A West Dundee, IL woman convicted of stabbing two of her ex-husband’s pet lizards was sentenced Thursday to 50 hours of picking up road kill. Now that’s a great sentence and one the judge should be proud of.

Kane County Judge Grant Wegner called the community service component of 38-year-old Sara Tinsley’s sentence “appropriate, given the circumstances” of her crime, which proved fatal for one of the two bearded dragon reptiles, named Fred and Ethel.

Tinsley also must serve 18 months of probation, undergo an anger management evaluation and pay $979 in court costs, fines and restitution for medical bills.

The mother of two, who has remarried since the April 2, 2007, attack, was sentenced after apologizing in open court and vowing to never be violent toward animals again.

“I’m very, very sorry for my actions,” Tinsley told the judge. “I’ve been around animals all my life and never had an incident with them.”

Sara Tinsley pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in May, acknowledging she threw Fred and Ethel against a wall and knifed the reptiles while arguing with her former husband over the phone. The attack killed Ethel; Fred recovered after surgery.

What a wacko!