Brother Adam Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kl1ujzRidmU[/media] [media]http://youtu.be/kl1ujzRidmU[/media] [url="http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii"]http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Genius. May have missed the hard drive and motherboard though. I noticed all the shots were in one place. Screen is definitely shot though. No pun intended. Edited February 10, 2012 by eagle_eye222001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Wasteful. Must be quite the baller if he can afford to buy his kids a laptop and then shoot it. Must be even more of a baller if he hadn't bought it for his kid and shot it anyway. EDIT: I only give my disapproval because if you want to "tough love" it you can do it without the gun. My dad knew how to disassemble a computer non-destructively. He also had/has the power to just unplug the cable modem at will. Edited February 10, 2012 by arfink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandelynmarie Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 (edited) Her dad works for IT & she expected him [i][b]not[/b][/i] to see her FB post???? What was she thinking... Edited February 11, 2012 by brandelynmarie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggyie Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 How about you videotape yourself taking the laptop to the local woman's shelter to donate it. Close video with zinger, "I'm glad the expensive computer I purchased is now the hands of someone who knows what's like to TRULY have a hard life, and who will be GRATEFUL for it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnanc Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 wow. I feel bad for the daughter. She may indeed have a lot to learn in life about responsibility and respect, but I worry about her relationship with her father. He never in this 8 minute video said that he loved his daughter or that he really wants whats best for her. He shouldn't be so offended in my opinion. teens are very emotional sometimes, and so she made an outburst on facebook. Maybe these thoughts would have been better shared with only herself, or a close friend, so that her father would not hear them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureCarmeliteClaire Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 My dad told me about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote name='slywakka250' timestamp='1328971261' post='2385379'] wow. I feel bad for the daughter. She may indeed have a lot to learn in life about responsibility and respect, but I worry about her relationship with her father. He never in this 8 minute video said that he loved his daughter or that he really wants whats best for her. He shouldn't be so offended in my opinion. teens are very emotional sometimes, and so she made an outburst on facebook. Maybe these thoughts would have been better shared with only herself, or a close friend, so that her father would not hear them. [/quote] What the father did was mild compared to what would have happened to people of my generation had we talked to our parents with even half the disrespect this daughter showed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 what norseman is trying to say is that he's old. (i'm kidding! i'm kidding!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1328976650' post='2385413'] What the father did was mild compared to what would have happened to people of my generation had we talked to our parents with even half the disrespect this daughter showed. [/quote] yes.. to quote my mom, if i did anything like this, I would have been a 'grease spot on the floor' by the time she was done with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 (edited) [quote name='brandelynmarie' timestamp='1328935748' post='2385294'] Her dad works for IT & she expected him [i][b]not[/b][/i] to see her FB post???? What was she thinking... [/quote] I guess I missed this detail... he probably could have easily spared this laptop. Wasteful... More on topic, I can totally understand and even relish a good dose of old-school atavism and hard-core discipline, but I don't for a minute believe that this guy needed to do this to his daughter. I could see this approach working nicely if, for example, you were in a military academy, but not in the home. Now, I may just be a young whipper-snapper, but the parenting practices of the past few generations have produced alot of big problems in our society. Is it really any wonder to us that several generations have made a wholesale break with the good things of the past when it's personified by hard-a$$es like this guy? Discipline? Yeah, we need that. Tough love? Sure. Shooting my daughter's laptop? If you can afford it, sure. But the father who would do this kind of thing to his daughter in public is despicable in my opinion. Sure, lay into you kid if you need to. But do it at home, not on the web for everyone to see. That's gonna leave an emotional scar so deep it may never heal, especially since the internet is persistent and public. Maybe he was worried other tough guys on the web would see his daughter mouthing off publicly and think him weak for allowing it. But real men, real fathers, don't need to assert their dominance in this way. Edited February 11, 2012 by arfink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 She's fine. She. Wants to shoot her phone, too, and sell all the casings on eBay to eventually pay for a new one. As someone who had somewhat similar punishments growing up, such things teach you a life lesson and make you stronger. I approve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1328978321' post='2385445'] But the father who would do this kind of thing to his daughter in public is despicable in my opinion. Sure, lay into you kid if you need to. But do it at home, not on the web for everyone to see. [/quote] Except that the daughter posted [i]her[/i] rant online for everyone to see..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inunionwithrome Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 I have to say that I whole heartedly agree with this parent. A lot of times after my sister and I had come back from sleepovers, we used bad language. The Carrot: "If you continue to talk this way when you come back from sleepovers, you will not go to another sleepover again." Harsh? Seemed like it at the time. Any worse for the wear: NO! We learned out lesson, and went about our business. Did we appreciate this "tough love" our mother gave us? Not all of the time. However, as an adult now, I appreciate the effort and time it took to put forth to raise us to value our work as so many of my generation do not. I am glad that I was taught to be respectful and to work hard for what I have. So, I think as many of the technology generation now, you have to find a way with words that they understand. Victory for dad! Also, a 15 almost 16 year old should be able to make their bed, put away clean dishes in the dishwasher, do some of their own laundry, and sweep floors. Cleaning lady or not. I had to wake up at 5:30 AM to catch the bus for an almost 2 hr bus ride, make sure my homework was done, make my bed, my own lunch, and other things that I was capable of doing. So, YAY DAD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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