[beezdotcom]

Thanks for the sensible answer. I don't know if she went too far, because I'm not her.

Nor am _I_ her. And believe me, I understand what it's like to have to worry about every sound you hear outside. But since the article reports that the girls and their family apologized and offered to pay the medical bills, and she STILL sued, it does beg the question "was she just trying to rub their noses in it?"...

[Judith Anne]

Who knows? Did anyone say that or report that she was "trying to rub their noses in it"?

If so, I missed it. Still, it's possible, and I don't know the answer.

As a kid of 8, one time I walked up to a neighbor man, elderly, who was clipping roses. On a mischievous impulse, I said "BOO!" in a loud voice. He sat down on the ground, got a little bottle out of his pocket, and put a nitro under his tongue...he scolded me--he never had before--and it took a day for me to get over it, talk to my mom, and come back to apologize. He didn't have a heart attack, or even go to the hospital, but he was never welcoming to us kids after that, and I lost a good friend...