The dad that shot his daughters laptop?

i can't imagine anybody not hearing about this yet, but just in case:



http://www.litefm.com/cc-common/mainhead鈥?/a>



the main jist is... a 15 year old girl posted on FB, bitching about her parents. her dad see's it and makes a video of him shooting her laptop multiple times with his gun. its gotten almost 2 million views in 2 days.



what are your thoughts?The dad that shot his daughters laptop?
BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA!!!
worlds best parentingThe dad that shot his daughters laptop?
The only thing I didn't like about that vid of the fathe is that he wasted a perfectly good laptop, and him in the IT world. I know he could replace it easily, but he could have simply wiped it then donated it to a local school or even found some kid in his area who might not be able to afford a laptop for school...what a waste.
Is kind of stupid for her dad to do that.The dad that shot his daughters laptop?
Anger Issues, Immature Gun Use, and Probably Drinking Issues. Poor kid even though she was being disrespectful.
He made an a$$ of himself and ruined any chance of his daughter ever trusting him, respecting him or talking to him again.



When she has kids someday I bet she won't let him near them. I sure as hell wouldn't. He is an irresponsible, impulsive, reckless and immature boy who thinks because he has a gun and pays bill he has the right to lord over his daughter like a dictator.
Great idea for when my daughter hits her teens.
Way to teach your kid that guns are to be used whenever you feel angry about something.
I'd nominate him for Father of The Year.

Guess what, teens? If you don't want to spend the rest of your life flipping burgers at Burger King and feed off hard-working tax payers (welfare), then you better work hard. Teens these days lemme tell ya.
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LOL! Two teens want to flip burgers for this rest of their life. Be my guest!
I loved it. I think he is right on target and I applause him! :)
Some good as$ parenting right there.
That is ridiculous. The dad is a psycho. Now, I don't know what exactly the girl's post said, but unless she was saying really rude or disrespectful things about her parents, I don't even see why she should have been punished for just saying she didn't like doing chores. But what on Earth could warrant the dad pulling out a gun, and destroying something to expensive?? He could have just taken the laptop away like a normal parent, or if his kid really did something that horrible he could have sold it or given it to someone who needed it. The dad is even more immature than the daughter, he got his panties all in a wad over a stupid facebook post and had to get revenge on his daughter by posting the video to the public and humiliating her. Seriously, sounds like something a bunch of middle school bullies would do.
He is just as immature as his daughter...



Respect is earned...



Neither of them will be able to "earn" each other respect because she will do something to get back at him for shooting the laptop and posting it on Youtube, he will then do something to get back at her for doing that, and it will continue in a cycle that won't end.
he has my respect. hannah definitely won't be pulling something so idiotic again. Oh, and I'm a 14 year old girl and I love my laptop, but hey, she deserved it. To all of you saying stuff about bad parenting, It's called discipline, darlings, and it's necessary %26lt;3
While I agree that he should have punished her for her actions, I found several things wrong with his method of punishment:



1. He complains of having spent $130 and most of his day installing software on the laptop. In that case, why couldn't he have sold it instead? By selling it, he would be reimbursed for the money spent, and he could be helping out someone who actually needs a laptop for school/uni.



2. He says that she should pay for the bullets, but it was HIS decision to use the bullets on the laptop.



3. He says that she is lazy and won't get a job. By posting this video, she has now received unintentional notoriety, and therefore it is very unlikely that she will be hired, and this could affect her chances of going to a good university and having a successful career after she finishes school. Employers now Google-search potential employees before hiring and the publicity this video is getting will no doubt negatively affect her chances of employment.



4. He says that she disrespected him, but children don't owe respect to their parents, it has to be earned and all this will do is widen the wedge between them.
For the stuff that she said, degrading not only her parents but calling a friend of the family who was doing some work for them for some extra cash or whatever as the "cleaning lady" he was in the right. Her rant was completely out of line. For those who havn't seen the video, her rant was really offensive and filled with swears. Definately bad enough to put a bullet through the laptop.
The dad is lacking in parenting skills. Parenting isn't about getting a child to do what you want. It is about raising a child into becoming a healthy, happy, stable adult. What is the purpose of his discipline? What did she do wrong? It appears that she was being a typical teenager and ranting about her parents to her friends. She may have even been PMSing. She felt safe expressing her feelings because she used facebook privacy settings to lock her parents out of seeing her status. What she said was never meant for the whole world to see. He claimed on the video that since he works in IT for a living he was able to see the status that he was locked out of. Mentally healthy people need to blow off steam every now and again to their friends. If a father publicly humiliates his daughter by opening up his facebook wall to the public, posting a video on youtube, and puts his daughter in danger of being bullied by her classmates, being bullied by strangers on the internet, does that make him a good parent? Worse yet, by making his privacy settings public and by having other videos on his youtube account, a person can easily figure out where she lives, where she goes to school, where she goes to church, who her relatives are, and where her parents work. The way people are talking about her, it worries me that the whole world has that information. Parenting is also about keeping your child safe. A firearm is not a parenting tool, and neither is public humiliation.
he did a good job of being a parent.
he's going to get paid
that cant be true he wont do that, besides laptops cost money. a lot of money.