Twelvepole
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posted on February 5, 2005 08:25:43 AM new
Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor
Fri Feb 4,10:49 PM ET
DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.
The pair were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs after neighbor Wanita Renea Young, 49, filed a lawsuit complaining that the unsolicited cookies, left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day.
Taylor Ostergaard, then 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitte, 18, paid the judgment on Thursday after a small claims court ruling by La Plata County Court Judge Doug Walker, a court clerk said on Friday.
The girls baked cookies as a surprise for several of their rural Colorado neighbors on July 31 and dropped off small batches on their porches, accompanied by red or pink paper hearts and the message: "Have a great night."
The Denver Post newspaper reported on 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.
But Young said she was frightened because the two had knocked on her door at about 10:30 p.m. and run off after leaving the cookies.
She went to a hospital emergency room the next day, fearing that she had suffered a heart attack, court records said.
The judge awarded Young her medical costs, but did not award punitive damages. He said he did not think the girls had acted maliciously but that 10:30 was fairly late at night for them to be out.
Judge should of thrown this out, talk about frivolous.
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Helenjw
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posted on February 5, 2005 09:03:42 AM new
The neighbor is probably a victim of the prevailing fear culture. Maybe the teens should send her a little music... 
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away...
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parklane64
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posted on February 5, 2005 09:39:32 AM new
Next time leave a bag of burning dog #*!@ on her porch.
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liberalism, the last bastion of elitism
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classicrock000
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posted on February 5, 2005 11:44:38 AM new
LOL PARK !!
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Roadsmith
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posted on February 5, 2005 05:29:20 PM new
It's what they say: No good deed goes unpunished.
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Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed?
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dadofstickboy
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posted on February 5, 2005 05:39:11 PM new
Your typical:
Liberal, Bleeding Heart,Democrat,Society at work.
And, I'm not talking about the girls.
I'm talking about the Old B_i_t_c_h who took them to court, And the A_s_s H_o_l_e judge who allowed it into court!
Trama,Heart Attacks, just because someone knocked on a Door!
Such Horse S_h_i_t!!
[ edited by dadofstickboy on Feb 5, 2005 05:41 PM ]
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profe51
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posted on February 5, 2005 09:13:20 PM new
Talk about horseshit:
Your typical:
Liberal, Bleeding Heart,Democrat,Society at work.
Not everything is a lib-con issue. There are morons on both sides, and straight down the middle.
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Dick Cheney: "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11..."
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fenix03
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posted on February 5, 2005 09:35:15 PM new
Cookie girls won't have to pay fine, Station raises money
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) - Two teenage girls who got in trouble for surprising their neighbors with homemade cookies will not have to pay nearly $1,000 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.
Radio station KOA-AM of Denver raised more than $1,900 from listeners Friday to pay the girls' $930.78 fine. The rest of the money will go to a charity dedicated to victims of the Columbine High School massacre.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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twig125silver
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posted on February 6, 2005 09:04:53 AM new
I agree with profe, there are whackos on both sides.....
parklane- I really like the dog poo idea, somehow seems more fitting for this woman.
I'll bet she really gets hit next Halloween.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on February 6, 2005 09:40:03 AM new
Sure there are Wacko's on both sides taking advantage of the system,no argument there.
But just who are the stupid A$$ law makers that wrote the asinine laws in the first place?
Allowing this kind of Crap to find it's way into our Court system.
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crowfarm
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posted on February 6, 2005 12:09:44 PM new
My, my, for posters who are so easily wounded by words on a computer screen SOME are sure insensitive and downright nasty to others.
Such loving, caring posts............
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Twelvepole
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posted on February 6, 2005 12:16:01 PM new
I am curious as to how your post added anything about the topic of this thread crowfart? Or you just trolling...
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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crowfarm
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posted on February 6, 2005 12:22:02 PM new
As usual I'm doing what I damn please
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Twelvepole
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posted on February 6, 2005 12:27:27 PM new
So in other words you have nothing add about the topic, but attack other posters here...
Do you always enjoy going someplace you are not wanted?
AIN'T LIFE GRAND...
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crowfarm
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posted on February 6, 2005 01:16:44 PM new
HA! YOU want me twelve or you wouldn't respond to every post I make .......fool
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profe51
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posted on February 6, 2005 01:41:29 PM new
But just who are the stupid A$$ law makers that wrote the asinine laws in the first place?
I don't know, but presumably they're lawmakers that people voted for.
Allowing this kind of Crap to find it's way into our Court system.
Anyone can bring small claims suit against anyone for any kind of perceived damage. As much as you'd like to blame every act of stupidity you see on boogeyman liberals, it's really a bit more complicated than that.
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Twelvepole
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posted on February 6, 2005 03:12:06 PM new
Yeah I want you so much I am going to meet you face to face this year...
AIN'T LIFE GRAND...
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classicrock000
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posted on February 6, 2005 05:14:41 PM new
twelve-bring a bag with ya
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kiara
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posted on February 6, 2005 06:25:51 PM new
Good idea, Classic! Twelve can use it to carry a clean pair of shorts. Trust me, he's going to need them right after Crow's big hunk of a husband answers the door.
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Twelvepole
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posted on February 6, 2005 06:49:53 PM new
ROFL, don't you wish kiara... I think her big hunk of a husband is more like Mr. Sandman...
AIN'T LIFE GRAND...
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dadofstickboy
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posted on February 6, 2005 06:55:53 PM new
I can hear (Fart) Now:
Mr.Sandman bring me a dream,
Make it a Twelve"pole like I've never seen.
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classicrock000
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posted on February 7, 2005 02:21:52 AM new
" ROFL, don't you wish kiara... I think her big hunk of a husband is more like Mr. Sandman"
ya know she must have married a democrat..the dudes gotta be a liberal pansy ass pussy.
hey-I like that..liberal pansy ass pussy..say that five times fast.
[ edited by classicrock000 on Feb 7, 2005 03:25 AM ]
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