I miss the good old days

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 Capt. James Schaffer says there has been an ongoing dispute in the neighborhood over kids' balls landing in the woman's yard.

Arrested??!! Gimme a break. Back when I was a kid, if some old lady on our block had kept our football after repeatedly asking us not to play in her yard, my dad would have said: "I told you kids to stay outta there! That should teach you a lesson!"

And that would have been that. Sadder but wiser, we would have gone on to save up for another football and would have stopped playing in Mrs. Jester's yard.

Then we would have egged her house on Halloween.