Cookie klatch lands girls in court

This is beyond ridiculous...

Two teenage girls decided one summer's evening to skip a dance where there might be cursing and drinking to stay home and bake cookies for their neighbors.

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Inside one of the nine scattered rural homes south of Durango that got cookies that night, a 49-year-old woman became so terrified by the knocks on her door around 10:30 p.m. that she called the sheriff's department. Deputies determined that no crime had been committed.

Basically this woman apparently went psycho because someone knocked on her door at 10:30 PM... The two girls left cookies, as a nice gesture...

This is an amazingly ridiculous statement by the insane woman herself, replying to the letter that was given to her & her family in apology:

Young wouldn't sign the agreement. She said the families' apologies rang false and weren't delivered in person. The matter went to court.

So basically she is saying that these girls only goal for delivering fresh home baked cookies was to cause terror. I'm no expert in this type of thing, but if I wanted to terrorize someone, I WOULD NOT LEAVE COOKIES ON THEIR PORCH!!!


I hope this woman feels superior now, because if she doesn't the whole farce was a waste to everyone...

I'm going to laugh if a story is posted next week that kids in the neighborhood start knocking on her door in the middle of the night and run off as a prank on a regular basis... Basically this is what she is opening herself up to...


[UPDATE] - 02/10/05
Victims of 'Cookie Monsters' Get Hate Mail, Phone Threats

Welp, it looks like it didn't take long for national attention to catch up with them... As I remotely predicted, they left themselves open for this... Though I didn't quite expect this extreme an outcome...

Wanita's husband, Herb, stated:

We have got horrendous phone calls, tons of hate mail, threats to our life...

But I have to say I'm not supprised... Though the most interesting snipet in this article is:

The parents of one of the teens asked for a restraining order against Herb Young, accusing him of making harassing phone calls. He admitted calling the Ostergaards once after hearing the teens were talking to a newspaper and at one point said "the gloves were off," which apparently was taken as a threat.

I would classify that as a threat myself... Also consider for a second that this is what he admitted to saying... He very well may have said more that he won't or hasn't admitted to...

[UPDATE] - 02/17/05
'Cookie Monster' Case Gets Nastier

There's one interesting quote from Mrs. Young in this:

All this over cookies... Our home is like a funeral parlor. They've robbed us of our laughter. My spirit, my soul, is damaged.

I hate to tell you this but try taking a little responsibility for your own actions for once. There are two sides to every coin, and ignoring the opposite side doesn't make it go away... The only thing "they've" done is try to leave cookies on your porch as a sign of good will.

If you're so paranoid that someone can't even do something as simple as that without causing you a nervous break down, perhaps you should build a 50 foot cement wall around your house... Or perhaps you would be better off committed to a hospital...

This, of coarse doesn't even take into account the fact that your husband made harassing phone calls following this whole thing... So stop trying to sound like your the sole victim and an angel in this whole situation...