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'Meanest mom' becomes hero

Posted : Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:00:30 GMT
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FORT DODGE, Iowa, Jan. 11 An Iowa woman, the self-described "meanest mom on the planet," became a hero by selling her son's car when she found a liquor bottle under the seat.

Jane Hambleton, a disc jockey in Fort Dodge, also found that her son, a college student, quickly recovered from the loss of his vehicle when the offers to appear on "Oprah" and "Ellen" began coming in, the Des Moines Register reports.

Hambleton placed an ad in the Register: "OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet."

The family was trying to decide which TV show to choose. Hambleton likes Oprah Winfrey, who demanded an exclusive deal, but her son is a big Ellen DeGeneres fan -- and she figures she might let him choose to make up for losing his car.

Hambleton's son told her the bottle she found under the front seat belonged to a friend. But she says that she laid down non-negotiable rules when she gave him the car.

Copyright 2008 by UPI

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seh's not mean
By: brittany , Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:51:33 GMT

She is so right for selling her son's car because first of all he should not have a beer bottle under his driver seat or passenger seat anyway i mean what if he needed to stop on the brakes in a hurry but couldn't because the bottle had rollde under the brake. and if he would have gotten in a car accident then what he would be in that hospital bed looking crazy expecting sympthay from his mother but the thing is that he should have never had his or his friend's bottle under the seat I don't care who's it is if I had a son I would have sold his car to. SHE HAS DONE NOTHING BUT DISLIPEND HER SON THE RIGHT WAY THE SAME WAY I WOULD HAVE DISLIPLEND MY SON IF I HAD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and if you have a problem with what i saied you can leave me a message


meanest mom on planet
By: sharita christopher , Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:36:48 GMT

you go mom, now that's a real parent. We are parents not friends of our children, we can become friends when they become responsible, you totaly saved his life, he'll come back and thank you when he does the same thing to his own son.


meanmom
By: trudy doer , Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:07:43 GMT

We need good examples now mom and you're it.Hope you don't cave and buy him another car with your show fees..Let him pony up for the next car himself and it will be truly a 'Life Lesson Learned' not just for your son but for thousnads who are watching the outcome of this. I think someone is actually raising a kid with moral fibre..Good on You All!!



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