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garnet 02-10-2005 10:16 AM

My neighbors left a homemade CD of Christmas music in my mailbox over the holidays. I'm sure it was well-intentioned, but if there's anything that calls for a lawsuit, it's Christmas music.

Happy Monkey 02-10-2005 10:33 AM

Happily, a local radio station is paying the judgement, so the girls are off the hook.
Quote:

"This has turned into quite a fiasco," Young said. "It's something that never should have happened and it's just devastating.
I wonder if she realizes that it's her reaction that never should have happened, and not the girls' action.

BigV 02-10-2005 10:36 AM

Bur really, f'real--
 
Quote:

Study shows sudden stress can cause heart failure

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Sudden emotional stress can cause heart failure in primarily healthy women, most of them older,according to a study published Thursday in the latest edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2569085.htm
She coulda died!

warch 02-10-2005 11:27 AM

What if our freaked Granny had popped open the door and shot them? Found them hiding in the shrubs?

Elspode 02-10-2005 12:33 PM

I think we need an immediate study of the effects of cookie gifting on the elderly.

Happy Monkey 02-10-2005 12:41 PM

No, no. I'm not elderly yet. We need a study of the effects of cookie gifting on males in their late twenties.

I'm guessing weight gain.

lookout123 02-10-2005 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV
She coulda died!

with a crap attitude like hers, maybe she should have.

BigV 02-10-2005 01:47 PM

for the record...
 
She will. You too. And me.

By the way, what's "crap" about being afraid?

Happy Monkey 02-10-2005 01:56 PM

"Crap" is suing two girls for giving you free cookies.

lookout123 02-10-2005 02:08 PM

i've been startled before. i've been scared before. i've been pissed off about little girl scouts waking me up on a saturday morning with their cookie selling efforts. i've never thought about suing someone over a case of nerves.

whatever family members encouraged the old lady in this and whatever attorney took the case on should be pummeled with baseball bats.

wolf 02-11-2005 01:31 AM

Small claims is typically approached without an attorney, isn't it? Of course you can consult one, but you don't take them into court with you ...

russotto 02-14-2005 10:01 AM

The biased judge ought to be defrocked and disbarred. What the hell difference does it make how late they were out? The lady in question didn't even know how old they were, so that's completely and totally irrelevant.

glatt 02-14-2005 10:52 AM

I read a write up of this in our Sunday paper. Apparently, once this news hit the wires, a lot of donations have come in from across the country. The teenage girls now have enough money to pay the insane judgement, and they are donating all extra money to local hospitals. I impressed with how good these teenagers are.

Quote:

Teenage Girls' Good Deed Punished With $900 Judgment

When two schoolgirls in rural Colorado decided to bake cookies for their neighbors, they got thanks and praise for this simple act of kindness. But they also got a lawsuit and ended up paying $900 in damages.

Lindsey Zilletti and Taylor Ostergaard, both 18, said they passed up a dance for teens in Durango, Colo., last July and decided to spend the evening instead delivering chocolate chip and sugar cookies to neighbors. At nine homes, they knocked on the door and left a plate of cookies on the porch.

One neighbor, Wanita Renea Young, was so upset by the visit at 10:30 p.m. that she went to the hospital the next day. She sued, and La Plata County Judge Doug Walker ordered the teenagers to pay her medical expenses.

Despite that sour verdict, the two young bakers are now rolling in dough. So many contributions have poured in to Durango's "Cookie Defense Fund" that the pair are asking backers to send money to hospitals instead.

-- T.R. Reid


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