Can you spell "litigious"?

"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. Big mistake.

"The July 31 deliveries consisted of half a dozen chocolate-chip and sugar cookies accompanied by big hearts cut out of red or pink construction paper with the message: 'Have a great night.' The notes were signed, 'Love, The T and L Club,' code for Taylor Ostergaard, then 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, 18.

"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, but Wanita Renea Young ended up in the hospital emergency room the next day after suffering a severe anxiety attack she thought might be a heart attack.

"They were sued, successfully, for an unauthorized cookie drop on one porch. A Durango judge Thursday awarded Young almost $900 to recoup her medical bills.

"She received nothing for pain and suffering... Taylor's mother, Jill Ostergaard, said her daughter 'cried and cried' after Judge Doug Walker handed down his decision in La Plata County Small Claims Court. 'She felt she was being punished for doing something nice,' Jill Ostergaard said... Court records contain half a dozen letters from neighbors who said that they enjoyed the unexpected treats."