<p>I think the woman was already a nervous wreck from her own 18 year old daughter and elderly mother living with her and looking for someone to blame her troubles on outside her family</p>
<p>$900 for an emergency room visit ?
I feel badly for her daughter because she is put in the middle. I am sure she realizes that her moms health condition affects her reasoning ( you don’t have an anxiety attack over someone dropping cookies at your door unless you are already wound too tight), but to describe what the girls did as a “prank” indicates she is trying to give her mom more than the benefit of the doubt. </p>
<p>Additional news stories indicate that the husband of the woman made harrasing phone calls to the girls- they have obtained a restraining order against him.</p>
<p>There is also another story on that site that says the family that sued the girls has sued others or been sued at least 9 other times… Talk about being sue happy… I’m sorry, i dont mean to be rude or anything, but that’s ridiculous… people really need to learn how to grow up…</p>
<p>Until I read the story fendergirl posted, I didn’t know that the woman went to the hospital ** the next day, AFTER seeing the plate of cookies!** She said she felt “ill.” When I first heard the story, I thought she was actually having a heart attack or something, or thought she was, and was rushed to the emergency room that very night.</p>
<p>Now it looks like a scam - like she hoped to get cash for “pain and suffering.” And now she says:</p>
<p>“I don’t know how to change. I don’t know how to compromise my principles,” she said.</p>
<p>Also note in one of the Denver Post stories, the litigant initially sued for pain and suffering, in addition to hospital costs, and the cost of installing motion-sensitive lighting around her house. The initial amount she sued for was around $3,000. The judge reduced it to medical bills plus $1.</p>
<p>I agree with nedad: it appears to be meant as a quick scam, but it did not turn out as the litigant intended. (Note that I am still trying to be charitable to her, but do not now believe she was acting honestly.)</p>
<p>I don’t think she was looking to cash in. She had an anxiety attack, and then thought she was having a heart attack. Probably without or had little medical coverage and therefore sued for that reason. There are a lot of folks out there who are not mean, but in difficult financial situations. I don’t think the old woman did this to cash in. I’ve had an anxiety attack at least once in my life and it is scary, palpitaions can lead a person tho think they are dying.</p>
<p>About the pain and suffering, sure, you have to do that too to cover lawyer expenses. The attorney told her what to do and how it should be handled and she went along. Add to that she was angry kids were pounding on her door late at night and scared her silly! I’m not saying I would do the same thing, I’m just saying I think that was the explaination. If kids were ‘pounding on her door’ she should have called the police.</p>
<p>BHG, I have family in the town. Your speculations are mistaken…first, this family is very well known for starting lawsuits to get money. Second, she just claimed to the sheriff that she was having an anxiety attack. She did not ask to be taken to the emergency room. If she thought she was dying, she would have gone to the emergency room immediately. The idea came up the next day. I agree with the other 99.999999999999% of the country that this woman was wrong.</p>
<p>So what if she had an anxiety attack. I feel badly for people who have them…but you just can’t go around suing people who you think gave them to you by doing benign things that YOU think are scary. </p>
<p>I don’t think she should have gotten a dime! It’s just ridiculous that the court entertained her madness. How small is this town? I can just see this being filed in Philly…LOL.</p>