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Peegee
02-07-2005, 06:03 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20050204/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_cookies

DURANGO, Colorado (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 (480 pounds) for the distress a neighbour 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 neighbour 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 neighbours 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 neighbours 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.

eestlinc
02-07-2005, 06:07 AM
hopefully someone else will pitch in to pay the cost. Sounds pretty ridiculous.

Jojee
02-07-2005, 06:09 AM
10:30 is not late to be out. No one's sleeping then. How ridiculous *rolls eyes*

The Captain
02-07-2005, 06:11 AM
For better or worse, in this case worse, we certainly live in a litigious society.

Take care all.

Zell's Fists of Fury
02-07-2005, 08:58 AM
Oh jeez. :rolleyes2

Samuraid
02-07-2005, 09:29 AM
Amount the court awarded: $990
Amount the court <i>should</i> have awarded: -$990 (pay the girls) :D

That is just ludicrous and frivilous.

boris no no
02-07-2005, 09:58 AM
i always thought cookies brought joy...i was wrong :cry: *sniff*

that women must of had a cookie phobia...

Resha
02-07-2005, 10:53 AM
I read that in the newspaper today. :mad2: What a mean neighbor!

Dreamtiger42
02-07-2005, 02:00 PM
Thats so unfair! :mad2:

I make cakes for people all the time! and i hardly ever goto sleep at 10.30!!!

I think the neighbour just needed a bit of money! :eek:

She needs slapidy slaps!!! :D MUHAHAHA

Rusty
02-07-2005, 02:06 PM
Taking someone to court over biscuits? Thats stupid.

Peegee
02-07-2005, 04:31 PM
Next time I see somebody in the need for help I'll just watch. Then I'll be sued anyway.

DMKA
02-07-2005, 04:33 PM
Someone needs a hug. :rolleyes2

Peegee
02-07-2005, 04:36 PM
I got a hug yesterday. It was...nice

haha I used the worst word for it :D

Zell's Fists of Fury
02-07-2005, 04:48 PM
Next time I see somebody in the need for help I'll just watch. Then I'll be sued anyway.
Seinfield, man.

Tokki Wartooth
02-08-2005, 02:19 AM
I got a hug yesterday. It was...nice

haha I used the worst word for it :D
I hope somebody awesome/hot gave it to you ;D

Giga Guess
02-08-2005, 02:39 AM
This, my friends, is a crock. Plain and simple. I can't believe that the judge didn't out and out toss the whole thing. I mean these girls did a good deed (BTW, this was a regular activity for them...hit & run cookies) and are being punished. GREAT way to reward the teenagers trying to change the conception the world has of them....

Carnage
02-08-2005, 02:53 AM
Thank god this isnt in EoEO because in my own fascist country. she would be dragged outside of her house and shot.

Its like those girls who sued McDonalds because tehy were fat. The world could do without a few people.

Quina
02-08-2005, 03:04 AM
What happened to the cookies???