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Lune [6 Option Mod] · Post by **Lune [6 Option Mod]** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:37 pm

Reuters wrote:DURANGO, Colo. (Feb. 4) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.

The pair were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs after neighbor Wanita Renea Young, 49, filed a lawsuit complaining that the unsolicited cookies, left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day.

Taylor Ostergaard, then 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitte, 18, paid the judgment on Thursday after a small claims court ruling by La Plata County Court Judge Doug Walker, a court clerk said on Friday.

The girls baked cookies as a surprise for several of their rural Colorado neighbors on July 31 and dropped off small batches on their porches, accompanied by red or pink paper hearts and the message: "Have a great night."

The Denver Post newspaper reported on Friday that the girls had decided to stay home and bake the cookies rather than go to a dance where there might be cursing and drinking.

It reported that six neighbors wrote letters entered as evidence in the case thanking the girls for the cookies.

But Young said she was frightened because the two had knocked on her door at about 10:30 p.m. and run off after leaving the cookies.

She went to a hospital emergency room the next day, fearing that she had suffered a heart attack, court records said.

The judge awarded Young her medical costs, but did not award punitive damages. He said he did not think the girls had acted maliciously but that 10:30 was fairly late at night for them to be out.

Watch out, people! They might be coming to a house near you! And next time, it might be almond nut cookies! OH NO!

sergio · Post by **sergio** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:02 pm

Well, at least they weren't shot by another teenager that played a lot of FPS games and listened to Marylin Manson who thought the cookies were left by a pair of zombies invading his city!

And you wonder how it'll end.

RadicalDreamer · Post by **RadicalDreamer** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:03 pm

There's gotta be more to the story than that.

naval_aviator_2040 · Post by **naval_aviator_2040** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:08 pm

please tell me that there is more to that otherwise my faith in humanity will have been stripped away

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:14 pm

I've seen a couple different news stories, and there really isn't much more to it that I've been able to pick up.

But you know who I feel REALLY sorry for?

The DAUGHTER of this crazy woman. That's gotta mess up your life.

Post by **Blaze** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:36 pm

It really is pretty rediculous. I mean, I can see if they like... kept comming back, creeping around, making noise, running off, and comming back again.

But honestly, didn't this lady ever have T.P.ers?!

Rileyrat · Post by **Rileyrat** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:54 am

Wow so staying home and being nice to your fellow humans is a fineable offense? Funny thing is there are 2 people to blame here, the effin lady for even filing the suit and the judge for awarding her more than a slap in the mouth.
EDIT: I just realized what was wrong here, they live in Colorado, I hate this state sometimes.

bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:16 am

am i the only one that thinks that if the two girls caused the crazy hag physical and/or psychological damage(however unintentional) which resulted in medical expenses, they should have to pay for the expenses? as much as i want to say that since the girls were doing a nice thing, they shouldnt be blamed for the consequences, especially such as they are, because i believe that everyone should be responsible for their actions and their consequences, i cant.

naval_aviator_2040 · Post by **naval_aviator_2040** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:00 am

The lady overreacted. If the girls had thought "oh no we better not do this it might be misinterpreted" they may not have gone out to the neighbor hood. who knows, maybe someone else got just what they needed from those cookies. Maybe the little extra attention was just what they needed to brighten up their day. What would happen if every time anyone tried to make something nice for someone else they froze because they were to afraid it woud be misinterpreted? We'd have no Charities, no neighborhood picnics, no way to think that anyone else would ever want to help us out all because we were to afraid to try and do something nice.

bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:11 am

if you go around at night knocking at people's doors and then running away, it is not out of the question that someone may be scared(we've all had a crazy old hag or two in our neighborhood). what the girls did was a good deed, it just wasnt the best way of doing it, and they learned that the hard way.

Nukinblackmage · Post by **Nukinblackmage** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:00 am

So they went out at night to deliver cookies. So what? They were indoors like all day baking and they wanted to deliver as fresh as possible cookies to their neighbors. The old hag shoulda gotten laughed out of court.

What I find funniest is this little nugget

rather than go to a dance where there might be cursing and drinking.

Okay...the drinking I understand...but CURSING!? MIGHT BE!? ...ow. Is Durango THAT backwater?

Kilgamayan · Post by **Kilgamayan** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:02 am

Instead of paying the medical bills, the girls should've been forced to make another batch of cookies and send them to the woman while she is/was in the hospital, complete with a "Get well soon!" paper heart.

Post by **Blaze** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:04 am

am i the only one that thinks that if the two girls caused the crazy hag physical and/or psychological damage(however unintentional) which resulted in medical expenses, they should have to pay for the expenses?

The families OFFERED to pay the medical bills. Read it. She's sueing anyway.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:18 am

[quote="bort";p="451453"]am i the only one that thinks that if the two girls caused the crazy hag physical and/or psychological damage(however unintentional) which resulted in medical expenses, they should have to pay for the expenses?[/quote]
Not just unintentional. Unreasonable. Did you read the part about where the expenses came from?

"She went to a hospital emergency room the next day, fearing that she had suffered a heart attack"

Smells like a heaping pile of bullshit to me.

Calus · Post by **Calus** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:39 am

So do I. This wasn't a "OMG someone might be out there trying to kill me," it's, "Someone dang fucked up, money time."

It wouldn't be Unreasonable if she when to the hospital that night. Next time girls give the people the cookies inperson and say away from the greedy basterd.

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