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Herb and Wanita Young just don't when to shut the hell up.

This is the couple that sued a pair of teenagers because the wife had an anxiety attack after the girls left her cookies on her doorstep. The girls unquestionably used pretty poor judgment to ring people's doorbells at 10PM at night and the girls' parents seemed content to acknowledge that. They offered to pick up the $900 in hospital bills that Wanita Young incurred having her "anxiety" treated the next day.

So an apology and a check wasn't good enough, apparently: The Youngs were out for blood. Well, they won their case, and the victory sat like ashes in their mouth, I'm sure. All the judge gave them was an award for the $900 in medical bills that they would have gotten if they'd just exercised an ounce of common sense and come to an agreement with the parents of the two girls to begin with.

Now that the case has been publicized nationally, the Youngs have been subject to threats. That's pretty lousy. But let's face it: They brought it on themselves. It's clear that they're still clueless, too.

"... they could have prevented it from happening if they had just shut their mouths when they came out of (small claims) court. Now they are caught in something they can't control," said Herb Young.

"Caught in something they can't control" is an interesting turn of phrase, given that Young is the one who had a restraining order placed against him after he allegedly made harassing phone calls to one of the parents. And considering that the Youngs are the ones who are getting hate-mail, nasty phone calls and death threats, I'd say they're the ones who are caught in something they can't control.

For the girls' part, they've gotten financial support from a local radio station -- enough to cover their legal expenses. And they've even had a cookie named in their honor.