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Friday, February 04, 2005
Girl Scouts, Beware!
Or….letting no good deed go unpunished.
An interesting report from Durango.
Seems that a couple of sweet kids, who decided to skip an opportunity to ‘parte!’ in order to do a good turn for their rural neighbors around Durango wound up going to court and paying $900 for their efforts to promote community. So, instead of going to some place where they might get drunk and or ‘accosted’, they baked a bunch of cookies and went from farm to ranch to home dropping off a dozen or so and knocking on the doors.
One each Wanita Renea Young, age 49, claims she suffered an anxiety attack from the delivery. She reports that she thought they were burglers, or worse.
She had such an anxiety attack that she went to the hospital…the next day. So, in order to recoup her medical expenses, along with punitive damages for ‘pain and suffering’, she did what any red-blooded American woman would do…she sued! [Note: Please excuse the sarcasm.]
Judge Doug Walker, who heard the case, decided in Young’s favor with regards to medical expenses. However, the ruling denied the punitive ‘pain and suffering’ request.
Personally, when I’m having a bit of anxiety, I use a homeopathic materia medica; Ignatia. Two pills under the tongue. Works every time.
For burglers and other intruders, I’ve something a tad ‘stronger’; Plumbum Metallicum in non-homeopathic doses.
In the future, I recommend to Mz Young that she might do better to consider those alternatives.
For the civic minded young folk, in Durango and elsewhere, be careful as to whose door you knock on. And it doesn’t have to be at night. Especially now that a legal precedent has been established.
And for the two young ladies….let that be a lesson for you. God only knows WHAT. But, as one general officer addressing the assembled classes at Benning School for Boys said….
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