Tough love: South Carolina mom punishes son with ‘Smoked pot, got caught!’ sign
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Brandon Mathison was forced to wear a sign that read ‘Smoked pot, got caught! Don't I look cool? Not!’ and ‘Learn from me, don't do drugs’ after he was busted for smoking pot.
April Mathison took drastic step when the time outs stopped working. ‘I don’t think he believed me at first.’
A South Carolina mom is making her son learn a very public lesson about smoking pot.
April Mathison of Beaufort forced her son to walk up and down a main intersection in the town this weekend, wearing a sign that read "Smoked pot, got caught! Don't I look cool? Not!" and "Learn from me, don't do drugs," after the 13-year-old was busted with marijuana, local television station WTOC-TV reported.
"He was kind of embarrassed before we even got out here," Mathison said of her son, Brandon Mathison, to WTOC-TV.
"He was like 'You're serious? You're going to have me stand on the road with a sign?' I was like 'Yes sir, if this is what it takes.' I don't think he believed me at first. I really don't."
April Mathison of Beaufort forced her son to walk up and down a main intersection in the town this weekend, wearing a sign that read "Smoked pot, got caught! Don't I look cool? Not!" and "Learn from me, don't do drugs," after the 13-year-old was busted with marijuana, local television station WTOC-TV reported.
"He was kind of embarrassed before we even got out here," Mathison said of her son, Brandon Mathison, to WTOC-TV.
"He was like 'You're serious? You're going to have me stand on the road with a sign?' I was like 'Yes sir, if this is what it takes.' I don't think he believed me at first. I really don't."
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