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[2012-02-09] Father shoots daughter's laptop on Youtube

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Here is a link to the actual video: Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen. - YouTube

From the Toronto Star (mostly because I needed to show that this was newsworthy).

Gun-totting dad scores hits and misses with YouTube reprimand
Anita Li
Staff Reporter

A lesson in tough love has gone viral, turning a small-town dad into a polarizing parental figure overnight.

Millions of people have now seen Tommy Jordan, the gun-toting father from North Carolina, chastise his teenage daughter — and then shoot her laptop — in a controversial new YouTube video called Facebook Parenting: For the Troubled Teen.

The eight-minute diatribe has attracted 15.2 million hits since Jordan posted it Wednesday.

Response to the video is divided. Some viewers praise Jordan as a “hero,” while others condemn him as “insane.”

“You, sir, are teaching your daughter a valuable life lesson,” writes one YouTube commenter.

“You are actually a horrible parent,” counters another.

But one thing is certain: Jordan’s very public shaming of his 15-year-old daughter Hannah has hit a nerve, triggering discussion about whether such overt punishment — especially via the Internet — is healthy or effective parenting.
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Hang the bastard, I say.

That was computer murder most foul. What did that poor laptop ever do to him?
 
Yeah, I'm sorry...no. :/ He should have taken the computer away temporarily, not permanently destroyed it. I wouldn't have been surprised if this only alienated his daughter even further.
 
His daughter is fine. She isn't scarred for life or anything.
 
The first time she posted something disrespectful/rude on Facebook, she got grounded. She didn't learn, did it again, and now she doesn't have a computer. All I can say is: Go Dad!
 
Luminosity said:
The first time she posted something disrespectful/rude on Facebook, she got grounded. She didn't learn, did it again, and now she doesn't have a computer. All I can say is: Go Dad!
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Except that the reaction here was way over the top. These days, who doesn't post that stuff in the internet? Yeah, anyone does.

The "dad" here is stupid, shoving his decades old own treatment down to her daughter's throat. Sure, whining isn't fun but this is not the way to deal with it.
 
So that makes it acceptable? Because everyone does it?

He destroyed a laptop. He didn't give her a beating. He didn't cut off her food supply. The guy gives his daughter her laptop back and the first thing she does is slag off her parents. She is an ungrateful turd, and for being an ungrateful turd she doesn't get to use her laptop. Oh god, the horror. What an awful man. Won't somebody please think of the children.

I'm sick and tired of all these whiny emo retard teenagers whining about how their life is so hard because they have to mow the bloody lawn.
 
Let's consider, how many parents think its acceptable to destroy some one's property as punishment? How many parents think it's appropriate to violently assert themselves as dominant over their kids (it's still violent, even though its against an object)? And this is all in response to her posting on Facebook.

If I was in a relationship (an adult one, I think a parent-child relationship would be a weird analogy) did something like that to my property, I would leave that relationship asap because the perpetrator would obviously be an abuser.
 
Meh. Guy should have at the very least sold it or something. :( Pointless destruction of valuable property! (...this might also be my current desire for a laptop, as my old one broke pretty much beyond repair that I can afford to get, speaking.)
 
Okay, one of the big problems here is that everyone is referring to the laptop as the girl's property. It wasn't, it was the dad's property, he just let her use it. The father shot his own laptop, he destroyed his own property. Once the daughter buys her own laptop, then there will be nothing that he can do about it, like he says in the video.

That said, do I think this was a good idea? Maybe, maybe not. I'm still not quite sure. Yes, the daughter was being an insufferable bitch, and I would be very angry if I were her father, especially with the story that he claims to have. I know teens are rebellious and all (god knows I was), but posting in public on the internet is just stupid. That's what notebooks are for, or at the very least venting to a close friend.

On the other hand, I don't think this is going to make her daughter respect him. Not right away, anyway. I think a parent needs to earn respect by setting a good example, not commanding it.

Regardless, she's 16, so she can work at a supermarket or fast food or something and afford a crappy laptop in 3 months, and a half decent one in maybe 6. It's not the end of the world. Until then there are school computers or libraries that she can use.
 
It's a hoax, apparently.
[video=youtube;9chNh_baJe0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9chNh_baJe0[/video]
 
This other guy is probably wanting some spotlight, nothing more.
 
Hoax or not, I support such parenting. When you disrespect your parents, you lose privileges--plain and simple. That's just how it works, until you are a legal adult. And, guess what? If you're a legal adult but still living under your parents roof, then maybe you need to continue respecting them adult or not because that is their home. You want your way? Move out. And someday when you have people living under your roof, and they disobey the rules you have set, you'll see where your parents are coming from.

If this video is a hoax, then let some parents learn something from it. If this video is not a hoax, then I applaud this father for enforcing his rules.
 
Hmmmm...I do think the father went a weee little bit to far there,Reason: Laptops can be very expensive(starts around $300 and can go up to $2000 or more)and buying one for your daughter just so you can blast it full of bullets...That dosen't seem quite right about that...
 
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buying one for your daughter just so you can blast it full of bullets
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He bought her a laptop so she could use it for schoolwork, accessing the internet, talking with friends, etc. He confiscated it for a while after she posted something similar 3 months earlier. Then he gave it back to her, warning her that if she did something like that again that she wouldn't like the consequences. She stupidly did it again, and he decided to take it away permanently by putting some holes in it.

Hopefully, having to get a job so she can buy her own laptop will make her mature a little.
 
Uh... did he really have to pump the computer full of bullets? Couldn't he have, I dunno, sold it?

Well, I guess it makes for an intimidating example to all little turds out there who have no idea how easy their life is. Makes this guy a spokesperson of sorts, I guess.

I dunno, destroying it with a pistol seemed kind of unnecessary. Still, epic dad is epic.
 
Hallowheart said:
Hoax or not, I support such parenting. When you disrespect your parents, you lose privileges--plain and simple. That's just how it works, until you are a legal adult. And, guess what? If you're a legal adult but still living under your parents roof, then maybe you need to continue respecting them adult or not because that is their home. You want your way? Move out. And someday when you have people living under your roof, and they disobey the rules you have set, you'll see where your parents are coming from.
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This doesn't work if your parents are abusive. This video (obviously) found its way onto tumblr, and I've seen numerous posts saying how this situation reminds them of the abusive situations they've been in. Rules are used to perpetrate abuse.

Anyone who thinks this is an appropriate way to enforce rules is not qualified to be a parent. I am not at all being facetious when I say this.

And it's not like I have no experience with my parents enforcing internet rules. When I screwed up, my mom changed the AOL privacy settings. She didn't destroy the computer with a hammer. That's responsible parenting.

Anyways, hopefully that hoax thing is true.
 
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