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.
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.
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Girls bake cookies for neighbors ~ and get sued!
Girls bake cookies for neighbors ~ and get sued!
Cass.....read that in this morning's paper.
I feel bad for the kids.....they meant well.
Guess, just wrong place, wrong person, wrong time!
xxxxxxooo
mama
I feel bad for the kids.....they meant well.
Guess, just wrong place, wrong person, wrong time!
xxxxxxooo
mama
Girls bake cookies for neighbors ~ and get sued!
I have been checking this out. I believe the woman was justified to sue for medical expenses due to this. The girls were on private property out in a rural area. They knocked on a door on an unlit side of the house and refuse to identify themselves. First of all, they should not have entered private property so late but if they did, they should have gone to a well lit side of the home or at least identified themselves. If someone started knocking on my backdoor, I would be freaking tripping, myself, not to mention getting no answer.
Girls bake cookies for neighbors ~ and get sued!
Minority Report wrote: It seems a little odd that people who knocked on a door as early as 10:30pm can be held responsible for a panic attack. The claimant must have been extremely panic-prone.
The trial judge said "it was pretty late at night for them to be out. " What planet is he living on? These girls were then aged 17 and 18.
Welcome to the garden.
People will do anything for money.
The trial judge said "it was pretty late at night for them to be out. " What planet is he living on? These girls were then aged 17 and 18.
Welcome to the garden.
People will do anything for money.