She took this prank pretty badly.
A mother of two in upstate New York is suing two joke gift companies after gummy penis and phallus-shaped confetti was delivered and scattered near her children at her home.
Sarah Barnett has filed a lawsuit against the parent company of Dk At Your Door and D-ks By Mail, seeking $200,000 in damages, claiming she suffered “severe emotional distress” at the hands of a “vile” mystery sender who she says sexually harassed her.
“If it was just a prank, why would the prankster try to hide his identity,” her lawyer, Kyle Barnett, told The Post. “That’s what transforms this case from a harmless prank into something malicious.”
According to the lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Westchester County, the plaintiff was at his Ulster County home in mid-December when he received a discreet package containing a bag of penis gummy candies and hundreds of tiny penis-shaped confetti pieces.
According to legal papers filed on June 6, the confetti fell to the floor when it was opened, scattering on the mother’s clothes and furniture (as designed). The Journal News first reported the incident.
The mother’s terrified children, ages 7 and 10, were nearby at the time, according to court documents.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs feared their young children would witness a shocking scene and be “confused, frightened and emotionally distressed.”
D–ks By Mail brands itself as a company where someone can anonymously tell someone they want to “eat a bag of d–ks” in order to “make their opinion known.”
The gag gift company fulfills some orders through Dk At Your Door and ships them directly, according to the lawsuit.
Neither company responded to The Washington Post’s requests for comment.
Named as defendants, according to the lawsuit, are Rain Parade LLC and Cloud Peak LLC, the parent companies of Dk At Your Door and D-ks by Mail, respectively.
The lawsuit described the companies’ actions as “extreme and outrageous.”
“This goes beyond all bounds of social decency and would be considered atrocious and totally unacceptable in a civilized society,” the lawsuit states.
The anonymous sender is also named in the complaint, and Barnett said his client is hopeful that the sender’s exact identity will be identified as the legal process progresses.
The lawyer called the man a “coward.”
“Someone is sending messages and trying to intimidate people and hiding behind that,” Barnett said.
Barnett, who has the same last name as his client, declined to comment when asked if there was a family relationship.
