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Girl Scouts Sue Deadbeat Cookie Buyers
The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel/AP ^
| April 29 2005
| AP
Posted on 04/29/2005 9:56:44 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Girl Scout cookies aren't free, as a few alleged deadbeats are about to find out. One scout group has filed small-claims lawsuits against people who failed to pay up.
Christine Slowinski, communications director for the Girl Scouts' Great Blue Heron Council, said the legal action Thursday came only after several efforts to collect the money from sales of cookies in the annual fund-raising campaign over the past two years.
The amounts owed by two couples and three other women ranged from $301.42 to $1,485.68.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: cookies; girlscouts; lawsuit
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To: MisterRepublican
Who the heck buys $1400 worth of girl scout cookies??
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:59:07 AM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: MisterRepublican
I think I still owe money for some I bought about thirty years ago. I think my parents might have paid for them.
This is when they were huge, not the mini cookies, but real size cookies.
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:59:16 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Rumsfeld for President - 2008)
To: MisterRepublican
"
Are these made from real girl scouts?"Wednesday of The Adams Family
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posted on
04/29/2005 9:59:57 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: MisterRepublican
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:00:23 AM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: MisterRepublican
How do these folks get cookies on credit? In my neighborhood it's a "no money, no cookie" policy.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:03:01 AM PDT
by
texgal
(end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
To: norraad
"Are these made from real girl scouts?" Don't laugh. I was drummed out of the Cub Scouts for eating brownies.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:04:38 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: ladtx
To: Paleo Conservative
To: norraad
"Are these made from real girl scouts?"
A classic line, of course. Thanks.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:06:13 AM PDT
by
BikerNYC
To: Richard Kimball
I quit buying'm when I found out they weren't made out of real girl scouts. Seriously I was glad when all twenty seven of my co-workers' daughters outgrew the girl scouts. No wonder there's obesity in America.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:06:24 AM PDT
by
Calusa
(it’s a mere fig leaf of fairness.)
To: texgal
Don't they do the pledge system thingy? You say i'll buy 10 boxes, then the girls bring them over later and collect the cash. If not, it could be a friend of the family. Daughter sells someone x amount of boxes, her mother covers the costs and then gets the money from her friend later.
Then again if someone said they'd buy 280 boxes (i dunno what they cost, but assuming 5 bucks a box 1400 bucks = 280) I'd try and get a deposit. Also i don't know if you could sue someone for saying they'd by x amount, then going back and saying they won't.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:08:05 AM PDT
by
tfecw
(Vote Democrat, It's easier than working)
To: ladtx
When it was time for my daughter to sell cookies, I read the fine print. It essentially said that I would be responsible to pay for the cookies ordered, leaving the onus on me to collect from the buyers at distribution time. Needless to say, we didn't sell cookies. I didn't want to be stuck owing $$ from people who decided they didn't want the cookies or couldn't pay.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:08:05 AM PDT
by
pops88
(Geek Chick Parachutist Over Phorty)
To: ladtx
Who the heck buys $1400 worth of girl scout cookies??The people who sell them.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:08:13 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Evolution is amazing... I wonder who invented it?)
To: MisterRepublican
I suspect these were people who took the cookies to sell, and never paid for them, either dumping the cookies or pocketing the proceeds.
Been there, seen that happen.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:08:51 AM PDT
by
js1138
(e unum pluribus)
To: Protagoras
Yup. These people sold the cookies and never sent in the money. It's quite a problem in some areas.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:09:15 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: BikerNYC
I don't remember how much Girl Scout cookies are, but let's say they are $3.50 a box. If someone owes $1485, then they bought 424 boxes of cookies!? Something seems fishy about that.
To: Protagoras
Oh good grief. My post got pulled. Well, the people bugging out were right. I'm outta here.
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:10:04 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)
To: ladtx
Who the heck buys $1400 worth of girl scout cookies??Michael Moore?
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posted on
04/29/2005 10:10:16 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Planned Parenthood is neither.)
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