Dad Takes Umbrage With Daughter's Facebook Insubordination, Shoots Her Laptop

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Put a general No Facebook block rule on the home WiFi, no discussion, done.

Maybe allow Facebook access from a shared terminal in the living room from 6:30pm to 8pm, for everyone to check on their stalkers, imaginary friends and acquaintances from the other side of the planet.

Don't get me wrong - people should absolutely be free to ruin their lives with Facebook, as they are free to go for heroin, crystal meth or crack cocaine. But, as with most other business transactions like these, I really want the client to be of legal age and wasting their own money and time, not that of their parents or other relatives.

 

[Right Hook]

I initially didn't agree with his method, I'm still not that fond of it but after reading his text responses he actually seems like a pretty rational human-being and as long as he isn't lying about how his daughter is doing then everything seems fine. I'm ready to forget about this story.

 

[Scorekeeper]

I fully support his decision. His reasoning is sound. I wouldn't have done it but I can't fault him for doing so. Plus. it was pretty funny.

 

[Raregolddragon]

Here here!

 

[Riki Darnell]

Putting aside who thinks who is right or whatnot for a moment, what kind of idiot shoots an expensive position like that - worth hundreds of dollars if even a piece of shit - instead of doing ANYTHING ELSE? You could sell such a thing whole or in parts and get money! I curse the name of falsey macho men everywhere who do stupid things.

He works at some kind of a clinic, has a beautiful .45 and a nice John Deer I saw in the video. He also hires a cleaning lady/maid. He's not hurting for money, I doubt it would make a dent in his pocket.

Which makes it funnier every time someone calls him a redneck-he's better off than 90% of the people discussing him, I'd bet on it.

What kind of clinic worker (Possibly a doctor?) puts a gun to a computer and shoots? The issue is Facebook, right? The online company that is in no way connected to the production of laptops and therefore nothing to do with the problem? That's what you call a displacement of blame. If you're going to go and shoot something, shoot the PROBLEM.

*Pause*

Actually, don't do that either. Confiscate the laptop or give it to charity or something, and then write a nasty letter (or in this case, Youtube video), to Facebook. Don't fucking shoot stuff for no good reason!

But I think you're missing the point. It's HIS money that bought it so it's HIS property. He can do whatever he wants with it. Also, I think it's more of a therapeutic rage thing. When you are really angry and you break something it makes you feel soooooo much better. If he had given it away or kept it, it wouldn't have had the same impact I think. It's adding insult to injury.

 

[Luftwaffles]

Before reading the official response from the father:

Well, that was a little bit much.

After reading the official response from the father:

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I wonder how many people will read the response.

Just finished reading it and yeah. This. Unconventional methods yes, but the reasoning is sound.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Hah! What a fantastic father. He bought it with his cash, let him do whatever he wants with it.

 

[FalloutJack]

But I think you're missing the point. It's HIS money that bought it so it's HIS property. He can do whatever he wants with it. Also, I think it's more of a therapeutic rage thing. When you are really angry and you break something it makes you feel soooooo much better. If he had given it away or kept it, it wouldn't have had the same impact I think. It's adding insult to injury.

Hey, no offense, but I feel rather stupid after breaking something of mine, no matter how angry I felt. And the computer STILL isn't to blame. Impose discipline on the kid or on Facebook, one of 'em. The equivalent would be if you shot YOUR computer because you got angry with ME for disagreeing. Now, if that happened and even if you felt satisfied for doing it, you'd suddenly be smacking yourself on the head for killing a perfectly good computer, wouldn't ya?

 

[Bat Vader]

Putting aside who thinks who is right or whatnot for a moment, what kind of idiot shoots an expensive position like that - worth hundreds of dollars if even a piece of shit - instead of doing ANYTHING ELSE? You could sell such a thing whole or in parts and get money! I curse the name of falsey macho men everywhere who do stupid things.

He works at some kind of a clinic, has a beautiful .45 and a nice John Deer I saw in the video. He also hires a cleaning lady/maid. He's not hurting for money, I doubt it would make a dent in his pocket.

Which makes it funnier every time someone calls him a redneck-he's better off than 90% of the people discussing him, I'd bet on it.

What kind of clinic worker (Possibly a doctor?) puts a gun to a computer and shoots? The issue is Facebook, right? The online company that is in no way connected to the production of laptops and therefore nothing to do with the problem? That's what you call a displacement of blame. If you're going to go and shoot something, shoot the PROBLEM.

*Pause*

Actually, don't do that either. Confiscate the laptop or give it to charity or something, and then write a nasty letter (or in this case, Youtube video), to Facebook. Don't fucking shoot stuff for no good reason!

At around the thirty-five or forty second mark he said that he works in IT for a living. The issue was his daughter posting a nasty comment about them and insulting them on Facebook. His daughter was the problem, not Facebook. He also stated that in the video that his daughter did this before as well. If she had learned her lesson the first time he would not have shot her laptop.

It is her own fault for acting like a brat.

 

[ChadSexington]

He actually seemed very reasonable. He remained calm the whole time, he thoroughly explained the reasoning behind what he was doing and he responded to everything she said.

The daughter seemed ungrateful, I'm sure there's another side to it but to be honest I'm on his side. She'll be pissy and will probably complain but she'll definitely learn something.

 

[J.j. Trusello]

Putting aside who thinks who is right or whatnot for a moment, what kind of idiot shoots an expensive position like that - worth hundreds of dollars if even a piece of shit - instead of doing ANYTHING ELSE? You could sell such a thing whole or in parts and get money! I curse the name of falsey macho men everywhere who do stupid things.

He works at some kind of a clinic, has a beautiful .45 and a nice John Deer I saw in the video. He also hires a cleaning lady/maid. He's not hurting for money, I doubt it would make a dent in his pocket.

Which makes it funnier every time someone calls him a redneck-he's better off than 90% of the people discussing him, I'd bet on it.

The definition of redneck has nothing to do with money.

 

[J.j. Trusello]

Putting aside who thinks who is right or whatnot for a moment, what kind of idiot shoots an expensive position like that - worth hundreds of dollars if even a piece of shit - instead of doing ANYTHING ELSE? You could sell such a thing whole or in parts and get money! I curse the name of falsey macho men everywhere who do stupid things.

He works at some kind of a clinic, has a beautiful .45 and a nice John Deer I saw in the video. He also hires a cleaning lady/maid. He's not hurting for money, I doubt it would make a dent in his pocket.

Which makes it funnier every time someone calls him a redneck-he's better off than 90% of the people discussing him, I'd bet on it.

What kind of clinic worker (Possibly a doctor?) puts a gun to a computer and shoots? The issue is Facebook, right? The online company that is in no way connected to the production of laptops and therefore nothing to do with the problem? That's what you call a displacement of blame. If you're going to go and shoot something, shoot the PROBLEM.

*Pause*

Actually, don't do that either. Confiscate the laptop or give it to charity or something, and then write a nasty letter (or in this case, Youtube video), to Facebook. Don't fucking shoot stuff for no good reason!

At around the thirty-five or forty second mark he said that he works in IT for a living. The issue was his daughter posting a nasty comment about them and insulting them on Facebook. His daughter was the problem, not Facebook. He also stated that in the video that his daughter did this before as well. If she had learned her lesson the first time he would not have shot her laptop.

It is her own fault for acting like a brat.

Okay so she didn't learn the first time and he pulls a gun. What if this doesn't teach her? Whats next?

 

[Veylon]

I think it's a bit of an overreaction to me. Blowing away a laptop over a typical bit of teen melodrama is absurd. Teens have pretty much always complained about their parents to each other, it's just now that the internet exists and there's a permanent record. I wonder what kind of things this guy said about his parents to his friends in High School.

Certainly I agree that earning things makes people appreciate them more; maybe he ought to have done this to begin with.

And I'm not surprised she came through it fine. Sometimes it takes losing something to realize how important (or unimportant) it is. Though I think the lesson she's liable to learn is to do your bitching in meatspace instead of cyberspace.

 

[Scarecrow]

I think he made the right choice, but shooting it may have being going a little to far. I myself would have given it away, or if that wasn't a strong enough message, thrown it off a cliff. Even so, I'm on his side.

 

[FalloutJack]

At around the thirty-five or forty second mark he said that he works in IT for a living. The issue was his daughter posting a nasty comment about them and insulting them on Facebook. His daughter was the problem, not Facebook. He also stated that in the video that his daughter did this before as well. If she had learned her lesson the first time he would not have shot her laptop.

It is her own fault for acting like a brat.

Oh, so lemme get this straight. An IT guy gets mad at his daughter and decides to shoot a computer. An IT guy? That makes him even dumber. A man who values technology blows it away, wastefally. I believe that's what ya call a damn shame, ironic even.

 

[Zen Toombs]

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Correct answer to everything is always more bullet.