Motherly Love In Mother Russia

The housing shortage in Russia has eased a little since the fall of the Soviet Union, but not completely gone away. Which caused a wee bit of tension between a mother and her 17 year-old son. It seems the two shared a one room apartment. With their respective significant others. Then the son's girlfriend got pregnant. Which is when mom decided something needed to be tone.

So she hired a hit man to whack her kid.

The 42-year-old crane operator paid the man a 2,100 rouble ($80) deposit to kill her son, Izvestia said. But the would-be hitman told the police who set up a sting operation and arrested her when she handed over the 900 rouble 'completion' payment.

The woman and her son shared the tiny apartment in the Moscow region with their respective partners and there were frequent rows, which became worse when the son's girlfriend became pregnant.

"The woman decided that by snuffing out her son she could solve her housing problems," the paper said.

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard want to point this heartwarming tale out as a reminder to our children that gluing the elderly to the roof is a really bad idea. As is failing to leave home. We're just saying is all.