how's this for neighborly love - Page 2

garnet · 02-10-2005, 10:16 AM

My neighbors left a homemade CD of Christmas music in my mailbox over the holidays. I'm sure it was well-intentioned, but if there's anything that calls for a lawsuit, it's Christmas music.

Happy Monkey · 02-10-2005, 10:33 AM

Happily, a local radio station is paying the judgement, so the girls are off the hook.

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"This has turned into quite a fiasco," Young said. "It's something that never should have happened and it's just devastating.

I wonder if she realizes that it's her reaction that never should have happened, and not the girls' action.

BigV · 02-10-2005, 10:36 AM

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Study shows sudden stress can cause heart failure

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Sudden emotional stress can cause heart failure in primarily healthy women, most of them older,according to a study published Thursday in the latest edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2569085.htm

She coulda died!

warch · 02-10-2005, 11:27 AM

What if our freaked Granny had popped open the door and shot them? Found them hiding in the shrubs?

Elspode · 02-10-2005, 12:33 PM

I think we need an immediate study of the effects of cookie gifting on the elderly.

Happy Monkey · 02-10-2005, 12:41 PM

No, no. I'm not elderly yet. We need a study of the effects of cookie gifting on males in their late twenties.

I'm guessing weight gain.

lookout123 · 02-10-2005, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

She coulda died!

with a crap attitude like hers, maybe she should have.

BigV · 02-10-2005, 01:47 PM

She will. You too. And me.

By the way, what's "crap" about being afraid?

Happy Monkey · 02-10-2005, 01:56 PM

"Crap" is suing two girls for giving you free cookies.

lookout123 · 02-10-2005, 02:08 PM

i've been startled before. i've been scared before. i've been pissed off about little girl scouts waking me up on a saturday morning with their cookie selling efforts. i've never thought about suing someone over a case of nerves.

whatever family members encouraged the old lady in this and whatever attorney took the case on should be pummeled with baseball bats.

wolf · 02-11-2005, 01:31 AM

Small claims is typically approached without an attorney, isn't it? Of course you can consult one, but you don't take them into court with you ...

russotto · 02-14-2005, 10:01 AM

The biased judge ought to be defrocked and disbarred. What the hell difference does it make how late they were out? The lady in question didn't even know how old they were, so that's completely and totally irrelevant.

glatt · 02-14-2005, 10:52 AM

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.

Quote:

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

02-10-2005, 12:33 PM	#20
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I think we need an immediate study of the effects of cookie gifting on the elderly. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-10-2005, 12:41 PM	#21
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	No, no. I'm not elderly yet. We need a study of the effects of cookie gifting on males in their late twenties. I'm guessing weight gain. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

02-10-2005, 01:47 PM	#23
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	for the record... She will. You too. And me. By the way, what's "crap" about being afraid? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-10-2005, 01:56 PM	#24
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	"Crap" is suing two girls for giving you free cookies. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

02-10-2005, 02:08 PM	#25
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i've been startled before. i've been scared before. i've been pissed off about little girl scouts waking me up on a saturday morning with their cookie selling efforts. i've never thought about suing someone over a case of nerves. whatever family members encouraged the old lady in this and whatever attorney took the case on should be pummeled with baseball bats. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

02-10-2005, 10:16 AM	#16
garnet ... Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 657	My neighbors left a homemade CD of Christmas music in my mailbox over the holidays. I'm sure it was well-intentioned, but if there's anything that calls for a lawsuit, it's Christmas music.

02-10-2005, 11:27 AM	#19
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	What if our freaked Granny had popped open the door and shot them? Found them hiding in the shrubs?

02-11-2005, 01:31 AM	#26
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Small claims is typically approached without an attorney, isn't it? Of course you can consult one, but you don't take them into court with you ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-14-2005, 10:01 AM	#27
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	The biased judge ought to be defrocked and disbarred. What the hell difference does it make how late they were out? The lady in question didn't even know how old they were, so that's completely and totally irrelevant.

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