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Nice lesson to teach your kid. A 6-year-old girl in Garland, Texas entered an essay contest at Club Libby Lu, penning a tear jerker about her father dying in Iraq, in the hopes of winning four tickets to an ultra-sold-out Hannah Montana tickets. Now, we’ve certainly pulled similar boneheaded stunts when we were kids, but the bad part of this tale was that the girl’s mother was in on it:

The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.

“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”

She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. Caulfield said the mother has admitted to the deception.

Club Libby Lu is apparently mulling over whether or not to take away her tickets. What’s there to think about? They need to rip the tickets right out of her hands, give them to a more deserving kid right in front of her face and send her home crying to her mommy.

UPDATE: Club Libby Lu has decided to take away the tickets from Ceballos’ daughter — YOINK!