You got a D? Go get Harvey and the tool box.
A Georgia woman is in jail after police say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades.
The sheriff of rural Meriwether County told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher reported it to the Division of Family and Child Services, who contacted police.
Sheriff Steve Whitlock said 38-year-old Lynn Middlebrooks Geter of Warm Springs faces one charge each of animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery.
I'm disturbed by this. Not because the hamster died, but growing up I always had mice, hamsters, rats and other rodents and it bothered me when they died because of my lack of feeding or watering them. But having to kill one with a hammer that's just wrong.