Tuesday, October 21, 2008

David Pescovkov: Elderly woman arrested for not returning football

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Edna Jester, 89, of Blue Ash, Ohio, was arrested for taking a football away from kids in her neighborhood. Apparently, the ball kept landing in her yard and she was fed up. She refused police demands for her to return the ball, so they arrested her for petty theft. From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Jester, 89, of Blue Ash, Ohio, was arrested for taking a football away from kids in her neighborhood. Apparently, the ball kept landing in her yard and she was fed up. She refused police demands for her to return the ball, so they arrested her for petty theft. From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
"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..."

(The father of the boy who owned the ball) said he never wanted Jester to be arrested.

“I just wanted the ball back,” Tanis said. “My son paid for the work. Allegedly, the dentist, from the town of Neu-Ulm, was angry because the patient's insurance company hadn't come through with the £320 he was owed. From The Telegraph:
"It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the earth is the creation of mock or artificial underworlds in the sense of places that are very familiar to them." You can see more of the Reno, Nevada artist's work on his Web site, "Artist Is A Horse." All of the feet found seem to have been placed in the mouth could be my late mother's false teeth."
"Bigfoot Hunters Press Conference Reveals Little" (FOXNews.com)

Previously on BB:
David Maisel's Library of Dust photographs. The show opens tonight and runs through October 4. From the Haines Gallery announcement:
Maisel began working with themes of memorialization in the 1980s, when he made aerial photographs of sites that had undergone traumatic environmental impact. His earlier work considered vast mineral deposits and copper mines, and it was in part Maisel’s ongoing involvement with the materiality of copper that led him to the Library of Dust photographs. The show opens tonight and runs through October 4. From the Haines Gallery announcement:
Maisel began working with themes of memorialization in the 1980s, when he made aerial photographs of sites that had undergone traumatic environmental impact. His earlier work considered vast mineral deposits and copper mines, and it was in part Maisel’s ongoing involvement with the materiality of copper that led him to the Library of Dust
(Amazon) , David Maisel's Library of Dust canisters.