Posted on 02/04/2005 12:06:06 PM PST by Dog Gone
 Shaun Stanley / Associated Press Taylor Ostergaard, 17, left , and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, 18, display a plate of cookies similar to ones that the two made for neighbors last summer near Durango, Colo., startling one neighbor so badly she had to be hospitalized. |
Judge Doug Walker declined Thursday to award punitive damages, saying he did not believe the girls acted maliciously.
Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, 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.
Wanita Renea Young, 49, said she was at her rural home south of Durango around 10:30 p.m. when she said 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.
Frightened, she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach.
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 the girl "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 teens said they did not answer when the woman called out because they wanted the treats to be a surprise.
What does this teach our kids?
and the old bag was only 49, cmon.
Hopefully not to be around other people's houses in the dark without making it really clear what's going on.
Lucky they didn't get shot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335950/posts
The bitter old woman locked in her home is evil.
That there are piece of sh*t paranoid losers in the world and that you should avoid those types of people at all costs.
WTF? These girls did a sweet thing and wanted to give the woman a treat. If she's so easily spooked she had to be hospitalized that's not the girls' fault.
That it's just easier to be an SOB.
I learned that lesson a long time ago.
That it's a dumbass idea to prowl around someone's
house at night?
I think 10:30 at night is a little late to be delivering cookies.
Oh for cryin out loud. this is just absurd. Michael, this needs "just damn" treatment to alert everyone to the lunacy that still exists in the court system. Does anyone know if there is a fund to help?
Who is going to shoot them outside a home ?
Who delivers cookies at 10:30pm. Everyone knows 10pm is the cutoff. (Seinfeld)
Hopefully, not to go banging on doors at 10:30 p.m. and refusing to identify themselves before the door is opened.
The old bag better hope she never needs any of her neighbors. I am sure she is not well liked anymore.
Go to the thread in #5. This has already been discussed and there are addresses to use.
Shaking and an upset stomache. Looks like she was trolling for Quaaludes.
In Texas, they're fair game.
Just damn.
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