A $900 Kick to the gonads...

[Treibenschnell]

Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor

Fri Feb 4,10:49 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters



DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - 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.

[altiain]

You've got to be kidding me.

They should have left her a flaming bag of poop. Maybe then she really would have had a heart attack.

[Treibenschnell]

Here's a LINKIE to the expanded story.

I can't imagine the kids in the neighborhood are gonna be nice to her now... her current medical bills will resemble a BB in a boxcar! Bad situation all around...

[black roadster]

Stuff like this pisses me off! That's the problem with our court systems. Frivolous lawsuits and greedy f*cking lawyers.

Let's take another situation. What if the girls were in need of assistance and went to the house for help? A much more stressful situation I'm sure. Would the woman then sue someone in need of assistance because they knocked on her door?

If the psycho b*tch was so in fear for her life, why didn't she call the cops to report it?

Big damn B.S. lawsuit that *SHOULD* have been thrown out. Hell, the girls even tried to apologize AND offered to cover her medical bills but since psycho skank ho said the apology wasn't in person, she sued them. F*cking Whore!

I hope the big news media catches wind of this and the girls get a few appearances on the Today Show or Leno and get some cash for their story.

No "good deed" goes unpunished, huh?

[sammm]

Stuff like this pisses me off! That's the problem with our court systems. Frivolous lawsuits and greedy f*cking lawyers.

Amen to that!

[ccage]

Gotta admit, this is one lamest things I've seen in recent times. Looks like this woman thinks she's found her next meal ticket...

Chuck

[photodavo]

Give me a break...I better think twice the next time I use the horn to get the attention of the flippin Excursion that's about to change into my lane because she's too busy on her cell phone to notice I'm there.

Heaven forbid I might scare her and cause an eye injury since she was also applying her makeup. Yeah...I just better keep to myself and let her demolish my car...it would probably be a lot cheaper.

Disclaimer: The fact that I happened to use the feminine here is simply to provide an example. It could just as easily have been the dumba$$ attorney in his Escalade that talked her into it!

[TurboDuane]

Stuff like this pisses me off! That's the problem with our court systems. Frivolous lawsuits and greedy f*cking lawyers.

Let's take another situation. What if the girls were in need of assistance and went to the house for help? A much more stressful situation I'm sure. Would the woman then sue someone in need of assistance because they knocked on her door?

If the psycho b*tch was so in fear for her life, why didn't she call the cops to report it?

Big damn B.S. lawsuit that *SHOULD* have been thrown out. Hell, the girls even tried to apologize AND offered to cover her medical bills but since psycho skank ho said the apology wasn't in person, she sued them. F*cking Whore!

I hope the big news media catches wind of this and the girls get a few appearances on the Today Show or Leno and get some cash for their story.

No "good deed" goes unpunished, huh?

yea, what he said

[MadMerv]

What's this world coming to????