you can't make it up!

only in america.
damn...i feel for those 2 girls, that sucks.

Looks like no cookies for her next year!

MrJoker said:

Like SammiJ said, only in America...

lilgish said:

I think there's more to this story than meets the eye. The girls sound like they may be deranged Bible-bashers on a recruitment mission if you ask me.

lilgish said:

lol j/k



/

i mean,did she eat the cookies anyways?.
.
[Edited 2/6/05 2:39am]

lilgish said:

That all seems a bit odd to me!

JDINTERACTIVE said:

were you one of the girls who left the cookies?

.
[Edited 2/6/05 2:56am]

Christopher said:

No, but I designed the cookies.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

i confess, i was the lady.

Christopher said:

How come you didn't go to the dance? I heard people were cursing and swearing.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

the dance would have been to much for me.i heard they a cookie assortment there.

Christopher said:

Did you think you would have a heart attack?

JDINTERACTIVE said:

well after i ate them all. yes!

What kind of cookies?
Did they get the cookies back?
What were they wearing?
Are they legal yet?
Do you have their phone numbers?

Christopher said:

SammiJ said:

As BinaryJustin suggested, the media might not be reporting all of the facts. That's often the case with these "outrageous lawsuit" stories.

Anyway, here's an Indiana case involving a very similar situation (although it was a deliveryman, and his "knocking" was pounding on the door so hard that he caused some damage to it):

http://www.in.gov/judicia...3.fsj.html

In short, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiff, because Indiana law requires the plaintiff to sustain a physical impact in order to recover for "negligent infliction of emotional distress," which was the legal claim asserted.

Not all states have the "impact rule," though. The elements of an NIED claim vary from state to state. Historically, courts have been reluctant to recognize NIED claims.

My lawyerly take on this: regardless of the facts, paying the judgment was probably the best thing for the girls to do. They'd almost certainly incur much more than $900 in attorney fees if they tried to appeal. And since the girls had previously offered to pay the woman's medical bills (see: http://www.cnn.com/2005/L...index.html), they're pretty much in the same position as they were before the lawsuit (aside from the $39 in court costs assessed against them).

In the CNN article, the plaintiff was quoted as saying, "The victory wasn't sweet. I'm not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson." I doubt she's sincere about that... the girls would have "learned a lesson" if she'd accepted the pre-suit offer to pay the medical bills. $871.70 is a lot of money when you're 17 or 18 years old.

matt said:

I sure hope they learned a lesson.....they should have been out cursing and drinking.

That woman oughtta be slapped

Dewrede said:

Hell Yeah, her ass need to be given a slapped. That's why sometimes it don't always pay to be nice to your neighbors.
[Edited 2/6/05 22:24pm]

bananacologne said:

Let's google her phone number up and really give her a heart attack!

althom said:

SammiJ said:

yep

althom said:

Ok, You need to behave Althom or else I'll have to give you a .

Those aren't raisins she'll be getting now.