No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Just when you think that the United States was as litigious as possible, you read something like this:
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.”
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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.
But it even gets more ridiculous:
The girls wrote letters of apology to Young. Taylor’s letter, written a few days after the episode, said in part: “I didn’t realize this would cause trouble for you. … I just wanted you to know that someone cared about you and your family.”The families had offered to pay Young’s medical bills if she would agree to indemnify the families against future claims.
Young wouldn’t sign the agreement. She said the families’ apologies rang false and weren’t delivered in person. The matter went to court.
Young said she believes that the girls should not have been running from door to door late at night.
“Something bad could have happened to them,” she said.
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Something bad….yeah, like getting sued!
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what was the woman awarded? 900 bucks? the lawyer takes home $600 after expenses? great deal.
the headline should read: “two denver extortionists sell own souls to devil, earn right to split $900 booty”
last i checked, a simple 911 call would have prevented that anxiety attack. i say countersue.
information on where to send donations to help the girls cover the ludicrous judgment can be made here: http://www.997wtn.com/p_stevegill.cfm
audio archive of the interview: http://www.997wtn.com/page.cfm?pid=60
Even if that woman somehow won the lawsuit, no amount of money can make her sane.
I think if more folks used their constitutional right to keep guns in their house, there would be less fear of good Samaritans and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Its time we made a gun in every home mandatory for all Americans.
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Hundreds of blogs have noted the case from Durango, Colo. (see our Feb. 4 post) in which Wanita Renea Young sued teenagers Taylor Ostergaard and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, who’d baked homemade cookies, delivered them to…
I suffer anxiety attacks. They can make you feel out of control, but most anyone who suffers this problem knows it is your own thought process that triggers the actual attack. We can see that Wanita’s thought process is abnormal, so it’s not surprising that this paranoid individual reacted the way she did. The prospect of getting money for laying blame was too much temptation to resist. Well Wanita, you thought you were anxious before? How does it feel to be Public Enemy Number One?
crazy is as crazy does. no good deed goes unpunished. Jesus loves you. He healed the sick, gave sight to the blind… They nailed him to a cross of wood, and yet he made the hill on which it stood. He paid a debt he did not owe, I owe a debt i can not pay.