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

[arib.livejournal.com]

I think it's great that a radio station did fundraising for them. Honestly, the whole situation's rediculous.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Only in America...

Seriously, that wwouldn't have happened up here. First off, no medical bills for that. Second, the lawsuit would have been thrown out of court.

[odanu.livejournal.com]

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.

Hell, a normal person would have opened the door, seen the cookies, and been thrilled about how sweet and nice these two girls were doing.

[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.