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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]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Subscribe to commentsMister PooJun 12th 2009 9:18AM
They have a name for these sad excuse for human beings... text-tards... if they only had a brain! The sheer callousness and blatant self-absorbtion of the cell phone generation mentality makes me want to vomit or get homicidal on some of these punks... honestly I cannot wait for all these texttards and cell phone ADD freaks to get theirs (wish is to say cancer and whatever else their willful ignorance wont be able to save them from)
White WolfJun 13th 2009 4:36PM
All that aggravation could have been avoided if the father had purchased unlimited messaging.
deejayApr 22nd 2010 9:43AM
It is definitely about finding balance. To many parents wait until a child hits 13 to start parenting. By then it is far to late. The child's formative years start the day they are born. Courtesy, respect, responsibility, and decision making start instantly. Instead of controlling and manipulating kids when they are older, they need to be allowed to make their own choices when they are just starting to sit up and crawl so that they understand consequences of decisions. We have very few rules in our house for our teenage children other than make good choices or we will make them for you. And they do have consequences for not well thought out and/or immature decisions. And all of our children (ages 12, 14, 18) get mostly A's and take advanced classes and the youngest is going to university academy by his choice this summer. Get them excited about being in control of their future and they will actually be excited to have one and plan for it and see it to fruition. No one is perfect and neither will all of their decisions, but they do learn from their mistakes if given the opportunity. Then you can enjoy those teen years instead of hoping you survive them. Phones are not the problem - lack of early parenting is. Honestly, I have a far greater problem with my kids immature friends and their irresponsible parents that refuse to lift a finger to parent them at all. Drives me nuts.