Woman forces son to kill hamster over bad grades

When Lynn Middlebrooks Geter found that her 12-year-old son's report card wasn't to her liking, she didn't offer to help him with homework or ask teachers for extra instruction. No, she decided something more drastic was in order...

The 38-year-old mom from Warm Springs, Georgia decided the best way for her boy to learn was to kill his pet hamster. With a hammer.

The kid, naturally, was quit upset. What would happen with his next report card? Would he have to beat his sister to death to improve his commitment to math? So he told his teacher about it the next day.

The teacher called social workers, who in turn called the Meriwether County sheriff's department. For her visionary parenting strategies, Geter is now in jail for animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I do believe we have a winner for the most strawberry floated up piece of work of 2010, and three weeks in, too...

Comments appreciated.

The cheek of it!

(Hamsters have big cheeks)

(it was a pun)

With an owner like that, the hamster was on burrowed time.

Rodent try this at home.

She probably thought it was a hamster-killing-thru.

I would probably have forgiven her if she'd had the wit to set it up like a real-life Whack-a-Mole.

Hang on. This isn't a normal thing?

This was Syrian stupid.

(Silly and stupid)

Clearly a ham-fisted attempted at parenting.

I'm not a fan of the way the woman has been portrayed here. It seems they've made a ham of her reputation, and are going to ster gooseberry fool up.

aaronayl1 wrote:This was Syrian stupid.

(Silly and stupid)

If she'd poured boiling water on an ant farm, would she still have been jailed? Interesting.

Poor Hammerster.

Red Devil wrote:
aaronayl1 wrote:This was Syrian stupid.

(Silly and stupid)

Talk about your Chinese dwarf!

Lime wrote:If she'd poured boiling water on an ant farm, would she still have been jailed? Interesting.

Poor Hammerster.

Hamsters have a face, ergo they are more important than faceless insects :lol:

But yes you do raise a valid argument about how society recognises animal cruelty

What a horrid woman

Fargo wrote:What a horrid woman

Too soft, too hard - parents can't bloody win! :lol:

strawberry floating mollycoddled kids.

I had to rape my nan.

Steve wrote:
Fargo wrote:What a horrid woman

Too soft, too hard - parents can't bloody win!

In all fairness, do you agree with that level of 'parenting'??

Woman forces son to kill hamster over bad grades

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