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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on February 04, 2005, 02:17:34 PM
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linkola (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7543994)
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.
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I BEAT YOU TO IT BY 1 MINUTE!
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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!
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I BEAT YOU TO IT BY 1 MINUTE!
Heh, yeah I just saw it and was gonna delete this one but people started posting already. Maybe it was late to knock on someone's door. Most of us country folks consider 9pm the cutoff, but I think the lady freaked out all on her own. After all it was'nt a burning sack of dog poo.
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sack of poopoo. tried that once.
almost got my dog shot the next day.
boy that dude was a freeeeeeak.
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10:30 is a bit late but hell I am sure some people would dig cookies at 1030!
Still lame. I bet the stupid women has big time issues, prolly a tin hat type.
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Question.
Is there a curfew?
Is that a gated community?
Was there trespassing involved?
I mean how in the crap can some on get sued over ringing a doorbell and leaving cookies at 10:30 pm ?
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it may be well worth the fine to have the entire world call here sylvester ko*****, sy for short.
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Originally posted by JB88
it may be well worth the fine to have the entire world call here sylvester ko*****, sy for short.
LOL yeah but 900 smackers is alot of cash for a couple of kids.
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They were minors. The parents are footing the bill.
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I lived there for 3 years. Great place to raise a family.
One of the first things you notice when you go there is that there are hardlyu any fat people. Everyone is in great shape.
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If i remember right... the population was 3 men to every women and most of the women were lesbians.
Besides THAT it's a great place
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If these girls have boyfriends, If I were Wanita I`d keep them nitro tabs handy. :D