Seems like some Freepers are really jumping to conclusions.
The original post is just another in a series of knee-jerk reactions that promulgate the myth of "frivolous lawsuits."
Wanita Young:
"We heard this horrible banging on the door, like someone was trying to break it down," she told the newspaper. "I ran upstairs and called out 'Who's there?' three or four times. But no one answered me and when I looked out the window, there weren't any vehicles in sight. But I could see the silhouette of someone on the other side of the window. I got really scared and called the sheriff's department."
Three sheriff's deputies arrived and found the cookies along with a note that read: "Have a great night. Love, The T and L Club." The "T and L Club" stood for Taylor and Lindsey.
The deputies didn't know what the note meant and suggested the Young stay in a motel that night. Young's husband was out of town so she took her 86-year-old mother and 19-year-old daughter to her sister's house in Farmington, N.M.
"Driving down there, I was throwing up and feeling a lot of pressure in my chest," she told the Herald. "I thought I might be having a heart attack."
Young, 49, went to a medical center emergency room the next morning and her hospital bill was more than $1,400. Doctors diagnosed her problem as an anxiety attack.
This is not a knee jerk reaction. To sue for this type of damages there has to be some sort of outrageous behavior. This might not have been the best idea in the book, but it surely was not beyond all bounds of social decency.
ooops. Well, I guess the girls should have rung the doorbell, come earlier, and signed their full names and noted that they were neighbors and wished her a good evening.And, they should have waited until the door was answered, or put their phone numbers on the note. What a mess.
Good post. Thanks.