Couple take lumps since cookie suit

Denver Post ^ | Feb. 17, 2005 | Electa Draper

[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.

[iconoclast]

"Our home is like a funeral parlor," Renea Young said. "They've robbed us of our laughter. My spirit, my soul, is damaged."

Anyone else feel another lawsuit coming on?

[kemathen7]

That sounds like a personal problem. Several others seemed to have no problem.

[Jeff Gordon]

Is there a fund to send money to the girls to help cover their fines?

A radio station in their area has collected over $5,000 to cover the fines. The excess is going to charity.

[talleyman]

"Our home is like a funeral parlor," Renea Young said. "They've robbed us of our laughter. My spirit, my soul, is damaged."

Melodrama Queen. "Paging Oprah Winfrey!..."

[dts32041]

Don't have pit bulls, but I have been known to discharge a fire arm a people who disturb my peace on my land.

I rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.

Wish some of you people would do a little research and find out what really happened.

But know this is free republic and sometimes we follow the pack mentality.

[layman]

"Renea Young was alone in her isolated country home with her daughter and ailing elderly mother."

She was alone with two other people. If her husband had been home she would have been alone with three other people. who writes this stuff?

[Hildy]

Who would disagree with you? But to go to those lengths to punish an unintentional wrong is ... just ... bitchy.

[NonValueAdded]

Boo frickin' hoo. They have reaped what they sowed. This is simply part of the settlement, the unspoken part. I haven't called or mailed them but my sentiments seem to have been expressed by plenty of others.

[Mr. Lucky]

You shoot little girls who leave cookies on your porch?

A real tough guy, eh?

[kemathen7]

What makes you think we haven't done research? I've read numerous articles about the cookie caper, and I also met the girls when they were in Denver for their fundraiser.

Calm down.

[Cyber Liberty]

You're correct: It's personal. I can't stand incompetence

Funny, I get exactly your remark whenever I catch a government worker doing something stupid. "You're the only person to complain."

Plenty of folks never bothered posting to your silly thread because of it...you just don't hear about it.

I was trying to help you out, but you are obviously beyond all that.

[dts32041]

Little girls teenagers in college?

[Larry Lucido]

Yea? So how come when I bring you cookies at 11pm every night, you take out a restraining order against me? Hmmm? :-)

[kemathen7]

You're right ... I am beyond all that.

And I didn't ask for your help. Thanks, though.

[BushisTheMan]

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."

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So the teenagers mother offered but never paid. Interesting.

[dts32041]

Just know the pack mentality sometimes that goes on here, but then again, but sometimes there is more than pack mentality at work.

[iconoclast]

May the kids get what they deserve in the next life.

Ah, the nut fringe arrives.

[Welsh Rabbit]

When she finally found a condo, within two months she was suing everyone who touched the deal and the condo because it had a "mold problem."

Was her lawsuit successful?

[.38sw]

It is interesting, but if it had been me in that situation, I wouldn't have gone as far as a lawsuit. Of course, if it had been me, I wouldn't have needed a visit to the emergency room because somebody pounded on my door late at night and left a plate of cookies. Although I wouldn't have eaten the cookies, either...