Beware of teenage girls bearing cookies.

**Rain Man** · 02-04-2005, 06:19 PM

I'm not quite sure what to make out of this.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6914824/?GT1=6190

That’s the way the cookie crumbles
Frightened neighbor sues teens over late-night gift — and wins

Updated: 3:48 p.m. ET Feb. 4, 2005DURANGO, Colo. - Two teenage girls who surprised their neighbors with homemade cookies late one night were ordered to pay nearly $900 in medical bills plus court costs for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.

La Plata County Court Judge Doug Walker declined Thursday to award punitive damages, saying he did not believe the girls acted maliciously but that 10:30 was fairly late at night for them to be out.

Taylor Ostergaard, then 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, then 18, baked the chocolate chip and sugar cookies one night last July. They made packages with a half-dozen cookies each and added large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, “Have a great night” and were signed with their first initials: “Love, The T and L Club.” Then they set off to make their deliveries.

The Denver Post reported 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.

‘Shadowy figures’ and no answer to ‘Who’s there?’
But Wanita Renea Young, 49, said she was at her rural home south of Durango around 10:30 p.m. when she saw “shadowy figures” outside the house banging repeatedly on her door. She yelled, “Who’s there?” but no one answered, and the figures ran away.

The teens said they did not answer when the woman called out because they wanted the treats to be a surprise.

Frightened, Young spent the night at her sister’s home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking, had an upset stomach and feared she had had a heart attack.

Apologies called insincere
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 her daughter “cried and cried.”

“She felt she was being punished for doing something nice,” Jill Ostergaard said.

Young said the teenagers showed “very poor judgment”

“The victory wasn’t sweet,” Young said. “I’m not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson.”

The two were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs. They paid the judgment Thursday, a court clerk said Friday.

Calcountry · 02-04-2005, 06:25 PM

Originally I thought this was a Girl Scout Cookie thread. It is that time of year agian.

Zebedee DuBois · 02-04-2005, 06:25 PM

That is just sad.

Joe Seahawk · 02-04-2005, 06:30 PM

I wish they would have come to my house..

**Rain Man** · 02-04-2005, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Seahawk

I wish they would have come to my house..

You want to nibble on their cookies?

KCWolfman · 02-04-2005, 07:14 PM

I bet they pooped in the cookie dough before they baked them.

**HemiEd** · 02-04-2005, 07:21 PM

Further proof that "no good deed goes unpunished", too bad for the girls they ran in to this bag for a neighbor

Calcountry · 02-04-2005, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by hemied

Further proof that "no good deed goes unpunished", too bad for the girls they ran in to this bag for a neighbor

Some wenches are just paranoid.

**HemiEd** · 02-04-2005, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bunnytrdr

Some wenches are just paranoid.

Yep, they will probably end up being "crack heads" or something now. Then they should countersue the bitch for ruining their lives!

KCWolfman · 02-04-2005, 07:26 PM

Maybe I am alone, but doesn't this sound fishy to anyone else?

Two teenage girls wanted to avoid cursing at a party so they stayed home, baked cookies, sat them on people's doorsteps, knocked, and ran away giggling madly.

Something just doesn't click. Is the reporter related to them? I am surprised I didn't read about a small child they found in a well and rescued at the same time. And why would they "bang on the door repeatedly" if they wanted to surprise someone?

That said, I don't understand the judgement against them at all. Why are they liable because a stupid broad got scared?

angel · 02-04-2005, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bunnytrdr

Originally I thought this was a Girl Scout Cookie thread. It is that time of year agian.

Is it wrong that I run when I see Girl Scouts with their cookie selling sheets? I'm a poor college student forced to work all day at an elementary school... and pay for the work that I do. I keep seeing these little girls with the cookie selling sheets coming down the hall, so I duck into the nearest open doorway to avoid being asked. I can't turn the little sweethearts down, but I can't afford to buy something that I won't even eat.

To post about the thread topic: people are sue-happy, and I'm beginning to hate mankind. That's why I'm becoming a teacher, to mold future minds into ones that will be more like I want the world to be like. It's quite an awesome power.

KCWolfman · 02-04-2005, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by angel

Is it wrong that I run when I see Girl Scouts with their cookie selling sheets? I'm a poor college student forced to work all day at an elementary school... and pay for the work that I do. I keep seeing these little girls with the cookie selling sheets coming down the hall, so I duck into the nearest open doorway to avoid being asked. I can't turn the little sweethearts down, but I can't afford to buy something that I won't even eat.

To post about the thread topic: people are sue-happy, and I'm beginning to hate mankind. That's why I'm becoming a teacher, to mold future minds into ones that will be more like I want the world to be like. It's quite an awesome power.

Hell, no. 4.00 for a box of dry cookies is alright if you are friends or family supporting the kids, but I don't buy them - ever

FloridaChief · 02-04-2005, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by angel

Is it wrong that I run when I see Girl Scouts with their cookie selling sheets? I'm a poor college student forced to work all day at an elementary school... and pay for the work that I do. I keep seeing these little girls with the cookie selling sheets coming down the hall, so I duck into the nearest open doorway to avoid being asked. I can't turn the little sweethearts down, but I can't afford to buy something that I won't even eat.

To post about the thread topic: people are sue-happy, and I'm beginning to hate mankind. That's why I'm becoming a teacher, to mold future minds into ones that will be more like I want the world to be like. It's quite an awesome power.

Amazing that you're an educator and yet believe you have even an ounce of power over children's minds...

Naive, much?

FloridaChief · 02-04-2005, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by angel

I'm beginning to hate mankind.

Congratulations. You're on the right track...

**Rain Man** · 02-04-2005, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by KCWolfman

Maybe I am alone, but doesn't this sound fishy to anyone else?

Two teenage girls wanted to avoid cursing at a party so they stayed home, baked cookies, sat them on people's doorsteps, knocked, and ran away giggling madly.

Something just doesn't click. Is the reporter related to them? I am surprised I didn't read about a small child they found in a well and rescued at the same time. And why would they "bang on the door repeatedly" if they wanted to surprise someone?

That said, I don't understand the judgement against them at all. Why are they liable because a stupid broad got scared?

I find this odd, too, especially since neither of them is wearing those amish bonnets.

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KCWolfman Fall down 7 times, get up 8 Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $10004900	Maybe I am alone, but doesn't this sound fishy to anyone else? Two teenage girls wanted to avoid cursing at a party so they stayed home, baked cookies, sat them on people's doorsteps, knocked, and ran away giggling madly. Something just doesn't click. Is the reporter related to them? I am surprised I didn't read about a small child they found in a well and rescued at the same time. And why would they "bang on the door repeatedly" if they wanted to surprise someone? That said, I don't understand the judgement against them at all. Why are they liable because a stupid broad got scared? __________________ How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams
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