Look, the girls only rang the bell at the houses where the lights were on. At the other homes they just left the cookies silently on the porch.
I think what they did was sweet and what that namby-pamby n'er good did deserves a good shunning - from everyone in the community.
As I said, God help her if she worked for me or I owned a store in that town. If she was my employee I'd fire her on the spot - for being a pain in the butt.Â
That's still legal everywhere in the US.
The people of Durango should make this the most expensive $900 she ever made.
Neither article says anything about lights being on. The only mention pertaining to visibility is in the follow-up article:
"Young said she heard someone banging on the door of her rural home late in the evening. She went to the door and saw "shadowy figures" but they refused to answer when she called out to them."
Even if the lights were on, it doesn't matter. The lights in our home are on late at night also, my roommate is often up very late. That doesn't mean it's open house. If "shadowy figures" who didn't identify themselves showed up on my doorstep at 10:30pm, (or any other time for that matter) I would be a little upset also. No matter what the intent, it's rude at best.
I don't want to be in a position of defending this lady, but she is partly in the right. It was the way she and her husband handled it that was wrong and vindictive. One has a right to be secure in their own home. There are some people who don't like anybody they did not invite knocking on their door, (our house is one of them) and they're well within their rights.
Other thing to keep in mind is we don't know all the facts. We all know newspapers aren't above leaving out certain things so that a story sounds more "sensational" or fits a template.
There has been a LOT of follow-up on this in the national media. Boortz has taken this ball and run with it, including doing quite a bit of his own investigation.
He's not alone in this either.
As for being "secure in your home", yes, you do that have right. At no time did these girls violate this couple's home. She was not home alone - her husband was there with her. They left a bag of cookies at the door, rang the bell as the light was on, and departed. Yes, they did not answer when barked at - their intent was to anonymously leave cookies for the neighbors. And? If hubby (or her) wants to come to the door with a 12-gauge at the ready, so be it.
This was not the only house where cookies were left - there were several other homes, including one who was interviewed on the air yesterday. They saw nothing wrong with it and neither do I.The girls would have been gone (how long does it take to put a bag of cookies on the porch?) and he would have found (and likely did find)..... a gift of warm, home-baked cookies. With a note - obviously - otherwise how would they have been identified?
Next,
even if she was freaked out at the moment (possible but unlikely) you're telling me that after discovering the cookies
the next day she is still having an anxiety attack? To the point that she has to go to the hospital to the tune of $900?
After she found cookies on the porch?I don't believe a word of it.
What I believe is that this couple is a vindictive pair of people-hating hermits who decided to mess with these kids and cooked up (pun intended) the anxiety attack. Then, having been stung by the size of the bill for her stupidity, she decided to "get those kids" for "prodding her into it", and sued. Suing them is so far over the top its not funny. The girls apologized - by phone, which the couple claimed 'rang hollow'. Well gee, how "hollow" has her husband's reality been, given that he's been driven to harassment to the point that there is now a
restraining order out against him by the kid's Dad? Do
you think the kids should have apologized in person, given that hubby has been incessantly harassing their family? I don't.
Again I say that if they hate people, that's fine. We'll see how long they can survive without any food, gasoline, clothing or anything else they'd like to buy from me were I shopkeeper in that town, and were either of them employed by me they'd be walking the unemployment line the next morning.
I consider what they did to these girls an assault and, while legal for them to sue, its also legal for me to decide I want nothing to do with either of them.
