Connecticut boy sued for being too excited at his 8th birthday party

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A Connecticut boy named Sean Tarala is on trial for being too excited at his birthday party. Now 12 years old, Tarala was just eight when he leapt into the arms of his aunt, Jennifer Connell, when she came to his party.

"All of a sudden he was there in the air, I had to catch him and we tumbled onto the ground," Connell testified in court. "I remember him shouting, 'Auntie Jen I love you,' and there he was flying at me." The encounter broke Connell's wrist, and she is now asking a jury to award her $127,000 from her mystified pre-teen nephew.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.