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Woman Forces Son to SMASH Hamster with a Hammer after getting Bad Grades

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I imagine the hamster had no time to feel anything, pain receptors or not. The equivalent is to a human-sized boulder somehow being smashed down on a person with force. I mean, whatever pain the little thing felt was over in milliseconds.
One would hope. But it takes a while for those nerves to stop firing. You'd have to do it quickly, get a clean shot, which means being calm and collected, smashing the skull and severing the brain stem completely, not just breaking the spine while leaving the rest intact, which would cause a lot of pain. Animals also don't hold still very long, and with a hammer, you wouldn't want your hand in the way to hold it down.

Why am I taking the time to analyze this? I need a better hobby. >_>

But going beyond just this incident. This lady is very obviously deranged and there must be a history of similar abuse for most of the kid's life. I don't know the child and am just assuming, but I think he's been through a lot more than just this incident.
Most likely. She sounds like an abuser, and the kid now has a harder life ahead of him if he has to go live with another caretaker.
 

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No. It's a ****ing hamster. It didn't feel anything, it's dead. Sure, it was robbed of a couple years of a pointless existence in a cage, but you are seriously underestimating the impact this kind of child abuse has on a human's psyche.
so you feel like your life has more value than a hamster?

I can think of at least two that disagree...
me, and the hamster.
 

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Wow, what an awful parent. I always thought animal cruelty punishments should be harsher. You could murder like 50 domesticated animals and only get a year in jail.
 

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LOL@all the few trolls in the article's thread who are like "what's the big deal, it's a **** rodent" or "I don't see the crime here." Those kids prolly had to kill their pets too. But not cause mommy made them. The voice in their head did. Kill. KILL. KILL Zem. Kill zem all.

My ex told me about a couple of teens in her school that enjoyed burying kittens up to their neck in the ground and then running over them with a lawn mower. :( Some people are just totally ****ed.
 

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It's bad but the kid won't be messed up in a few years. He's 12 years old, his mind would be pretty stable at this point. I could understand at like the age of 6-8, but 12? No way. I also like how they make it sound so terrible, "Woman forces son to SMASH....". The mom basically said that since you got really bad grades, no more hamster for you, so instead of getting rid of it humanely, she got him to kill it with a hammer. Definitely an effective way of punishment, but clearly the wrong way to do it.
 

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It's bad but the kid won't be messed up in a few years. He's 12 years old, his mind would be pretty stable at this point. I could understand at like the age of 6-8, but 12? No way. I also like how they make it sound so terrible, "Woman forces son to SMASH....". The mom basically said that since you got really bad grades, no more hamster for you, so instead of getting rid of it humanely, she got him to kill it with a hammer. Definitely an effective way of punishment, but clearly the wrong way to do it.
You are a bubonic ******.
 

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Can smashing a rodent's head in really be that traumatic?

I mean I used to torture and kill insects and molluscs all the time and I turned out great(ly deranged).
 

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Can smashing a rodent's head in really be that traumatic?

I mean I used to torture and kill insects and molluscs all the time and I turned out great(ly deranged).
I dunno. I think there's a difference between killing random, almost insignicant animals, with hammers and killing that one animal you could probably not live life without...
 

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I dunno. I think there's a difference between killing random, almost insignicant animals, with hammers and killing that one animal you could probably not live life without...
Insects aren't insignificant!

They're more valuable to the ecosystem than pet animals.
Plus, I'm pretty sure he's living without the hamster right now, although he's obviously going to have a bad memory stuck in his head for a while.
 

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The only thing that it'll do to him, is have him hate his mom. If his mom forced him to do this, I am sure she's done pretty ****ty things in the past, and he probably already hated her.
 

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This probably would've been legit in the good old days.
 

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Why? Don't you remember when you were 12? I do, and I remember being pretty stable at that age.
I'm just going to take a WILD guess here and assume that your parents never made you obliterate a small animal's face to death with a blunt object.


 

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My ex told me about a couple of teens in her school that enjoyed burying kittens up to their neck in the ground and then running over them with a lawn mower. :( Some people are just totally ****ed.
what


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I'm just going to take a WILD guess here and assume that your parents never made you obliterate a small animal's face to death with a blunt object.


Yeah but other kids forced each other to do nasty stuff when I was that age.

One of them for example, was kicking a mouse, then throwing it off the school roof. I didn't actually do that one but I did watch it.

 

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I'm just going to take a WILD guess here and assume that your parents never made you obliterate a small animal's face to death with a blunt object.


Definitely not. But I did have to kill a mouse like that. That's how you kill animals like that... You put them under a towel and hit them with a hammer. It's pretty standard, it's just that this was a pet and not a mouse trapped in a mouse trap.
 

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That's weird Alphi, my mousetraps usually crush their skulls or split their heads in two.

No need to finish them.
 

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Well it caught his leg, and we came home to a mouse dying, so I had to take care of it. It was pretty weird, but I couldn't see it dying, and with one swift hammer it was dead.
 

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Oh right, makes sense.

Reminds me of killing a rat with a plank of wood. There was a sewage problem in my area and the *******s starting showing up, didn't help that our house is full of rice.

Got rid of them though.
 

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Thats so sad.. poor kid. T_T At least the ***** will rot in jail like she deserves. =/
Despite how "bad" this seems to us morally, she most likely won't be in jail for that long. I mean if animal cruelty had the same sentence as murder, then I could see it. But the maximum sentence for all three of those charges added up is like 15 years.
 

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FIFTEEN YEARS for animal cruelty?

What the **** is wrong with that country?
 

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You easily get less here for ****.
 

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FIFTEEN YEARS for animal cruelty?

What the **** is wrong with that country?
Animal cruelty is 5 max (still too much imo). Then Child Cruelty is max 10 (I barely see how this applies) and Battery (lolwut) is like 6 months.

There are three charges all together. Still, 15 years seems really harsh.
Yeah, it's kinda weird. And she'll probably get max too since people will feel sorry for the kid. Lame.
 

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Animal cruelty is 5 max (still too much imo). Then Child Cruelty is max 10 (I barely see how this applies) and Battery (lolwut) is like 6 months.



Yeah, it's kinda weird. And she'll probably get max too since people will feel sorry for the kid. Lame.
Well people here can get 5 years for ****.

So you're telling me that if you torture some critter in America, they could get the equivalent sentence to an English rapist?

Rock on.
 

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Well people here can get 5 years for ****.

So you're telling me that if you torture some critter in America, they could get the equivalent sentence to an English rapist?

Rock on.
LOL, we've had murderers serve 17 days in jail. Simply arguing that you were too insane to commit the crime that you planned out for months is enough to get you off clean.

Our judicial system is so ****ed up :urg:
 

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Well people here can get 5 years for ****.

So you're telling me that if you torture some critter in America, they could get the equivalent sentence to an English rapist?

Rock on.
American hamsters life=English woman getting *****. What a silly world.

LOL, we've had murderers serve 17 days in jail. Simply arguing that you were too insane to commit the crime that you planned out for months is enough to get you off clean.

Our judicial system is so ****ed up :urg:
The South. Too good.
 
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