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Dingy bitch sues teenage girls for baking her cookies. Wins.

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Lemurnator

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We got some fucking dingbat bitches in this country I swear.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2691638,00.html
Cookie klatch lands girls in court

Two Durango teens thought they'd surprise neighbors with nighttime deliveries of home-baked treats. But one woman was so terrified, she sued and has won.

By Electa Draper
Denver Post Staff Writer

Post / Shaun Stanley
Taylor Ostergaard, left, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti hold one of the plates of cookies they dropped on neighbors’ porches in July. One recipient sued, saying the gift spurred a trip to the emergency room.

Durango - Two teenage girls decided one summer's evening to skip a dance where there might be cursing and drinking to stay home and bake cookies for their neighbors.

Big mistake.

They were sued, successfully, for an unauthorized cookie drop on one porch.

The July 31 deliveries consisted of half a dozen chocolate-chip and sugar cookies accompanied by big hearts cut out of red or pink construction paper with the message: "Have a great night."

The notes were signed, "Love, The T and L Club," code for Taylor Ostergaard, then 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, 18.

Inside one of the nine scattered rural homes south of Durango that got cookies that night, a 49-year-old woman became so terrified by the knocks on her door around 10:30 p.m. that she called the sheriff's department. Deputies determined that no crime had been committed.

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But Wanita Renea Young ended up in the hospital emergency room the next day after suffering a severe anxiety attack she thought might be a heart attack.

A Durango judge Thursday awarded Young almost $900 to recoup her medical bills. She received nothing for pain and suffering.

"The victory wasn't sweet," Young said Thursday afternoon. "I'm not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson."
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Taylor's mother, Jill Ostergaard, said her daughter "cried and cried" after Judge Doug Walker handed down his decision in La Plata County Small Claims Court.

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

The judge said that he didn't think the girls acted maliciously but that it was pretty late at night for them to be out. He didn't award any punitive damages.

Taylor and Lindsey declined to comment Thursday, saying only that they didn't want to say anything hurtful.

Young said the girls showed "very poor judgment."

But Taylor had asked her father's permission to bake cookies for the neighbors after livestock-tending chores were done.

"I said, 'Go ahead, as long as I get some cookies,"' Richard Ostergaard said Thursday.

Just as dusk arrived a little after 9 p.m., Taylor and Lindsey began their mad spree. They didn't stop at houses that were dark. But where lights shone, the girls figured people were awake and in need of cookies. A kitchen light was on at Young's home.

Court records contain half a dozen letters from neighbors who said that they enjoyed the unexpected treats.

The cookies were good. It was a nice surprise. They weren't scared.

But Young, home with her own 18-year-old daughter and her elderly mother, said she saw shadowy figures who banged and banged at her door. When she called out, "Who's there?" no one answered. The figures ran off.

She thought perhaps they were burglars or some neighbors she had tangled with in the past, she said.

"We just wanted to surprise them," Taylor said.

Young left her home that night to stay at her sister's, but her symptoms, including shaking and an upset stomach, wouldn't subside. The next morning she went to Mercy Medical Center.

"We feel that knocking on a door and leaving cookies is a gesture of kindness and would not create an anxiety attack in the general public," Taylor's parents wrote to the court.

The girls wrote letters of apology to Young. Taylor's letter, written a few days after the episode, said in part: "I didn't realize this would cause trouble for you. ... I just wanted you to know that someone cared about you and your family."

The families had offered to pay Young's medical bills if she would agree to indemnify the families against future claims.

Young wouldn't sign the agreement. She said the families' apologies rang false and weren't delivered in person. The matter went to court.

Young said she believes that the girls should not have been running from door to door late at night.

"Something bad could have happened to them," she said.
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Matlock

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Everyone's stupid in this situation. Especially the judge, who thought "hey, a panic attack the next day" had to be related.
 
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Lemurnator

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This might cheer you up I hope.

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Manabanana

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Young, home with her own 18-year-old daughter and her elderly mother, said she saw shadowy figures who banged and banged at her door. When she called out, "Who's there?" no one answered. The figures ran off.

She thought perhaps they were burglars or some neighbors she had tangled with in the past, she said.
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Burglars who knocked on the door...Bunch of fucking morons. She deserved a god damned heart attack.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
I hope to soon see a news article that while this lady was out one day her house was draped in toilet paper and egged by the entire neighborhood... adults included. 17 and 18... and 10:30pm is too late to be out? WTF?!?!?!?

She thought perhaps they were burglars or some neighbors she had tangled with in the past, she said.
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Oh so it sounds like she's one of THOSE neighbors... you know the kind that calls the police when the kids are playing too loud in the street, etc...
 
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Killkernal

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Anytime someone knocks on my door after 10:30 pm I have to assume it's a bloodthirsty killer sent by 'The Man' to off me. WTF, did she think they were very polite burglars?

These kinds of idiotic lawsuits....they piss me off something fierce.
 
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Guzim

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DarienA said:
Oh so it sounds like she's one of THOSE neighbors... you know the kind that calls the police when the kids are playing too loud in the street, etc...
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The kind that drives around in their car hoping to find a reason to call the cops.
 
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ConfusingJazz

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So wait, the bitch gets to sue the girls because of her emotional trauma? What about the girls who she is suing? Christ, is the judge not even thinking about how this suit is treating these two girls who did nothing BUT GIVE FUCKING COOKIES?

GAH, fucking fucks. That judge needs to be stripped of her powers and that lady who sued needs some mental threapy. And those girls need to be given cookies and other cool things for being so nice and being treated like shit.
 
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Tarazet

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They should rent a bulldozer, drive it slowly towards her house and see what kind of panic attack that causes.
 
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FortNinety

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Is it just me, or the power of the internet to relay info lightning fast, or are there just more retard lawsuits popping up everyday?
 
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teiresias

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Or the woman's easily obtainable phone number could be posted on GAF and the prank phone calls could ensue.

Hey, worked with the old lady that killed my friend by hitting him with a car.
 
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GLoK

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UltimateMarioMan said:
...Any Canadian's need an American roommate?
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no, we don't want you. Litigious Nature may be genetic and traveling in the blood of EVERY AMERICAN. :D
 
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Tarazet

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Deg said:
The law sounds like a mess here. They need to make sure this stuff doesnt happen again.
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Thing is, this has nothing to do with the law. Absolutely zero. That's the distinction of civil trial vs. criminal trial.
 
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belgurdo

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teiresias said:
Or the woman's easily obtainable phone number could be posted on GAF and the prank phone calls could ensue.
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LET'S SHAKE AND BAKE, Y'ALL

I'll inform Something Awful. You guys fire up the search engines

In fact, the Denver Post has forums available about this story. Post it up and let the locals go to work!
 
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Lyte Edge

All I got for the Vernal Equinox was this stupid tag
Litigation Manuel said:
I hope someone knocks on her door late at night, every night, for the rest of her life.
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:lol

That lady is SO stupid. Thieves/killers knock on your door AFTER 11pm.

Anyway:

-10:30 is LATE for two (almost) 18 year olds to be out? HUH?
-A knock on the door means someone means you harm? The fuck?

So basically what these girls learned is that you shouldn't try to do nice things for people in your neighborhood. Got it. Thanks.
 
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impirius

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Young said she believes that the girls should not have been running from door to door late at night.

"Something bad could have happened to them," she said.
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Yes, like getting sued by a 49-year-old dingbat
 
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Seth C

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"I'm not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson."

Lesson learned. Instead of trying to be friendly and good-natured unlike so many young people today, maybe they should be depressed and violent. Hey, maybe they should steal your car, take it for a drunken joy ride and then urinate in it!
 
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Mama Smurf

My penis is still intact.
Durango - Two teenage girls decided one summer's evening to skip a dance where there might be cursing and drinking to stay home and bake cookies for their neighbors.
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:lol God that's funny.

those girls are ugly. who cares?
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God you're a tosser.
 
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Drensch

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I hope to soon see a news article that while this lady was out one day her house was draped in toilet paper and egged by the entire neighborhood... adults included.
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I hope someone knocks on her door late at night, every night, for the rest of her life.
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This bitch needs to be the target of every single HS prankster within 100 miles.
 
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nitewulf

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Lyte Edge said:
So basically what these girls learned is that you shouldn't try to do nice things for people in your neighborhood. Got it. Thanks.
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also, they learned that they should go out partying, get drunk and screw around instead.
 
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kablooey

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We should just make a massive conglomerate thread (in which this thread, and others like it would be included) entitled:

Batshit Insane People in Jesusland Do Batshit Insane Things.

A nice ring, no? :D
 
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