Foam Stress Ball Which Destroyed Harris’ Eye

It didn’t really kill Jeanne Harris but this little buggar (pictured nearby) lobbed to another council member at a meeting of elected officials in 2011, accidentally tagged the gavel-down councilwoman in the temple. Now the Vancouver City Councilwoman says that bop with a foam stress ball in her temple actually detached her retina. She’s filed a claim for $500,000.00 from the City of Ridgefield because it was that City’s  then-Mayor who foam-balled her.
According to Harris, she’s had six unsuccessful surgeries to reattach her retina following the foam balling.

Former Ridgefield Mayor, Ron Onslow, told The Columbian, he apologized and thought that was the end of it,

“I lobbed it, I didn’t throw it,” Onslow said last week. “It was an errant little toss and it hit the side of her face, her temple.”

The Columbian

Harris is a woman who’s living on the edge. She’s closed her business, filed for bankruptcy, is divorcing her husband, and her shaky temperament at Vancouver Council meetings is well known. Her infamous “Gavel Down!” meltdown is still a local favorite on You Tube. She also recently became unglued at a Council meeting, lashing out at Mayor Tim Leavitt, who changed a vote without telling her, leaving her sputtering, “I, I, I, I, I, I…” It has now become a staple on The Victoria Taft Show.

When asked if she was filing the claim because of her financial woes she lashed out at the reporter retorting,

“Oh my God, are you kidding me? I lost an eye! They are not connected. … One has nothing to do with the other. Don’t you dare say that to me!”

Read the rest here. 

Harris’ term is up in 2014. Gads.