In short, a dad from the Carolinas discovered a highly ungrateful Facebook post by his daughter, and responded with this video in which he explains to her just how good she has it. He then shoots her laptop at the 7:05 mark and says she won't get a new one unless she buys it with her own money.
The comments on the vid are flying thick and fast, defending both father and daughter. So I ask you all: Which one is in the right here? What do you think of this style of parenting? Would a lesser response by the father be appropriate?
EDIT: Dad released a lengthy statement on the matter. Click to read.<p>Attention Media Outlets:<br />While we appreciate the interest you're all putting forth to get in touch with us regarding the video, we're not going to go on your talk show, not going to call in to your radio show, and not going to be in your TV mini-series.</p>
<p>Some of you think I made an acceptable parenting decision and others think I didn't. However, I can't think of any way myself or my daughter can ...respond to a media outlet that won't be twisted out of context. The Dallas news TV news already showed that in their brief 5 minute interview with the psychologist.</p>
<p>Additionally, there's absolutely NO way I'm going to send my child the message that it's OK to gain from something like this. It would send her a message that it's OK to profit at the expense of someone else's embarrassment or misfortune and that's now how I was raised, nor how she has been raised.</p>
<p>So I say thank you from all of us. If we have anything to say, we'll say it here on Facebook, and we'll say it publicly, but we won't say it to a microphone or a camera. There are too many other REAL issues out there that could use this attention you're giving us. My daughter isn't hurt, emotionally scarred, or otherwise damaged, but that kind of publicity has never seemed to be to have a positive effect on any child or family.</p>
<p>If you're a news outlet that wants to ask us a question, feel free to so via email. I'm sure by now my email address is easy enough to find. It might take me awhile to get to a response because I'd have to sort through the "Die you bastard" emails to find it, but we will respond if its something that we feel merits it. Otherwise, sorry... no interviews, no talk shows, no call-ins.</p>
<p>If we respond to anything, it will be on here, and it will be in a way that our words can't be misconstrued or edited for appeal to specific audience or shock value.</p>
<p>Now, I'm going to try to get to work for the day. <br />Best of luck to all of you out there... and PLEASE give my phone a break.<br />==========================================<br />HOW HANNAH GOT CAUGHT<br />HOW SHE GOT CAUGHT: The Dog Did It.. no, really.</p>
<p>I finally came out and told her this today, partly because it was too funny NOT to share.</p>
<p>When my daughter made her post, she used Facebook's privacy settings to block "Family" and "Church" friend's lists. All her other friends could see it. We, of course could not.</p>
<p>One of our dogs is always getting in photos and therefore has her own Facebook pa...ge. It's just a cute dumb thing we did for fun. Well, the dog's profile is rarely used except when funny pictures of her are posted. Since that's not too often, and she has very few friends on Facebook, her wall is kind of bare, with relatively few posts showing up on it.</p>
<p>The other night we gave the dog a bath and there was a funny photo we uploaded to Facebook and tagged her in. I logged in as the dog the next morning to comment on the photo. However when I logged into the dog's profile, my daughter had forgotten to add her to the "family" list.... so our family dog's profile showed her post right there on the front page.</p>
<p>It wasn't any parent-hacking, computer spying, or monitoring of any kind.. the dog actually ratted her out completely by accident. She hasn't petted that dog all day today...<br />==========================================<br />HANNAH'S REACTION<br />For those that wondered, commented, criticized, and just in general wanted to know:<br />My daughter came through it fine.</p>
<p>Yes, she's in trouble, and yes she's grounded, but that doesn't mean every moment of her life has to be miserable. She's going to come to terms with the changes that will be present for a while; no TV privileges, no Internet, etc.</p>
<p>In the meantime, once the initial anger passed,... she sat with me reviewing some of the comments that have come in via Facebook and YouTube. One person even suggested collecting the shell casings and auctioning them on eBay. I said I'd do it if it would help contribute to her college fund! When I told her about it, she thought a minute, got a funny calculating expression on her face and said, "in that case you should shoot my phone too. We can use more bullets and I'll go half-sies with ya on it! It's not like I'm going to need it any time soon. And I can use the money we get to buy a new one."</p>
<p>While the whole point of this story isn't funny, what is funny to me is how weak some people out there think kids are. Our kids are as strong as we help them to be. My daughter took a horrible day in her life, had her crying fit, then got over it, accepted her punishment, and hasn't let it (or people's comments) destroy her strength. I don't get any credit for that. She's strong and able to overcome almost anything life throws at her.</p>
<p>Since this unsuspectingly threw her into the limelight much more strongly than either of us intended, I asked her if she wanted to make her own response video, and told her I'd let her do it if she wanted to. She doesn't like being in front of the camera, so she declined, but I've told her if she wants to write a response or post a video response, I'd be OK with it. It's only fair considering the viral nature of the whole thing. So far she's not really interested. Quite frankly it seems she's gotten bored of it much faster than the general public has. If that changes I'll post it here.<br />==========================================<br />FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:<br />Media Response to Anita Li, from the Toronto Star</p>
<p>Since you took the time to email us with your requests like we asked, I'll take the time to give you an honest follow-up response. You'll have to forgive me for doing so publicly though; again I want to be sure my words are portrayed the way I actually say them, not cut together to make entirely different points.</p>
<p>Your questions were:<br />Q: Why did y...ou decide to reprimand your daughter over a public medium like YouTube?</p>
<p>A: Well, I actually just had to load the video file itself on YouTube because it's a better upload process than Facebook, but the intended audience was her Facebook friends and the parents of those friends who saw her post and would naturally assume we let our children get away with something like that. So, to answer "Why did you reprimand her over a public medium like Facebook" my answer is this: Because that's how I was raised. If I did something embarrassing to my parents in public (such as a grocery store) I got my tail tore up right there in front of God and everyone, right there in the store. I put the reprisal in exactly the same medium she did, in the exact same manner. Her post went out to about 452 people. Mine went out to about 550 people... originally. I had no idea it would become what it did.</p>
<p>Q: How effective do you think your punishment was (i.e. shooting her laptop and reading her letter online)?</p>
<p>A: I think it was very effective on one front. She apparently didn't remember being talked to about previous incidents, nor did she seem to remember the effects of having it taken away, nor did the eventual long-term grounding seem to get through to her. I think she thought "Well, I'll just wait it out and I'll get it back eventually." Her behavior corrected for a short time, and then it went back to what it was before and worse. This time, she won't ever forget and it'll be a long time before she has an opportunity to post on Facebook again. I feel pretty certain that every day from then to now, whenever one of her friends mentions Facebook, she'll remember it and wish she hadn't done what she did.</p>
<p>The second lesson I want her to learn is the value of a dollar. We don't give her everything she asks for, but you can all imagine what it's like being the only grandchild and the first child. Presents and money come from all sides when you're young. Most of the things she has that are "cool" were bought or gifted that way. She's always asked for very few things, but they're always high-dollar things (iPod, laptop, smartphone, etc). Eventually she gets given enough money to get them. That's not learning the value of a dollar. Its knowing how to save money, which I greatly applaud in her, but it's not enough. She wants a digital SLR camera. She wants a 22 rifle like mine. She wants a car. She wants a smart phone with a data package and unlimited texting. (I have to hear about that one every week!)</p>
<p>She thinks all these things are supposed to be given to her because she's got parents. It's not going to happen, at least not in our house. She can get a job and work for money just like everyone else. Then she can spend it on anything she wants (within reason). If she wants to work for two months to save enough to purchase a $1000 SLR camera with an $800 lens, then I can guarantee she'll NEVER leave it outside at night. She'll be careful when she puts it away and carries it around. She'll value it much more because she worked so hard to get it. Instead, with the current way things have been given to her, she's on about her fourth phone and just expects another one when she breaks the one she has. She's not sorry about breaking it, or losing it, she's sorry only because she can't text her friends. I firmly believe she'll be a LOT more careful when she has to buy her own $299.00 Motorola Razr smartphone.</p>
<p>Until then, she can do chores, and lots and lots of them, so the people who ARE feeding her, clothing her, paying for all her school trips, paying for her musical instruments, can have some time to relax after they finish working to support her and the rest of the family. She can either work to make money on her own, or she will do chores to contribute around the house. She's known all along that all she has to do is get a job and a lot of these chores will go away. But if you're too lazy to work even to get things you want for yourself, I'm certainly not going to let you sit idly on your rear-end with your face glued to both the TV and Facebook for 5 to 6 hours per night. Those days are over.</p>
<p>Q: How did your daughter respond to the video and to what happened to her laptop?</p>
<p>A: She responded to the video with "I can't believe you shot my computer!" That was the first thing she said when she found out about it. Then we sat and we talked for quite a long while on the back patio about the things she did, the things I did in response, etc.</p>
<p>Later after she'd had time to process it and I'd had time to process her thoughts on the matters we discussed, we were back to a semi-truce... you know that uncomfortable moment when you're in the kitchen with your child after an argument and you're both waiting to see which one's going to cave in and resume normal conversation first? Yeah, that moment. I told her about the video response and about it going viral and about the consequences it could have on our family for the next couple of days and asked if she wanted to see some of the comments people had made. After the first few hundred comments, she was astounded with the responses.</p>
<p>People were telling her she was going to commit suicide, commit a gun-related crime, become a drug addict, drop out of school, get pregnant on purpose, and become a stripper because she's too emotionally damaged now to be a productive member of society. Apparently stripper was the job-choice of most of the commenters. Her response was "Dude... it's only a computer. I mean, yeah I'm mad but pfft." She actually asked me to post a comment on one of the threads (and I did) asking what other job fields the victims of laptop-homicide were eligible for because she wasn't too keen on the stripping thing.</p>
<p>We agreed we learned two collective lessons from this so far:</p>
<p>First: As her father, I'll definitely do what I say I will, both positive and negative and she can depend on that. She no longer has any doubt about that.</p>
<p>Second: We have always told her what you put online can affect you forever. Years later a single Facebook/MySpace/Twitter comment can affect her eligibility for a good job and can even get her fired from a job she already has. She's seen first-hand through this video the worst possible scenario that can happen. One post, made by her Dad, will probably follow him the rest of his life; just like those mean things she said on Facebook will stick with the people her words hurt for a long time to come. Once you put it out there, you can't take it back, so think carefully before you use the internet to broadcast your thoughts and feelings.</p>
From the sound of it, he paid for all of it, so sure, whatever. Also, rule of hilarity: If somebody wants to be a massive dick, so long as it doesn't effect me and is hilarious, go wild.
On whose side I'm "on" I'd have to go with the dad, mainly because he seems to be teaching his stuck up self-entitled daughter a lesson. If my parents bought and upgraded me a laptop as I needed, I would do all the chores they asked me to, hell my family didn't have a dishwasher for a good part of my life. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me
The daughter is certainly ungrateful, but that's hardly unusual for a 15-year old. It just sounds like the ordinary whining any teen might do some of in their time. While what she wrote was untrue and disrespectful, it certainly didn't warrant a 2 year grounding. Basically: The daughter's in the wrong, but the punishment is way too harsh.
I don't believe in that style of parenting in the first place either. What he did may change his daughter's outward act, but it will not change her attitude.
Quite harsh parenting compared to my standards, but I'm not anyone to judge his rules, and being disrespectful/taking your parents for granted is a horrible thing to do, so it must have felt bloody good to put holes in that laptop.
She's also stupid if this sort of thing happened before and she did the exact same thing, knowing her dad could see it, and how he'd react.
And people say Americans having guns is a BAD thing? I say good for this Dad. It's his property, and his daughter abused his generosity to lash out at him? Shooting it is not only justifiable, but fun! :D
Who's in the right? Well, the daughter is wrong, and the dad did provide the laptop, so I'd say the dad is in the right.
What do I think? Meh. There are more extreme and less extreme ways of dealing with this sort of thing. Not sure it'll have the desired effect. If the daughter is that far from reality then she'll probably just spin it as just more oppression from her evil parents. I would have been more inclined to make her earn what she has rather than destroy it, although he did kinda do that since she'll need to buy her own laptop. She does have some issues, certainly. Independent of the need to work and all that, I would love it if all I needed to do to maintain my apartment was the stuff on her chore list.
So yeah, I approve but I'm not sure it'll be any more effective than anything else. I think kids like that need to leave the house and either become losers or grow up, because the only thing I know of that can break through their extremely overdeveloped sense of entitlement and denial is life experience.
Better him to put an end to it then for anonymous or the internet to do it. They make short work of whiny kids on the internet. Better that he destroy her laptop, then for anonymous to ruin her life. Unless she WANTS to be like Jessi Slaughter.
If you go into a public place, spout shit, then someone contests your claims and makes you look like a fool, then its YOUR fault. Not the other person's fault.
This seems completely staged. I mean...it's almost...TOO convenient. I have the same feelings watching this as I did when I saw the "I love cats" chick, which turned out to be a joke for interwebz fame.
Off topic, this is possibly the most intelligent thread title for the most average topic. If anything, that made me lul more than the video.
EDIT: Also, CONSEQUENCES...WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!
Well it's his right to take it away and if she's being a brat, sure. But I think using a gun like that seems kind of irresponsible. I mean really, he's treating a weapon kind of like a toy there. And destroying it at all seems immature. Keep it from her, sell it, give it away, but why waste it? Out of some silly rage at a stupid comment?
I take it she probably have seen her father video via her friend Facebook? I wonder how he explain to her about the shoted laptop?
In my opinion I am mostly siding with the father. The only part I disagree with him is that he saying she (well us) got it easy compare to his lifestyle in the past. Ok granted he is somewhat right but I don't think he can fully understand her (or our) lifestyle because of the culture difference from his time to her time. Sure we got technology to have us out but we still have our day to day problems.
While I have never had that type of chores but if I did I would of accepted it despite how much I would of hated it since over time it would of shapen me better for the future.
Skin: See guys, if you beat your children from an early age, you will never have to destroy their laptops. A few good slaps is the way to go.
Yeah, no it really isn't. Studies say that simply isn't true. And all that I ever see to oppose it are personal anecdotes which seem riddled with huge bias towards it.
Seems like he's either a troll, a really awesome father, or both.
If he's bought it for her & is lending it to her then I don't really see any legal problems, and no moral problems if she's been bitching on fb...still, bit of an overreaction.
Grow the fuck up, yes children can be hard to deal with sometimes and yes this may seem funny, but the man has taken something that to a teenager is extremely personal and part of their daily life.
It probably contained photo's of her and her family, friends, pets and access to online accounts and was personalized to a very high level.
Shooting it is moronic and immature and when you think about it unsettling, the man is reprimanding his daughter with a firearm, does no one else see the problem here?
He had just video taped himself shooting the laptop, a representation of her online persona and then more than showed it to her, guess who he was talking about while shooting the laptop, this is the stuff that destroys children subconsciously.
My parents weren't the best, one of them drunk a lot the other was overworked, the firm;y subscribed to the if you mess about learn to deal with it line of thought; they however knew when they had taken it too far.
People saying that destroying the laptop is a waste are missing the big picture. He posted himself doing it on Youtube, and the video has over 2 million hits. A quick google search says that if you sign an advertising deal with youtube, you'll see about $1 per thousand hits. That means this video has generated over $2000 for him, which is far more than if he had just sold the laptop.
Giving this a bump because the dad has released a quite lengthy statement on the matter, which I have added to the original post.
And I've just realized that there is another thread on the topic with more replies, but I posted it six minutes before they did and my title is way better.
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.
FalloutJack: 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.
Laptops don't have much resale value, really. Also it looked like an older HP. He spent more on software for it than he would've got from selling it, I'm sure.
This made my day. It's nice to know some parents are still cracking down on their children's disrespect, and if I also wore a cowboy hat, it would be off to the angry dad. The economist in me cringes that such a valuable piece of hardware had to be destroyed, rather than sold, but nothing's quite as classy or loud and clear as the message he sent with those 8 hollow-tipped exploding rounds.
FalloutJack: 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.
FalloutJack: 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.
Laptops don't have much resale value, really. Also it looked like an older HP. He spent more on software for it than he would've got from selling it, I'm sure.
Regardless of whether or not that's entirely true or if you could finnagle something or whatnot, the point remains relevent: A complete and useless waste. Ruining a good laptop and using up a perfectly good bullet to do it? Good for effect, bad in terms of economics. the makers of every part of that computer did not put that sucker together just so some guy can put a slug through it.
It's a redneck version of my dad. Holy crap. 'Cept I never publicly trashed talked my dad. I just made a tiny sex joke on Facebook and he cancelled my cell phone. This was when I was 18, mind you. I resent him for the 6 hours I spent at Verizon the next day trying to transfer my number to a new plan with a dumb salesman. I know better than to publicly put down my parents where they can see it, and I certainly knew it by time I was 15. Kids need to shut up more on Facebook.
Kahunaburger: That's one way to implement a dislike button.
Needs more dakka.
Anyway, there are so many self entitled kids it's sickening. I would've done something similar, though being Canadian, can't get guns that easily nor simply fire them in my back yard. I bet you, even after all of this, including her talk with her father, she still thinks she's right. My brother is the same way, the little fuck thinks everything for him is soooo hard and that everyone is out to get him and that he's right while everyone else is wrong. She got what she deserves.
Also he sounds like a perfectly reasonable man. I respect the fact that he refuses to talk to the media about this whole event because he feels there are more important things going on in the world and would rather not waste time talking to a father who disciplined his teenage brat.
FalloutJack: 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.
Laptops don't have much resale value, really. Also it looked like an older HP. He spent more on software for it than he would've got from selling it, I'm sure.
Regardless of whether or not that's entirely true or if you could finnagle something or whatnot, the point remains relevent: A complete and useless waste. Ruining a good laptop and using up a perfectly good bullet to do it? Good for effect, bad in terms of economics. the makers of every part of that computer did not put that sucker together just so some guy can put a slug through it.
FalloutJack: 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!
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In short, a dad from the Carolinas discovered a highly ungrateful Facebook post by his daughter, and responded with this video in which he explains to her just how good she has it. He then shoots her laptop at the 7:05 mark and says she won't get a new one unless she buys it with her own money.
The comments on the vid are flying thick and fast, defending both father and daughter. So I ask you all: Which one is in the right here? What do you think of this style of parenting? Would a lesser response by the father be appropriate?
EDIT: Dad released a lengthy statement on the matter. Click to read.