And They Wonder Why We Have No Confidence in the Law
I'm sorry, but as a lawyer, my confidence in "the system" gets pretty much destroyed when I see stories like this. It makes me wonder what total dweeb attorney took a case like this, and what the idiot judge could POSSIBLY be thinking.
This CNN Story pretty much made me want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head. Two teenage girls thought they'd do something really nice and baked homemade cookies, wrapped them in little packages with little hearts, and brought them to their neighbors. Some worthless imbecile got "so scared" that she had to go to the hospital. I guess that when the census comes to her house, or the Jehovah's Witnesses, or even the damn mailman or UPS, she winds up in the hospital too? I wonder if they also get sued, or if she saves it up to go after teenage girls trying to do something nice?
What's worse, the families offered to pay this stupid beast's 900.00 medical bills (I wonder if that included psychiatric testing that this 49 year old woman obviously needs). The beast declined because "their apologies were not sincere." Oh man. So let's use the legal system because people's apologies for doing something nice are not sincere enough for a psycho who can't handle chocolate chip and sugar cookies.
And some judge actually awarded the psycho the $900.00 and let this travesty of justice play out. I wonder how much the poor girls' families had to pay their lawyer to defend them against this stupidity. I also wonder if OUR insurance premiums for our homeowners insurance will go up or we'll now have a clause inserted that says they don't pay if we try to do nice things for our neighbors and they turn out to be mentally ill and sue us for it.