|
Don't give cookies to neighbors!!!!!
|
View this Thread in Original format
| Thriller |
OK I just read this on Yahoo News and OMG people are so retarded:
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. |
|
|
| Reverend_Lust |
| only in america :) |
|
|
| josh4 |
| goes to show that you shouldn't help people |
|
|
| Dmatrox |
| dumbest ruling ever. girls should have appealed. |
|
|
| Thriller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dmatrox
dumbest ruling ever. girls should have appealed. |
what would your argument be if you were the lawer? |
|
|
| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thriller
what would your argument be if you were the lawer? |
That the consequences weren't predictable nor intentional, and the consequence wasn't directly caused by the girls (besides, the woman had called the sheriff's department and they claimed no crime had happened that day, and her "attack" only happened in the following morning). That's the same as asking a random person in the street is (s)he's got the time and the referred person dies of a heart attack a couple of minutes later because of the surprise. |
|
|
| KilldaDJ |
| i thought this topic was something sexual. |
|
|
| Frequency |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
i thought this topic was something sexual. |
Hahaha! Don't worry, I'm sure we all did. :D
Or maybe it was just us. XD |
|
|
| dj chex |
omg, it's just sad... :eek:
Here's some more stuff i've found on cnn.com
| quote: |
Frightened, she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach.
The teenagers' families offered to pay Young's medical bills, but she declined and sued, saying their apologies were not sincere and were not offered in person.
The girls declined comment after the ruling. Taylor's mother said the girl "cried and cried."
|
Apologies weren't sincere... What???!!!? C'mon, the girls were bringing you cookies!!! I think i'm gonna find out where that woman lives and egg her house, seran wrap her car, and pour gas all over her grass... |
|
|
| trance85 |
good idea Chex,
and I'm not from CO initially, where the is Durango? |
|
|
| Shudder |
| i thought the cookies were bombs or something. media has corrupted my brain |
|
|
|
|
