Brittany: Two teenage girls have been ordered to pay nine hundred dollars “for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.” The girls decided that it would be nice to bake cookies as a surprise for their neighbors. The presents were left in tins, “adorned with red or pink hearts”, and bearing the message: “Have a nice day.” One neighbor filed a lawsuit stating that the “unsolicited cookies” caused her to experience an anxiety attack that sent her to the emergency room the next day.

This pisses me off. These kids try to do something nice for someone else, and what happens? I mean…what kind of age are we living in when it’s no longer safe to commit random acts of kindness? Heaven forbid there be “unsolicited” good will towards fellow man. Cases like this really make me question what laws allow such to happen in our courts (same with the “hot coffee” suit).

First of all, a panic attack is a sudden rush of overwhelming fear that occurs without warning and WITHOUT ANY OBVIOUS REASON. It seems to me that the daft judge would take into consideration the fact that anxiety attacks are usually not triggered by a specific occurrence. This means that it is HIGHLY unlikely that the girl's cookies had anything to do with her attack.

According to the article, the woman feared that she had experienced a heart attack and went to the emergency room the next day. If you thought you had a heart attack, why in the world would you wait until the next day? Heart attacks are serious, woman! Get thee to a hospital ASAP!!! I have experienced a couple of anxiety attacks myself (blame it on college), and while I assumed all manner of things DURING the attack, I had the sense to figure it out afterwards.

Thirdly, from the sounds of it, she better be thankful that it was only cookies and not a flaming bag… ::grumbles::   ¶ 9:36 PM