A US woman has inflicted the ultimate punishment on her errant 13-year-old son and sold his PS2 on eBay.

The teen ne'er-do-well apparently ran amok in the Arkansas household - his misdemeanours include drinking Dad's beer and a bottle of 1995 Dom Perignon champagne - and as a result dear old Ma deployed the big, big stick. As she herself puts it:

The device in question was secured for $122.50 when the auction ended on 31 May. The cash will certainly go some way towards the parents recouping the $177 mum reckons the boy's drunken shenanigans have cost. Obstreperous teenagers, take note. ®

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Since you can get a new PS2 for not much more than the winning bidder paid for the second-hand example, we can only assume that he or she is another long-suffering parent who's reached into the pocket through solidarity. Either that or he's the original owner using a credit card he stole from dad's wallet while drunk.

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