Teens fined over ‘cookie distress’
p2pnet.net OT News:- Speaking of unsolicited cookies, two teen-age girls have been ordered to pay about $900, “for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts,” says Reuters.
Apparently, a 49-year-old woman filed a lawsuit complaining the cookies, “left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day”.
The girls baked cookies as a surprise for several of their rural Colorado neighbors on July 31 and dropped off small batches on their porches, accompanied by red or pink paper hearts and the message: ‘Have a great night,’ says Reuters.
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unsolicited cookies - Cookie firms vs anti-Spyware bill, p2pnet, February 4, 2005
Have a great night – Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor, Reuters, February 5, 2005
February 4th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Ridiculous. I hope her lawyer takes all of the 900 bones.
February 5th, 2005 at 12:46 am
Just goes to show that anyone can sue anyone over anything.
February 5th, 2005 at 2:47 am
Yeah, I bet the poor girls will really want to be nice to people again.
That’s a lesson to all Americans: don’t care about your neighbor, ignore them as much as you can instead. Just make sure everybody lives in their little corner and keep on being asocial and isolated. That’s gonna make for a healty society.
February 5th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Here, here. Insular & xenophobic, that’s the way to be!
Loathe thy neighbour. Covet thine self.
It’s amazing how a sub-harmonic of fear can be nurtured within such a diverse and widespread nation. Perpetuated by the people themselves, the perfect control mechanism. Keep the populace cowed and fearful, give them the right to bear arms, fill their minds with images of ‘horrifying violence’ and ’scenes of devastation’. Flashcard hypnosis, social engineering, media domination.
In a society where it’s possible to sue the passing stranger who stop’s to give assistance to a car accident victim because they did not have the relevant qualifications to provide professional assistance, it seems only right that spreading a little goodwill among your community should be punishable by the full extent of the law… *ahem*
What really strikes me about this story is the fact that the neighbour lady was sufficiently alarmed to suffer an anxiety attack and require hospital assistance. Did she think they were laced with arsenic or something? Rohypnol maybe, baked by a big bad burglar, waiting for his moment to rob and rape her? Or maybe it could have been an Al-Quaeda bomb, or even filled with mind-control drugs to make her assasinate the president?
Perhaps i’m barking up the wrong tree here, this is all probably just another one of those ‘claims-r-us: sue your socks off for wearing yellow socks’ lawsuits. Baked up by some lonely housewife looking for a shot at Judge Judy style fame/infamy.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0410407/ – Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)
February 7th, 2005 at 7:50 am
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/nationworld/articles/1234767.html
nice to see people have come together and raised the fine for these kids…
-multi
February 9th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
I’m glad to see that there are still people over in the ’states with enough decency to take umbridge at this case. However, as nice as it may be for these girls to recieve donations to pay the ‘damages’ *ahem*, the poor, defenseless, cookiophobic neighbour still get’s her reward for twisting that moronic legal system to her own gain.
Personally I think this was all a big publicity stunt for a firm of lawyers. Imagine being the firm who can brag about being able to successfully sue two do-gooder’s for aggrivated assault with a remote cookie device!
You people deserve bush for another 4 years, after all, he’ll only be replaced by another corporate drone, fat off kickbacks from multi-billion dollar syndicates.