Football-stealing granny gets a pass

She reminds me of the miserable ugly old prune we had living on our block. She would scream at us for playing ball in the street on Saturday or riding our bikes past her house. God forbid a ball went in our yard, we never were allowed to get it. She bragged about all her friends too, and all our parents would say hi and bye to her.
But she died alone in a nursing home with no wake and no one but the priest and her daughter at her funeral. She was the only person in the old neighborhood that didn't have a Standing Room only Funeral. Mostly people reacted with an "eh" when we heard she had dies. You reap what you sew.

I do hope some of you feel better when you get old. i can remember when old people was respected. as for the yard maybe there were flowers . its so hard for a old person to get around and keep a yard. younger people now are taught to disrespect older people dommiracer

What ever happened to teaching kids manners or to respect neighbor's privacy? How do you know this old man isn't sick in bed, or was asleep? Parents are too quick to coddle their "poor babies" instead of teaching them some manners or common sense! Yes, things get tossed accidently into neighbor's yards, and the PROPER way to retrieve them is get your PARENT to walk over with the child, because usually when an old person sees a kid at the door , their afraid they're having a prank played on them! YOU should have gone over there, instead of leaving it up to a child to deal with an adult!

yes what ever happened to love thy neighbor.and parents teaching their kids to respect their neighbors and play somewhere else. and hey dad cant you keep to your own yard.

If the eighty-nine year old had been in the yard and the foot ball hit her, she could have been severely injured or worse. Wait until you are older and see how you feel.

You obviously have good neighbors. My neighbors have left screwdrivers and tire tools laying in my yard. I found them while mowing my yard. Imagine if the mower had launched them. I knew exactly who these items belonged to. Instead of knocking on the trailer trash renters door, I decided the items would be better in a landfill.

Here's the problem with your kid's "ball,"....it happens way TOO much and neighbors get SICK of it. After all, it IS their yard/land, so if it accidentally gets knocked to your neighbor's side of the property, and they refuse to give you back the ball, then you should consider that a lesson well learned. Finders keepers is RIGHT after TWO times of this happening. I'm NOT an elderly person, and I also have a teenager...but I'd tell her the SAME thing.

Your attitude is just what has contributed to a whole generation of spoiled, selfish BRATS! Why not teach your daughter to keep out of the neighbor's yard and toss her basketball some other damned place. . . like YOUR yard or maybe the park paid for by taxing all, including your neighbor?

I see kids riding their bikes in traffic and shooting drivers the finger who tap their horns to warn them of their presence. Time was when a little POS who was worthless enough to do something like that would get a good belt swat to his ass. Not any more. We now have a generation of spoiled brats raising yet another generation of even more worthless brats.

Had that same thing happen to me. The snot nosed brats next door kept throwing things over my fence to try to kill my dog. Toxic markers, little plastic toys she could swallow and might choke on, even poisonous meat that my iron-stomached dog promptly threw up.

Good thing the ball landed in a pile left by my dog. When I sent it sailing back over the fence it came with an unexpected addition. Never happened again I'm here to tell you!

At least the cops did something. I have a house in Sevierville TN. The nieghbor kid brok into it and also vandalized my car breaking a window and slicing all the tires. A niegbor saw it happen. The police came and did nothing. They would not even talk to the kid or his parents. They told me that they would have to witness it themselves.
Lets get real here. Our problems are much worse that talking about this. We need to talk about gangs etc. If we can't stop a 89 year old woman the we are in trouble.

Pull up your pants sonny boy,

Does this apply to golf balls in a yard adjacent to a golf course.
There are some who will not let you retrieve a ball. Should I call the police.

You evidently didn't see the earlier articles about this incident. It was not a "one time" thing. It's happened repeatedly... daily..many many times... kids playing in her yard...the ball landing up side her home over and over.
The parents need to teach their children to play in their OWN yards .

lol!! Perhaps if you had shown kindness and love to your neighbor, he would not have had the sour attitude and kindly returned your daughter's ball. Being friendly and kind to your neighbor BEFORE something happens usually makes incidents easier to manage. :)

She was probably just as mean and nasty when she was a child!

When they took away the weapons from the parents they gave the bastards they raise the privelege to act as unholy terrors. This is the reason the youth of today NEED to get tattoos. They never had a hand laid on them to correct their little shit heads. Don't you know "Tattoos hurt and I like it!"

Better for the mom and dad to tan their fannies than for the mom and dad to let them act in such fashions. They will kill their little siblings and get away with it because the weapons of punishment have been removed from the parents hands.