Girls Sued For Baking Cookies

[ragingfish]

Quote »Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to NeighborDURANGO, 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. That woman should be shot. What's worse is that the stupid judge rules IN HER FAVOR!

[redlava]

That is ridiculous. Stupid people are like cockroaches, a few win some money in court then the rest come out of the woodwork to feed.

[Mavrik]

so what was the medical proof connecting the woman's "heart attack" AKA stupidity to the contents of the cookies?Obviously the "surprise" drop off of the cookies was noted and thanked by 6 other neighbours? And they are fine? Well you know what those two girls learned? F*%k everyone and just worry about yourself and don't try doing anything nice for anybody.Next thing you know someone helped across the street is going to sue for molestation or abuse.

[Turbo5Speed]

They should make stupidity illegal God knows I'd like to see people that dumb/screwed up put away (And some stupid drivers off the road)