protocol. If you were the one responsible for the ball ending up in the evil neighbor’s yard, it was your responsibility to stealthily hop the fence and retrieve the ball. If the evil neighbor caught you in the act accosted you, tied your hands, took you to the dungeon and fed you to the captive crocodiles, so be it. You had to take that chance.

No calling the police, no accusations of theft. Hey, who screwed up here, the kids or the 89-year-old woman?