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. The story unfolded when teens Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, decided to bake chocolate chip and sugar cookies and place them outside their neighbors' doors with large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, "Have a great night" and were signed with their first initials: "Love, The T and L Club."
The trouble began when they approached the home of Wanita Renea Young, 49. Young said she heard someone banging on the door of her rural home late in the evening. She went to the door and saw "shadowy figures" but they refused to answer when she called out to them. The teens said they did not answer when the woman called out because they wanted the treats to be a surprise. She could have called the cops to check it out...yeah, I know, I'm making sense.
Young said she was so frightened, she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach. The teens offered to pay Young's medical bills but she insisted on going to small claims court. Bummer that you didn't hit the jackpot, eh, Wanita?
Judge Doug Walker, after hearing the teens' explanation, awarded medical costs but declined to order punitive damages. "The victory wasn't sweet," Young said. "I'm not gloating about it. I just hope the girls learned a lesson." Yup, no cookies on your doorstep. Burning bag next time, or toilet paper in the trees.
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. Countersuit time on the Youngs?
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." "And worst of all, they'll throw a party when I leave and won't invite me!!
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Wanita Young said, "This has turned into quite a fiasco. Itâs something that never should have happened and itâs just devastating. My phone hasnât stopped ringing. My life has been threatened and Iâll probably have to move out of town."
Yup!
Or as Rogers & Hammerstein said it -
"SO LONG, FAREWELL"
There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too.
And up in the nursery an ubsurd little bird
Is popping out to say cook-coo cook-coo, cook-coo Regretfully they tell us cook-coo
But firmly they compell us cook-coo
To say goodbye cook-coo...
To you...
So long farewell, auf weidersehen good-bye
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long farewell, auf weidersehen adieu
Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you
So long farewell, au revior auf weidersehen
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
Yes?...No!
So long farewell, auf weidersehen goodnight
I leave and heave a sigh and say good bye -
goodbye!
I'm glad... to go.... I cannot tell a lie
I fleet, I float, I fleetly flee I fly...
The sun... has gone... to bed and so must I...
So long...farewell...auf weidersehen goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
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And remember that Captain the the Austrian Navy!
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Wanita Young said, "This has turned into quite a fiasco. Itâs something that never should have happened and itâs just devastating. My phone hasnât stopped ringing. My life has been threatened and Iâll probably have to move out of town."
Hahahahaha, maybe next time this dumbass will keep a level head instead of acting like a paranoid idiot.
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can you believe the idiot judge awarded her medical costs?? She was probably afraid it was that creepy husband of hers coming home stumbling drunk. Oh...and BTW...just where was he during this paranoid freak show?
OKLAHOMA CITY — Jurors and others in Judge Donald Thompson's courtroom kept hearing a strange whooshing noise, like a bicycle pump or maybe a blood pressure cuff. During one trial, Thompson seemed so distracted that some jurors thought he was playing a hand-held video game or tying fly-fishing lures behind the bench. The explanation, investigators say, is even stranger than some imagined: The judge had a habit of masturbating with a penis pump under his robe during trials. Ready, everybody, all together now, one . . . two . . . three . . . Eeeeeeewwwwww, gross!
Thompson, a 58-year-old soon to be divorced married father of three grown children, "Daaad! That's disgusting."
has denied the allegations, and said the pump was just a gag gift received from a hunting buddy on his 50th birthday. I don't have any "buddies" that would give me something like that . . . thank heaven!
He retired in August after being threatened with removal from the bench, but still faces indecent-exposure charges brought against him last month. "You, the members of the jury, are to examine the evidence--"
"Eeeew! Ick! Do we hafta?"
Jim Wall, police chief in the small town of Sapulpa, said he had heard rumors of the judge's behind-the-bench activities for about a month, "The way he smiled and said 'all rise' when he entered the courtroom . . . there was just somethin' creepy 'bout it, y'know?"
but added: "You've got the most powerful man in Creek County, and I think a lot people were intimidated by him." But eventually, the pressure became too much.
Police built a case against the judge after one of Wall's officers testified during a 2003 murder trial. From the witness stand, the officer saw a piece of plastic tubing disappear under Thompson's robe. During a lunch break, officers took photographs of the pump under the desk. Investigators later collected carpet samples, Thompson's robes and the chair from behind the bench, and found semen, according to court records. "Guess this explains all the complaints we've been getting from the janitorial staff."
Thompson's court reporter, Lisa Foster, told authorities that she saw him use the pump at least 10 times during trials. She said the first time in court was in 2000, but she did not tell authorities. "I didn't want to be found dead in a ditch somewhere," she told The Associated Press. Foster told authorities she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of Kurt Vomberg, . . . The whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors at the trial asked the judge about the sound, Thompson moaned said he hadn't heard it, but would listen for it. Foster and a bailiff were fired by Thompson after giving statements against him. "They used to call him 'the hanging judge.' Now, they call him . . . "
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This is a good chance to calibrate the Creepy Meter.
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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. The story unfolded when teens Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, decided to bake chocolate chip and sugar cookies and place them outside their neighbors' doors with large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, "Have a great night" and were signed with their first initials: "Love, The T and L Club." 
