City Evicts "Abusive" 98-Year-Old Woman

The Southampton City Council has given 98-year-old Mary Plaisted 28 days to leave her £65-a-week flat, making her one of the oldest people in the UK to be evicted from their home. It seems in 98 years Mary hasn't learned how to play nice with others. Mrs Plaisted is accused of assaulting caretakers and council staff at her apartment complex and harassing neighbors by banging on their windows. She was also accused of hitting her panic alarm 563 times in a month and calling the police 264 times over the past two years. Nick Cross, head of housing management for Southampton City Council, said, "It is regrettable when any action is taken by the council to repossess a property, particularly when the individual is very elderly. However, the council is left with no alternative when anti-social behaviour by one tenant leads to other residents' lives being made a misery."

Comments

You know what else is anti-social behaviour?

[Anonymous Coward]

Those boom cars that can be heard from miles away. We're not old, you're just an anti-social asshole.

Why do I keep thinking of John Bunnell

[fridaynightsmoke]

saying "now she sees plenty of the police- IN JAIL!"

Cut her some slack

[Locke2005]

If you hadn't gotten laid at all in the last 50 years, you'd probably be pretty grumpy too!

Re:563 times in a month?

[selven]

And there is no valid reason to divert emergency services from others just because of one demented person. Where I come from, if you have a mental issue that causes you to harm other people, you go to the mental hospital.