Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor (WTF?)

[indigobusiness]

***This Country has officially lost its mind***
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Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor

Fri Feb 4,10:49 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters



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."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20050205/od_nm/odd_cookies_dc

[sleepyhead]

1. Indeed.

I read the story several times thinking that I had missed something. This is insane.

[Sporadicus]

2. I Concur That the Woman's Reaction Was Overkill & the Fine Was Excessive

but I certainly wouldn't eat cookies left on my doorstep.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Each party were idiots...

The judge for making the ruling
The lady for filing the lawsuit
and
the girls for going around at night making deliveries

What the hell is wrong with the woman if she gets an anxiety attack because of cookies?

It was inappropriate for the girls to giving cookies out that late at nite.

The judge should had given the girls a chewing out and nothing more.


I would make sure that everyone knows about the lady and warn them to stay away from her.

[HereSince1628]

4. Now that's not right, somethings wrong with this picture

[Califooyah Operative]

5. yea i saw this on cnn headline news and shook my eye head...nt

[KarenS]

6. oh goodgrief,,,, this is unbelievable,,,,,

I do not understand the judge's ruling either,,,,

what a crock!!!

so much for random acts of kindness.

[Moderator]

7. locking

this story is two days old, and has already been shipped to the lounge once.