Update on the Cookie bandits

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Remember the two girls who did a nice thing by leaving cookies for their neighbors, then got sued?

There's an update.

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) - Two teenage girls who got in trouble for surprising their neighbors with homemade cookies will not have to pay nearly $1,000 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.

Radio station KOA-AM of Denver raised more than $1,900 from listeners Friday to pay the girls' $930.78 fine. The rest of the money will go to a charity dedicated to victims of the Columbine High School massacre.

Hell, I'd give the extra money to the girls!

But it gets better.

Meanwhile, Richard Ostergaard, father of Taylor, got a restraining order against Young's husband, Herb, in county court, claiming he continues to make harassing telephone calls to the Ostergaard residence.

Not content with suing teenage girls, huh? The Youngs seem to be real winners.

Wanita Young said, "This has turned into quite a fiasco. It's something that never should have happened and it's just devastating. My phone hasn't stopped ringing. My life has been threatened and I'll probably have to move out of town."

Good riddance! You're a paranoid, vindictive twit! Hell, a normal person would have accepted the girls' apology and their offer to pay the medical expenses. But no, you7 had to drag them into court! Of course you're hated by the entire country now!

Comments

[odanu.livejournal.com]

What makes you think I'm Canadian? My bio clearly states where I am writing from, and I am no where near the Canadian border. In fact, I am within half a mile of a potentially significant terrorist target...a Presidential library.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

I don't generally surf people's bios when responding to comments. Talk about creepy stalker vibes. My apologies for mistaking you for a Canadian? (Not wanting to offend Canadians, or you, even though your bio states that you enjoy troll-baiting.)

A Presidential library is no more of a terrorist target than ten thousand other middle-rank Federal buildings. And how did we change from crime to terrorism? (Never mind that I consider all the terrorism to date to be much ado about nearly nothing -- i.e. a couple of monstrous criminal acts somehow artificially inflated to the status of war.)

At present my neighbors are living in fear. I'm trying to change that, but in the meantime, the space thirty feet in front of my place has a higher crime rate than most inner-city bus stations. The 415 physical I interrupted was a scumbag beating his girlfriend on the sidewalk out front. Similar incidents have happened three times in the last month.

Your bio also states that you are a liberal / armed Libertarian -- and implies that you are a nifty person. While your defense plans are none of my business, casually answering the door without checking first to see who it is can have very unpleasant consequences. This is a common MO for home-invasion robbers, sexual predators, police-assisted asset forfeiture, and other ills.

Thanks for your opinions.

[odanu.livejournal.com]

I don't have a peephole or an accessible front window. I do generally call out "who is it" and wait for an answer, and if I don't get it, I circle around from the back of the house to see who it is. I do have two dogs much larger (50 lbs +) than my little alarm terrier, both of whom are likely to attack anyone who attacks me, though both are gentle family dogs. I don't want to give the impression that I take no precautions. I do. I just don't worry about them much.