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Couple take lumps since cookie suit
Denver Post ^ | Feb. 17, 2005 | Electa Draper

Posted on 02/17/2005 9:21:26 AM PST by kemathen7

Durango - Herb Young turned the telephone off again Tuesday after it rang at 12:40 a.m.

One recent caller had told him that "you should be found dead in a ditch."

Nine out of 10 calls to his house are from "crackpots," he said, ever since a plate of cookies and a case in La Plata County Small Claims Court turned life upside down.

(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: attackofkillercookie; colorado; cookiecrumbles; cookies; nogooddeedunpunished; paybacksahillary; psycholady
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To: saminfl

You mean someone reasonable and not hateful?


221 posted on 02/17/2005 1:13:32 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: AaronInCarolina
Are you sure that is why they never paid? Per the article:

Young soon figured out who had left the cookies and complained to Taylor's mother, Jill Ostergaard. She said Ostergaard and Lindsey's mother, Martha, offered, "even insisted" on paying almost $900 in medical bills not covered by insurance. But the months dragged on, and the families never sent the money.

"I really tried to settle this out of court four different times," Young says. "I'm not sure where it all went bad."

222 posted on 02/17/2005 1:16:53 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: kemathen7
"Our home is like a funeral parlor," Renea Young said. "They've robbed us of our laughter. My spirit, my soul, is damaged."

I smell another lawsuit against the girls pending...

223 posted on 02/17/2005 1:18:22 PM PST by theDentist (Jerry Springer: PBS for White Trash)
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To: chemainus

I could care less whether you answer me or not.

With your hateful, name-calling, better-than-thou attitude, that would be preferable.

You disgust me more.


224 posted on 02/17/2005 1:18:30 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: rcocean

And I'm sure you phoned her calling her those names.

What does that make you?


225 posted on 02/17/2005 1:19:47 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: chemainus

And your opinions have been been so thought provoking. (not)


226 posted on 02/17/2005 1:20:44 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan

Troll.

I'm sure the people at DU miss you.


227 posted on 02/17/2005 1:21:20 PM PST by rcocean
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To: dmz

Actually it would depend on whether I thought the teenagers or their parents really intended to reimburse the money. If they didn't, possibly.

I think the parents could have taught their girls a valuable lesson of responsibility here but they blamed others.


228 posted on 02/17/2005 1:22:38 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan; rcocean

How about harridan? Crotchety? Future homeowner association president?


229 posted on 02/17/2005 1:23:42 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Original Kamaaina

If you disagree with some, you get called names...just like what happened to the Youngs. See how tolerant some are for other people's opinions?


230 posted on 02/17/2005 1:25:05 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: John D

Actually I'm a reasonable person who thinks the Youngs are getting a raw deal over this.


231 posted on 02/17/2005 1:26:15 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: cyborg

The possible adjectives are endless.

The important thing is that this "character" is shunned by decent society.


232 posted on 02/17/2005 1:26:52 PM PST by rcocean
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Nutbag...

You're such a kind hearted person. Made any calls to Colorado lately?


233 posted on 02/17/2005 1:27:16 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: kemathen7

Haven't read all these post, but I heard on a local radio station here in Colorado that these people have sue around a dozen times in the past.


234 posted on 02/17/2005 1:27:17 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: BushisTheMan

Since they had their parents' PERMISSION, what you propose is ridiculous.


236 posted on 02/17/2005 1:29:58 PM PST by Politicalmom (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.")
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To: BushisTheMan

I agree with you - I think the Youngs are getting a raw deal as well. I don't agree with the harassment (phone calls, letters, boxes, etc). However, I do take issue with the people that think the girls should've been shot for knocking on the Young's door. Thats unreasonable.


237 posted on 02/17/2005 1:31:01 PM PST by kemathen7
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To: teenyelliott

So in reality you are mad at the Youngs because they sued?

How do you think taxpayers end up paying for this one? The money to pay them apparently is coming from people like you who think the Youngs are evil for trying to recoop their expenses -- when they were doing nothing but minding their own businss at home?

Personally, if they were my kids, they would be giving up 1/2 their babysitting/job money for a long time until the debt was paid.


238 posted on 02/17/2005 1:31:02 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: BushisTheMan
I tend to fight for the underdog.

Yeah, I figured you for a trial lawyer.

240 posted on 02/17/2005 1:32:01 PM PST by iconoclast (Can anyone direct me to any place in our founding documents where "democracy" is mentioned?)
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