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Dad Takes a Hammer to Teen's Cell Phone Over $5K Bill

Dad Smashes Teen's Cell Phone Over $5,000 Bill
We've seen teens send out 14,000, 15,000, and even over 40,000 text messages in one month, so one girl's firing off 10,000 texts in one month shouldn't really shock us all that much. But the tale of Dena Christoffersen has two ingredients that make it much more interesting than the other tales of texting addiction we've shared before: no text messaging plan, and an angry parent with a hammer.

Dena, a 13-year-old from Cheyenne, Wyoming, incurred the wrath of her father after she rang up a $4,756.25 cell phone bill, which included over 10,000 text messages. The family didn't have a text messaging plan. To make matters worse, most of the messages appeared to be sent during school hours. On one day in particular, Dena sent over 300 texts during the eight-hour school day. Needless to say, this had an effect on Dena's grades, which went from A's and B's to F's.

After seeing the bill, Dena's father Gregg took his aggression out on the teen's handset -- with a hammer.

Now sans cell phone, Dena has pulled her grades back up, and we're quite impressed with Gregg's restraint. If we got a $5,000 cell phone bill, we'd probably smash a lot more than our daughter's phone. [From: Denver Post/9News, Via: Textually]





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