The unholy cookies of death!

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Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor


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.

Another fine example of how pathetic and lawsuit-happy the average U.S. citizen is these days.👎 And how can this man be a judge? I would have laughed right in the woman's face and made her pay the defendants' court costs, if any. Guess that's why I'm not a judge.
 
That's just sickening. If I were those girls, I'd give that woman a REAL reason to check herself into the hospital for anxiety. I'd go buy toilet paper, lay it all over the windshield of her car and spray it with water from a spray bottle to freeze it to her windshield. Or something like that. Is that mean? She must not have a conscience, since she actually made these girls pay the money even after she was told the real reason they baked the cookies and gave them to her was to be nice. I know exactly what kind of old b*tch this woman was. There seems to be one on every street. Anyone remember Mrs. Deagle from Gremlins?
 
I hate these Americans that are lawsuit-happy. they give us a bad name. that sucks. That old lady will probably have a toilet-papered house when she gets home. and if i was close to there, I would TP the damn thing myself.
 
It's just like those parents who were filing suit against Cabbage Patch because of that doll that accidentally had the "dirty-word" serial number. Someone needs to drill the following message into these people's heads:

GET OVER IT.

Oh, and by the way, the US isn't the only place you'll find these degenerate lawsuit-happy fools. Canada has its fair share, and I'm sure they can be found lurking all over the world.
 
Are you dead serious? How could a judge even agree to hear such a bogus case? The woman who had the anxiety attack was obviously mentally unstable (I mean come on, who has an anxiety attack when they find cookies on their doorstep?). Still, I must agree with DJM's sentiment; let's go to England.
 
screw that old lady.
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What type of rough 'hood is it that you have a panic attack when someone knocks on your door late!?

But man, 17 and 18 yr olds making cookies? I'd be freaked.

Oh, and don't come to the UK, the girls would get sued for catering when it cannot be proved that the preperation was in a hygenic environment.
 
You can bet she'll be targeted by every TPer in the county. That's what usually happens to the "b**** on the block."

I remember a TV show that did a story on one lady who would sue anybody for anything. She sued neighbors for swimming in their pool, kids playing basketball, for parking their car in front of her house, etc. While they interviewed her, which she allowed, a TV camera man lightly bumped her with the camera. Yep, she sued the show and the network for that very light bump. All in toll, she had racked up over 500 lawsuits. Not all were for money. Some, like the ones against her neighbors, were for stopping something she didn't like. Like construction a neighbor was having done on their roof. Yep, the roof was half finished when the court order came in for the workers to stop. A rain storm came in a damaged the roof and house, and owners couldn't sue for damages because it was a court order to stop the work.

Yep, our justice system doesn't know it's ass from a hole in the ground sometimes. It's still the best court system in the world though.
 
Erm, wasn't there a law passed some years back to prevent these petty lawsuits from happening? Or was that just for Canada?

Anyways, the thing *did* say the lady had to spend the night at a hospital because of her over the top paranoia. Could the $900 have been to pay the bill?

Either way, people sue over some reaally stupid **** these days 👎
 
This is why, if I was some sort of high-up politician/lawyer type, I'd try and get and Act passed called the Being Bloody Stupid Act, so things like this, and the Cabbage Patch doll thing, and the McDonald's 'hot coffee' thing could be thrown out. And everyone could rejoice and be free from pointless lawsuits.
 
The part that strikes me as riduculous is that she has a giant panic attack or whatever just from seeing some cookies on her doorstep, yet going through the hassle and stress of a court case is easy as pie. Maybe because there's free money involved?

Next time they should leave a live rattlesnake in a cookie jar front of her door and let mother nature work her magic.:)
 
Welcome to America, where the nice guy finishes last and the generous wholesome youth gets slapped with legal fees.
 
wow - I can't believe we don't have any real lawyers that are explaining this case


....so let me try: The lady sued for her medical bills probably because she didn't have insurance and couldn't pay for it. The teenage girls (or their parents) would NOT have to pay for this, it would be covered on their homeowners insurance (homeowners insurance generally covers non-intentional torts). (note: a tort isn't a pastry, it's an intentional or unintentional harm to people or property)


Having said all that, this case should have been tossed out of court. I can't think of any tort that the girls committed. The closest that I can think of would be tresspassing - I'll have to go look up the elements to see if you could actually recover for this type of injury from tresspassing though.
 
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screw that old lady. :grumpy:
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No, thank you. :scared:

"10.30 is fairly late for 17/18 year olds to be out"? I'm 18 and 10.30 is early...

On a serious note - if those two girls were staying home baking cookies instead of going to a drunken party they must be pretty responsible. And good housewives. Shoot one of 'em my way. :lol:
 
An anxiety attack over cookies? Now that's something new... I wonder if the cookies were choc chip? Seriously now, that is just plain crazy.
 

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