Dad uses Facebook to teach daughter a lesson

[Kreigmstr]

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A 15-year-old puts up a Facebook post bashing her parents for making her work too hard, dad reacts by posting a video response to her grievances on her Facebook page.

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[Orphiuchus]

I saw this earlier today, and I love it. It doesn't sound like the kid is all that "troubled", any more than any other 15 year old, but everyone needs swift kick in the ass around that age, and this was a pretty good one.

[Kreigmstr]

Yeah. Me too. I was actually annoyed by some of the comments on it though. Stuff like "oh you just scarred her at one of the most sensitive moments of her life" and people accusing him of abuse. Believe me that's no where near abuse.

[Agnostic Pope]

Those comments sound about right considering a vast majority of youtube users are 12 or hate their parents TEENAGE ANGST! Remember that long pic post where it showed all the kids crying they didn't get their Ipad or car for Christmas? These are the same kids posting on youtube saying fag, gay and FIRST. I hate teens and I am 22. Anyway this guy is the man. Love that hat fuck that little bitch kid.

[Orphiuchus]

The comments seem to be a mix of teenagers with no perspective and left-wingers afraid of guns or discipline.

[Suicidal ShiZuru]

He kind of seems like a strict ass but the daughter obviously deserved it for being stupid if anything. Disagreeing with his method, that I actually find hilarious, of trying to teach her a lesson is fine. Just don't get high and mighty about it like the people in those comments...

[Capt_Thad]

Waste of a laptop. Hard to complain about your kid not understanding the value of money when you're willing to shoot up $500+ hardware (on top of the $130 he kept mentioning) to make a point. Could've wiped it and donated it at the very least. I grew up on hand-me-down junker hardware myself, stuff like that goes a long way.

Chuckled at her list of chores though. Crazy how much the perspective you're limited too can alter your view of the world. Plato's cave and whatnot.

[Agnostic Pope]

Waste of a laptop? Yeah he bought it. He can damn well choose to shoot it. LOL at "I go to sleep at 10pm!" I haven't slept an hour earlier than 12 in 10 years.

[Capt_Thad]

I'm not sure how buying something means it can't be wasted. I didn't say he couldn't do what he wanted with it, just said it was a waste.

[Agnostic Pope]

What you call wasted is argumentative and it is lost in translation; this was never about the computer it was about making a point.

[sai tyrus]

Waste of a laptop. Hard to complain about your kid not understanding the value of money when you're willing to shoot up $500+ hardware (on top of the $130 he kept mentioning) to make a point. Could've wiped it and donated it at the very least. I grew up on hand-me-down junker hardware myself, stuff like that goes a long way.

Chuckled at her list of chores though. Crazy how much the perspective you're limited too can alter your view of the world. Plato's cave and whatnot.

A Plato reader! Nice!

[Capt_Thad]

What you call wasted is argumentative and it is lost in translation; this was never about the computer it was about making a point.

Lost in translation? It's not like I'm talking Japanese. He shot a perfectly good laptop, even recently updated apparently. If he gave it to a friend's kid, or re-purposed it for work, or donated it to a local school or to soldiers overseas or something, she would own it just as much as she does now. It's not like shooting a laptop actually destroys her facebook account.

He's going on about how she doesn't understand the meaning of work and the value of money, and demonstrates by destroying an expensive piece of hardware. From my perspective, as a guy who grew up using TV/stereos/computers/etc. that other people were throwing away because we couldn't afford new stuff, that seems counter-productive to the point. People destroying perfectly good hardware always rubs me the wrong way. It's like trashing food in front of hungry people.

I didn't really intend to make that much of a point off of it though, was just an aside. Didn't know you were so pro-bullets in computers to make statements. I wasn't actually trying to start anything.

[sai tyrus]

That video was hilarious BTW. Kid deserved it.

[inscribed]

Someone is overly sensitive. The point of the video is to knock some sense into his daughter, and putting several rounds through her beloved laptop creates a much more dramatic (and final) effect than just telling her "oh I gave it away".

[Capt_Thad]

man I make an offhand statement, and suddenly I'm getting goaded into arguing about it. I'll just leave it be. Doesn't going for the more dramatic effect though teach her that she should handle things more dramatically? Or is the point that he's better at being dramatic than she is, so she should give it up?

I figured that "You apparently didn't appreciate it, so we made sure it went to someone who would" would be dramatic enough to make the point. Apparently I don't have a strong enough grasp on the concept.

[sai tyrus]

Someone is overly sensitive. The point of the video is to knock some sense into his daughter, and putting several rounds through her beloved laptop creates a much more dramatic (and final) effect than just telling her "oh I gave it away".

Don't you hate on my sweet teddy. :D Seriously though, it's all about perspective. I had the same initial reaction as Thad, but I would probably do something similar to my son's xbox if he was that disrespectful. I see both sides. When I grew up, I appreciated my Nintendo and every console I ever had because I worked for them and bought them myself with my own money. Big difference there. Anyhoo, that's my spiel. Rainbows and sprinkles dammit, rainbows and sprinkles!

[Agnostic Pope]

I'm just surprised you cared more about hardware than anything else that happened in that video. You mentioned you weren't speaking Japanese but you might as well have.

[RevXwise]

Am I the only one who finds the most unbelievable part of this video is that he states that, at age 15, he was already living on his own, going to college while going to high school, working two jobs, and was a volunteer fireman. I don't know the guy at all, but that's really hard for me to believe.

[inscribed]

Don't you hate on my sweet teddy. :D

so he.... is your.... "sweet teddy"...? oh wow, I don't really know how to respond to that.

[sai tyrus]

lol. Good 'ole Thad!

[Agnostic Pope]

so he.... is your.... "sweet teddy"...? oh wow, I don't really know how to respond to that.
Jealous? :p

[Capt_Thad]

uhh... I'm not really sure what's happening, so I'm just going to chill over there.

I'm just surprised you cared more about hardware than anything else that happened in that video.

heh I'd say that sums it up nicely. Dude didn't take the same tack I would've, but I don't see anything abusive about his approach. Thought the 'using his daughter's own method against her' thing was a clever bit of irony. Will also go to show her that the internet isn't as anonymous as kids these days seem to believe, when she deals with that vid having gone viral at school.

Dude's gonna take a lot of flak for it though for the same reason. Tiny bit of a "cut your nose to spite your face" element to the methodology.

I did compulsively shudder at the "when I was your age" mention, must be a programmed reaction. Seems like you only ever hear that line when you've done something wrong.

[Kreigmstr]

Am I the only one who finds the most unbelievable part of this video is that he states that, at age 15, he was already living on his own, going to college while going to high school, working two jobs, and was a volunteer fireman. I don't know the guy at all, but that's really hard for me to believe.


he forgot uphill both ways imo. Though who knows, maybe he counts his firefighter training classes as college.

[lockwoodx]

Damn that dad beat me to it.

[Murmillo]

Shooting the Laptop was overboard.. should have given it away to somebody that did need it. Waste of Hardware and bullets.

But other then that.. A- for the dad.

[montemuscle1970]

I'm with this guy, but my only concern is when that makes its rounds, I'm afraid the way this country is these days, someone will make the argument that his family isn't "safe" because this guy is "ill-tempered" or something ridiculous.

[Agnostic Pope]

Yeah! He should just be more American and beat his kids like the rest of us! That poor laptop/sarcasm.

What he did was not extreme or over the top. He didn't beat the kid or looks like the type of guy who would do that. (take THAT stereotypes of guys with hats! :P)

[Capt_Thad]

http://mashable.com/2012/02/11/dad-addresses-facebook-laptop-shooting/

As expected, looks like they're getting plenty more attention than intended. Seems like he's being solid enough about it though, turning down as much as he can and even scored a little support for the Muscular Distrophy Association.

[inscribed]

I'm going to put nine hollow rounds through your computer, Thad.

[Agnostic Pope]

http://mashable.com/2012/02/11/dad-addresses-facebook-laptop-shooting/

As expected, looks like they're getting plenty more attention than intended. Seems like he's being solid enough about it though, turning down as much as he can and even scored a little support for the Muscular Distrophy Association.

"He could have done a PC restore on it back to when they bought it and donated it. He could have set up a password in the BIOS and let her earn it back as I doubt a 15 year old is going to figure out how to reset the BIOS settings. Doing a youtube video of you shooting it seems a bit much."

Thad is that you? :P