They Grow Up Fast No Matter What

They Grow Up Fast No Matter What [+ favourites]

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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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"A fool says I know and a wise man says I wonder."

That whole Idea makes me ill - I'm going to sue! My heart! I think it stopped!

"No one ever won a war by sitting in a ditch"

Lazy fat bitch.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

im ashamed to live in the same state.

"UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. ~Peter H. Coffin"

I bet she ate the cookies anyway

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

A comment from a friend at work - she was probably hoping to get a big settlement.

"A fool says I know and a wise man says I wonder."

Holy crap! I thought the law in this country was an ass. That takes the biscuit.. (literally)

"Be Afraid - the world needs more fraids!"

How sad.

If someone baked me cookies, I would appreciate it!

If you don't mind snoring, save me a seat okcitykid!!!!

"Oops, it appears I have run over your dogma with my karma."

what a i wont say cuz i have to learn not to use bad words in my sentences cuz my fiance doesn't like it i'd bake her more cookies n leave em on her steps at like 11:30 and then again at 12:30 til about six in the morning just to get back ...my spanish teacher always said kill em with kindness ....didn't know u could actually do it

"sonrisa siesta y fiesta ...if ya wanna know don't be afraid to ask i only bite on days that end in y"

The Courts should have thrown out the case. How frivolous can one get? Too many people just look for a way to win the “Legal Lottery”. If she had a problem, she should have taken it up with the girl’s mother. Their parents may have agreed to pay the medical costs without going to court.

A person who bring such a frivolous case to court, and looses, should have to pay for court costs, including the judge’s salary, and face time for contempt of court. I bet you will see a drastic reduction in such nonsense. A person was suing a good friend of mine for bodily harm incurred while on his property. The guy was trespassing in the first place, had a burglary record, and it was ultimately proven he was not injured at all. He got up and walked out of the courtroom, carrying his crutches in his hand. Because it was an insurance case, guess who got the bill for the courts.

"Oops, it appears I have run over your dogma with my karma."

Disgusting she probably faked the whole thing.

"He who does not question is lost."