how's this for neighborly love

[glatt]

I read a write up of this in our Sunday paper. Apparently, once this news hit the wires, a lot of donations have come in from across the country. The teenage girls now have enough money to pay the insane judgement, and they are donating all extra money to local hospitals. I impressed with how good these teenagers are.

Teenage Girls' Good Deed Punished With $900 Judgment

When two schoolgirls in rural Colorado decided to bake cookies for their neighbors, they got thanks and praise for this simple act of kindness. But they also got a lawsuit and ended up paying $900 in damages.

Lindsey Zilletti and Taylor Ostergaard, both 18, said they passed up a dance for teens in Durango, Colo., last July and decided to spend the evening instead delivering chocolate chip and sugar cookies to neighbors. At nine homes, they knocked on the door and left a plate of cookies on the porch.

One neighbor, Wanita Renea Young, was so upset by the visit at 10:30 p.m. that she went to the hospital the next day. She sued, and La Plata County Judge Doug Walker ordered the teenagers to pay her medical expenses.

Despite that sour verdict, the two young bakers are now rolling in dough. So many contributions have poured in to Durango's "Cookie Defense Fund" that the pair are asking backers to send money to hospitals instead.

-- T.R. Reid