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  • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5 2005 12:31 PM

Neighborly Act Results in $900 Fine

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Two Colorado teenagers have been ordered to pay $900 in medical and court costs after a gift of cookies and paper hearts caused the recipient to experience anxiety and panic attacks.

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.


Forty-nine year old Wanita Renea Young, one of the neighbors who received the cookies, filed suit after being seen in the emergency room of a local hospital the next day. She claims that the gift, left on her doorstep at 10:30 p.m., had frightened her so badly that she thought she had experienced a heart attack.

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.

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Sphinx

Sphinx

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

FEB 05, 2005 01:42 PM

what a lamer.

WaTed

WaTed

United Kingdom
September 2002

FEB 05, 2005 01:46 PM

demetrius_z said:
Wait, you missed a photo. They look FUCKING EVIL mad eeek eeek mad eeek eeek



See?

EDIT: Wait, I didn't mean "FUCKING EVIL", I meant "sweet and cute", but not in a shaggable way.



You really sure about that?

I could see them starring in a Stephen King film adaptation. surreal

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

FEB 05, 2005 01:46 PM


The teenagersÂ’ families offered to pay YoungÂ’s medical bills, but she declined and sued, saying their apologies were not sincere and were not offered in person.



That woman is nasty.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

FEB 05, 2005 01:47 PM

WaTed said:

demetrius_z said:
EDIT: Wait, I didn't mean "FUCKING EVIL", I meant "sweet and cute", but not in a shaggable way.


You really sure about that?

I could see them starring in a Stephen King film adaptation. surreal


What, the cookies of skull skull DOOOOOM skull skull ?

ganzhimself

ganzhimself

Stevens Point, WI
November 2004

FEB 05, 2005 01:47 PM

WaTed said:

demetrius_z said:
Wait, you missed a photo. They look FUCKING EVIL mad eeek eeek mad eeek eeek



See?

EDIT: Wait, I didn't mean "FUCKING EVIL", I meant "sweet and cute", but not in a shaggable way.



You really sure about that?

I could see them starring in a Stephen King film adaptation. surreal


I don't know, I mean they look like your every day "normal" teenage girls. And this folks, is just another demonstration of how America is going to hell in a handbasket.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

FEB 05, 2005 01:54 PM

ganzhimself said:
I don't know, I mean they look like your every day "normal" teenage girls. And this folks, is just another demonstration of how America is going to hell in a handbasket.


Behind that plate they're both totally doing the shocker.

Bondgirl

Bondgirl

Aberdeen, SD
February 2004

FEB 05, 2005 01:56 PM

Are you serious!!!!! I need to check this out.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

FEB 05, 2005 01:59 PM

I'm totally going to sue that bastard postman, always pushing letters through my door. mad mad

Sexdwarf

Sexdwarf

Hermosa Beach, CA
February 2003

FEB 05, 2005 01:59 PM

More stupidity, I'm not surprised.

Alkaholic23

Alkaholic23

Boston, MA
January 2004

FEB 05, 2005 02:04 PM

if she ate the cookies, i'd leave a $900 bill on her door.

Tallboy66

Tallboy66

Chicago, IL
January 2005

FEB 05, 2005 02:06 PM

yes and at 10:30 pm you just know they were up to no good, they should have been asleep and dreaming of the boy that would marry them and have 2.3 children with. no good deed goes unpunished. blackeyed

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

FEB 05, 2005 02:07 PM

That's fucking ridiculous ... what a bitch.

angryphase

angryphase

United Kingdom
January 2005

FEB 05, 2005 02:08 PM

I don't know.... the one on the left has a distant look in her eyes that suggests deep vengeful spite.

She's evil I tells ya! frown puke skull eeek

Neyrissa

Neyrissa

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

FEB 05, 2005 02:08 PM

WHAT?!?!?! That's fucking rediculous!!!!

Andy_Hallam

Andy_Hallam

United Kingdom
April 2003

FEB 05, 2005 02:09 PM

Thats crazy, where is Mathew Broderick when you need him to fool the DoD computer into nuking Colerado?

No wait that wouldn't work cos then thos girls would get blown up too, DOH!!

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