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 ...
DOH.
I fell trap to the double negative. Thanks for catching that. Meant to say people think the girls ARE lucky they weren't shot.
Sure CC, you're notorious for jumping in with off the wall opinions and then p'ing and moaning when you're called on them.
I thought that was what you meant. ;o)
Hiya!
"Except if you read on, it looks like there were two conditions: 1. seeing the bill (makes sense to me that they would want proof of the expense before paying it), and 2. the woman had to agree not to sue for additional money. The second condition also makes sense, otherwise paying could, I think, be seen as automatic admission of liability and, rather than resolving the issue, would open the door to more damages. Both of those conditions seem reasonable to me..."
But here is the rub, as soon as you treat the issue as a legal issue with contracts to sign, the signing party may feel that the issue goes beyond families solving a private fuss and it enters the legal realm. I think the the "cookie" kook was probably legally correct in involving the local small claims court as a means of preserving her rights and having an official record. I don't think it was a question of the medical bills, they are easy to prove. In the end, the court did what the families should have done privately and moved on from, made the families pay the medical bills with the aggrieved party agreeing not to hold any further damages against them.
Now the families of the girls are flapping their wings like wounded birds, trying to heap shame and negative public opinion on the woman who actually had the harm done to her. The cookie "kook" may now have a case for public harrassment and loss of income be cause the Ostergaards, et al didn't know when to "Shut Up"! and take their lumps!
Now I'm sure the teens them-selves meant no real harm in their "random act of kindness", but I may not mean to hurt an old man if I accidentally knock him down. Yet, guess who is going to pay his unpaid medical bills...ME!
The lady was alone, and scared, prone to anxiety attacks. Its a dark night, and kids ringing door bells and running away have provoked some folks to even shoot at them. The lady thinks she is having a heart attack and goes to the ER. The girls and their families are culpable, despite some folks feelings about anxiety disorders as being beneath discussion.
100 years ago, the families would have settled on it verbally. Now every-one wants to be a lawyer or use one.
What's worse, the Cookie "kook", may now have a legitimate claim of public harrassment...starting with Mike Savage!
Yes, indeed, but most rural folks do not hide their car so that it was not visible in the driveway, ring the doorbell and hide. The woman saw the shadow of a person. I am not a city girl. I know that most folks in rural areas have more sense than to pull a prank such as these girls.
If you are a rural resident, you should realize that there is a lot of crazy meth users in rural areas as well as the city. Sorry, but your little scenerio of a safe rural haven is bogus.
By the way, no guns were involved in this episode.
At home with a group of THREE people is "alone"?
yep, all three alone together.
Hasn't changed the phone number.
STILL blames "the cookies".
"All this over cookies," Renea [Wanita] Young said.
Still bleats to the press her side hasn't been properly presented, then adds NOTHING to "her side".
I have several hammers of various sizes & types, and ALL of them are smarter than "Cookie Monster" & her hubby.
The girls have said they delivered the cookies to all the houses by knocking on the door firmly three times, then promptly leaving, so the recipient would be surprised by finding fresh cookies when they opened the door. Rather than finding the crumbs the racoons left, in the morning.
As they have credibilty on this, I believe them, rather than the crazy lady who has been determined, medically and legally, to have an over-active and paranoid imagination.
The court dismissed her claims for pain and suffering and emotional damage. That's as got as saying she should have signed the waiver - which is now moot as she's had her day in court.
"Renea Young was alone in her isolated country home with her daughter and ailing elderly mother. Her husband was out of town."
I'll let the direct quote from the article better explain it!
A nervous mom, a school age daughter and sick mother out in the country in the dark.
A knock on the door, skulking shadows, and husband not at home. (Many Freepers would have been advocating shooting first and asking questions later.) She gets anxiety attack and chest pains, maybe a potential MI. She goes to hospitial, bills are generated.
I know the teens didn't mean any real harm, which is the shame of it...but harm was done.
Amen....Mike Gallagher is not nearly the smart conservative that I thought he was.....sad.
Oh my ! What if the wind blows and something goes bump in the night? Who will she sue then?
Good post. I agree.
Nope
Also starting with Mike Gallagher.
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