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Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 12:50 PM

Unbelievable!

Two girls decide to bake cookies for an old bag and she...sues them!

Lateralus · Feb 4, 2005, 12:57 PM

Yeah, incidents like this are why I stopped being nice to people about 10 years ago.

turtle777 · Feb 4, 2005, 12:58 PM

Only in America.

In every other country, the courts would have dismissed the case right away...

-t

demograph68 · Feb 4, 2005, 12:58 PM

Hahaha... losers!

roberto blanco · Feb 4, 2005, 01:08 PM

Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 01:15 PM

I can't believe the judge awarded the old bag anything.

brapper · Feb 4, 2005, 01:22 PM

what a bitch.
and the judge has just encouraged her to act irratioinally.

demograph68 · Feb 4, 2005, 01:26 PM

Let's not be so harsh.... maybe the cookies sucked.

Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 01:27 PM

Along with other people.

It's amazing, to be honest.

Those girls deserve commendations for being so kind and instead they are sued.

I hope hell has a special reservation set up for that old bag.

barang · Feb 4, 2005, 01:37 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
Only in America.

In every other country, the courts would have dismissed the case right away...

-t

You're totally right.

TheBadgerHunter · Feb 4, 2005, 01:44 PM

I'm highly suspicious of nice people doing anything, so I'll side with the old bag.

Plus I haven't been flamed for so long.

turtle777 · Feb 4, 2005, 01:47 PM

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
I'm highly suspicious of nice people doing anything, so I'll side with the old bag.
Plus I haven't been flamed for so long.

Well, being suspicious is not the problem. Being able to succesfully sue someone over oneself's idosyncratic suspicion is messed up...

-t

Xeo · Feb 4, 2005, 01:48 PM

That is really dumb. At least she didn't get pain and suffering which is obviously what she was after. The girls' families agreed to pay the medical bills before the court case and she took them to court anyway. Obviously she thought she could get some free cash from her neighbors.

That's really pathetic. Both how terrified the woman got and how foolish she was even after realizing the truth. The courts should have thrown it out, especially after receiving letters from all the other neighbors that loved it.

ReggieX · Feb 4, 2005, 01:50 PM

I still vote for the other one who lied about getting beat up by two different guys. They can share a cell together!

demograph68 · Feb 4, 2005, 01:50 PM

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
I'm highly suspicious of nice people doing anything, so I'll side with the old bag.

Plus I haven't been flamed for so long.

I agree. I love seeing goody two shoes get busted.

Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 01:51 PM

What kind of a pathetic person are you when a knock on the door at 10:30 at night sends you to the hospital?

Gimme a break.

If someone left cookies on my doorstep at night I would be suspicious, yes, but you know what?

We'd eat them and we'd say a prayer of thanks to whomever brought them because it would be a kind thing to do. I hope that the neighbors know what a pariah she is. I hope someone sues her for something. She can see what it feels like.

She's the ultimate bitch - and a loser also.

Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 01:53 PM

Here's another one.

It's a story about a lady who needs oxygen to breathe. She lit up (a cigarette) next to her oxygen tank and burst into flames and died because oxygen is combustible.

demograph68 · Feb 4, 2005, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
If someone left cookies on my doorstep at night I would be suspicious, yes, but you know what?

We'd eat them and...

'... die from poisoning because we're so damn gullible.'

Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 01:56 PM

Yeah, okay, we might die from poisoning.

THEN we'd have a lawsuit, wouldn't we?

demograph68 · Feb 4, 2005, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
It's a story about a lady who needs oxygen to breathe. She lit up (a cigarette) next to her oxygen tank and burst into flames and died because oxygen is combustible.

Don't be upset, at least it entertained you for a moment.

turtle777 · Feb 4, 2005, 01:56 PM

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
Here's another one.

It's a story about a lady who needs oxygen to breathe. She lit up (a cigarette) next to her oxygen tank and burst into flames and died because oxygen is combustible.

Well, at least she personally can't sue anyone.

-t

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Feb 4, 2005, 02:02 PM

Sick ****.

I wouldn't eat anything left of my front porch though.

Scientist · Feb 4, 2005, 02:05 PM

Young said she believes that the girls should not have been running from door to door late at night.

"Something bad could have happened to them," she said.

Yea, like getting sued by a crazy old lady...

turtle777 · Feb 4, 2005, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by Scientist:
Yea, like getting sued by a crazy old lady...

True dat...

-t

Cody Dawg · Feb 4, 2005, 02:09 PM

ROFL, Scientist!

Okay, so I thought about REALLY eating those cookies.

If they looked great, smelled freshly baked, yeah, I'd nibble one.

If I didn't get sick I'd figure they were okay. I'd think that one of my neighbors had left them, that's all.

At least I'd assume that the intentions were good and honest, not like the bitch of the story that assumed intentions were bad.

Turias · Feb 4, 2005, 02:11 PM

It's stories like this that really make me fear for humanity.

deej5871 · Feb 4, 2005, 02:14 PM

Originally posted by Scientist:
Yea, like getting sued by a crazy old lady...

Dammit! I was 10 seconds away from posting that exact same thing. You're too quick..

Goldfinger · Feb 4, 2005, 02:30 PM

If I were one of these girls (or parents), I'd sue the judge.

Oisín · Feb 4, 2005, 02:37 PM

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
Here's another one.

It's a story about a lady who needs oxygen to breathe. She lit up (a cigarette) next to her oxygen tank and burst into flames and died because oxygen is combustible.

I wonder if she actually died because she ran out of the room and got away from the fire, but left her oxygen tank in the fire and died from asphyxiation now that she didn't have her breath-helper anymore...

Goldfinger · Feb 4, 2005, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by Ois�n:
I wonder if she actually died because she ran out of the room and got away from the fire, but left her oxygen tank in the fire and died from asphyxiation now that she didn't have her breath-helper anymore...

Mafia · Feb 4, 2005, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Lateralus:
Yeah, incidents like this are why I stopped being nice to people about 10 years ago.

same here, the old woman needs a good slapping.

BRussell · Feb 4, 2005, 03:03 PM

I noticed this in the article:

But Young, home with her own 18-year-old daughter and her elderly mother, said she saw shadowy figures who banged and banged at her door. When she called out, "Who's there?" no one answered. The figures ran off.

She thought perhaps they were burglars or some neighbors she had tangled with in the past, she said.

She's tangled with other neighbors in the past? Shocker!

AKcrab · Feb 4, 2005, 03:42 PM

We need to get her address, and all send her cookies.
Like, LOTS of cookies.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Feb 4, 2005, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by AKcrab:
We need to get her address, and all send her cookies.
Like, LOTS of cookies.

I'll deliver them.

With my pants off.

cjrivera · Feb 4, 2005, 03:51 PM

Originally posted by AKcrab:
We need to get her address, and all send her cookies.
Like, LOTS of cookies.

no.

Brownies laced with melted choclate ExLax.

(that stopped the 5th graders from stealing my lunches when I was in 3rd grade)

11011001 · Feb 4, 2005, 04:15 PM

From article:

"Something bad could have happened to them," she said.

Ya, like you *itch.

TheBadgerHunter · Feb 4, 2005, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
I'll deliver them.

With my pants off.

I think you misunderstand the basic concept of the cookies.

Cody Dawg · 05:33 PM

You guys are all funny - regular late night comedy writers, all of you.

turtle777 · Feb 4, 2005, 09:19 PM

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
I think you misunderstand the basic concept of the cookies.

-t

Person Man · Feb 5, 2005, 08:26 AM

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
If I were one of these girls (or parents), I'd sue the judge.

No, they should countersue the neighbor for (ta-da) "pain and suffering!"

The girls declined comment after the ruling. Taylor's mother said the girl "cried and cried."

"She felt she was being punished for doing something nice," Jill Ostergaard said.

See?

"The victory wasn't sweet," Young said. "I'm not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson."

Yeah they learned a lession all right. "Never do anything nice for anyone ever again."

itistoday · Feb 5, 2005, 10:42 AM

Originally posted by cjrivera:
no.

Brownies laced with melted choclate ExLax.

(that stopped the 5th graders from stealing my lunches when I was in 3rd grade)

Brilliant!