Dad hammers cell phones after $4,700 SMS bill

In one month, a Cheyenne teenager sent 10,000 text messages and received about the same — all while her family's plan did not include texting, reports The Denver Post.

Dena, 13, had apparently been sending most of these messages at school. That's more than 300 texts within an eight-hour period every.

The girl's parents, Gregg and Jaylene Christoffersen, thought texting had been disabled, so one can imagine their surprise when they got the monthly phone bill and it asked for $4,756.25.

Needless to say, it drew attention away from what she should have been doing: paying attention in class. "She went from A's and B's one semester to F's in two months," Dena's dad said.

Hours after the enormous bill arrived, Gregg Christoffersen took a hammer to his daughter's phone.

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