We need way more parents like this one...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
DES MOINES, Iowa — Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet."
After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone — by placing an ad in the local newspaper.
The ad reads: "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."
Hambleton has heard from people besides interested buyers since recently placing the ad in The Des Moines Register.
The 48-year-old from Fort Dodge says she has fielded more than 70 telephone calls from emergency room technicians, nurses, school counselors and even a Georgia man who wanted to congratulate her.
"The ad cost a fortune, but you know what? I'm telling people what happened here," Hambleton says. "I'm not just gonna put the car for resale when there's nothing wrong with it, except the driver made a dumb decision.
"It's overwhelming the number of calls I've gotten from people saying 'Thank you, it's nice to see a responsible parent.' So far there are no calls from anyone saying, 'You're really strict. You're real overboard, lady."'
The only critic is her son, who Hambleton says is "very, very unhappy" with the ad and claims the alcohol was left by a passenger.
Hambleton believes her son but has decided mercy isn't the best policy in this case. She says she set two rules when she bought the car at Thanksgiving: No booze, and always keep it locked.
The car has been sold, but Hambleton says she will continue the ad for another week — just for the feedback.
Sucks to be an idiot teenager.
If I were that kid I'd recommend he take legal action against his mother.
Still working on that whole concept of coherent sentences Bob?
Keep at it skippy, you'll get the hang of it yet.
Did the mom pay for the car or did the kid? He is 19 so if he payed for it or it was led in his name this could get even better.
R.I.F.
Ya'll are really making this too easy...
Sorry, my brain is a little fried. I spent all night working on the Bob Loblaw Law Blog.
You can't expect me to read the entire article.
Awesome.
Should've followed Rule #2.
You know acouple of weeks ago my kid got picked up by the sheriff, joy riding at 3am with his buddies (no drugs or alcohol); he was grounded with HARD labor for all of Christmas break and lost all electronics for 6 weeks. The other kids in the car with him were out running around 2 days later! Apparently their parents felt sorry for them to be grounded over Christmas break! Sheesh!
That's funny...my daughter was grounded over Christmas Break too. Her crime didn't quite come to that level so she only got 5 days but it still got the point across. She decided to try smoking a cigarette with her friend, in the bathroom, when she knew I would be home in the next twenty minutes. The second I walked in the house she was busted and so ended her her smoking habit of 6 cigarettes over 2 weeks. She sucks as a criminal and always leaves evidence of her crimes and is a horrible liar (Thank God). I knew she had been smoking already because she kept asking for gum and was wearing some perfume really heavy which did nothing to mask the scent, just made it more nauseating to be close to her.
If wasn't for bad ideas I don't think teenagers would have any at all.
Shoulda bought her a pack of Camel unfiltered and had her sit with you on the back porch with the understanding that she had two choices:
1. Take the grounding right then and there and risk more if she's caught again.
Or
2. No grounding at all but she has to smoke the entire pack right then and there.
Hey, if we can't torture our own kids, then why have them?
This lady was on USA Today this morning WITH the kid. Just further bloating her ego.
She said on the show that she wrote the ad that way to help sell the car. She also said she works in broadcasting on a radio show, and she didn't want to say anything about it on the air to "publicly embarrass" her son...
Because I'm sure online exposure and national television isn't doing the trick.
I'm not defending what the kid did. But I'm sure all of you did something wrong in your time, myself included. At least you didn't have it dragged onto BBC and USA Today by your mom.
What an attention . Will she get her own reality show next?
That ad is funny. Good for her.
I don't know if I'm more annoyed by the fact that this woman is such an attention , or that inconsequential like this is taken so seriously these days that she was able to milk it for a national TV appearance.
No . People are applauding her for being a parent?You are SUPPOSED to do that .
It's especially annoying because it never said he was drinking and driving. He could have just been hiding it from her. Illegal? Yes. Worthy of national, public humiliation? Not even close. Let's hope the money from the sale of the car goes to her son's therapy, he might need it.
I applaud her for taking the car away. Obviously the son is old enough to decide for himself whether or not to go on television. I guess he likes the attention, too.
As for saying - so what, that is what parents are supposed to do. Yes, but you would be surprised how few actually do.
omg teh bootleg has leaked!
I am not so naive as to think that there are not lots of ty parents out there. I realize there are. However, that doesn't mean that we applaud the ones who actually do it. Is that what it has come to? If that's the case, in 20 years are we going to be applauding people who wipe their ass properly? You are supposed to clean the !
Also, she admitted she was just doing what she was supposed to do, admitted her son never said any of the phrases in the ad, she doesn't want to publically humiliate him and then said she wasn't doing this for publicityWhat an annoying, lying .
What an attention . Will she get her own reality show next?
Probably....the sad thing is people would watch.
damn, shes hot
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