This is why no one does anything nice for anyone anymore.... :|


Gift of Cookies Crumbles; Girls Told to Pay $900

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.


02-05-05 08:13 EST

Later she was pelted out of the neighborhood by stones with hearts rubber-banded to them...

Absolutely fucking ridiculous. The women and the judge both deserve to be stoned.

Yeah, I read about that this morning. The only way to live in peace these days is to stay in your own house and watch TV. But then you'll get sued for changing the channel when the commercials come on because it's theft.

I find it doubly redicilous because I have the same kind of attacks this lady is talking about, panic anxiety. And I have never once in my life thought of taking someone to court because they caused me to have one... it's really stupid...

The kids parent's must be rich... I mean, why else would you sue someone for bringing you cookies unless you thought you were going to get alot out of it?

The kids parent's must be rich... I mean, why else would you sue someone for bringing you cookies unless you thought you were going to get alot out of it?

There are a lot of assholes in this world, Damalis, and not all of them are intelligent.

yeah I know...

but more than likely, as I have experience in this, the lady thought she was seriously having a heart attack, got to the hospital, found out she's a weinier who was only having a panic attack and immediately looked for someone to blame instead of admitting it was an honest mistake on her part....

The reason no one does anything nice for anyone anymore is because they never did except in the fantasies of people who have revised entire historical periods in their minds. And this, this is a $900 lawsuit that (like most frivolous lawsuits people with too much time on their hands complain about) will have no bearing on society.

It's just another shining example of how fucked up our country is. Someone should go go to her yard and break their leg then sue her for that.

umm..


well, I nominate you... :)