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Penny Lane · 02-11-2012, 04:17 AM

Kids, watch what you post on Facebook!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU

MrCleveland · 02-11-2012, 10:13 AM

I saw that...and if I ever did that to my parents, I'd probably be disowned.

Penny Lane · 02-11-2012, 11:43 AM

What a sniveling little brat that man has!

MrCleveland · 02-11-2012, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Penny Lane

What a sniveling little brat that man has!

The day I get married and if we decide to have a child...I'd rather have a son. Though they'll be rambunctious when they're young...at least they'll be laid-back when they get older!

AKA · 02-11-2012, 02:52 PM

I think the guy's an idiot. He makes any good point he had (and he has many) with his reprehensible behavior. No wonder his daughter misbehaves.

JamesG · 02-11-2012, 05:54 PM

LOL

Yooch · 02-11-2012, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AKA

I think the guy's an idiot. He makes any good point he had (and he has many) with his reprehensible behavior. No wonder his daughter misbehaves.

I agree with what you said and think you said it well.

robyrob · 02-12-2012, 02:13 PM

the guy is a jackass; he can raise his daughter any way he wants to, but what he did was comparable to reading her diary and then setting the couch on fire - he could have just grounded her and donated the laptop to a school or charity.

Yooch · 02-13-2012, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by robyrob

the guy is a jackass; he can raise his daughter any way he wants to, but what he did was comparable to reading her diary and then setting the couch on fire - he could have just grounded her and donated the laptop to a school or charity.

Well said. I sense his hurt and frustration, but like you, think he handled it in a reactive, inappropriate way. But we've all made mistakes, and hopefully he, and his daughter will have learned from this experience.

Tweety · 02-13-2012, 08:17 PM

The father did the right thing.

This was not comparable to reading her diary. If she'd written in her diary what she posted on Facebook and her father somehow found out about it, then the two of them could work it out between themselves. But once the daughter goes public with this stuff, all bets are off.

What the daughter wrote on Facebook was totally inappropriate for a 15 year old snot who probably has a hard time wiping her OWN a**.

She wants to show her friends how cool she is. Fine. Expect to pay some heavy consequences. Besides, this was apparently NOT the first time she did something like this, and she was warned about doing it again. She went one step too far in calling what she assumed was his bluff. Only he wasn't bluffing.

The father has a perfect right to do what he did to her laptop, since he's undoubtedly the one who paid for it. He gave it to her, he can take it away. There's no constitutional right to a laptop. He doesn't have to donate it to charity or a school.

Now the question is, will the stupid 15 year old snot learn anything from THIS experience? Hopefully, she'll remember the consequences of doing something stupid like this long after she forgets the names of all of the other snots she's trying to impress.

I did not hear any unreasonable comments from the father in that video.

Sterling Holobyte · 02-14-2012, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Tweety

The father did the right thing.

I agree. As I was watching the video I was thinking to myself, "Why doesn't that guy just take away that self-centered brat's internet privileges."

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Originally Posted by Psychster

What if she kills herself now? Or someone else?

If she kills herself or someone else, she has deeper problems than just a father making her take some responsibility for her actions and her disrespecting her parents.

Tweety · 02-14-2012, 07:19 AM

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...As a conceal carry permit holder, I don't appreciate this guy making gun owners look like a bunch of lead flinging loonies. Yeah, buddy, you have a .45. So do I and bigger. I'm not impressed.

... "

Would you have been more impressed if he used a more powerful weapon? The .45 did the job, and that's the name of the game, is it not?

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...All he did was give his daughter more reason to hate him. Didn't he say something like, "This round is from your mother." Wow, both of them are idiots!

She will NEVER forgive them for this. She's young. What's their excuse? And twenty years from now, when she's grown up and actually moved out of hillbillyville and made something of herself, she'll look back in horror. This will be online FOREVER!....

I guess their excuse is that he's a hillbilly, right? But he did mention that the chores that she is responsible for would take less than 15 min/day. So let's double that to 30 minutes. What's the big deal from the daughter's POV? His daughter is whining about cleaning up after everybody and making everybody's bed. He plainly said that all she has to do is make her own. Most of us probably had to make our own beds growing up, and long before we were 15.

Spoiled brats who complain about having to do 15 or 20 minutes worth of chores per day don't usually make anything of themselves. That attitude doesn't work in the real world.

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Not to mention, no one knows what's actually going on in that home. I'm sure I said some mean things about my parents without ever coming out with the worst of what was actually going on. I would have been better off being raised by wolves, but I vented without letting the real nasty stuff out.

Or maybe the girl is mentally ill or mentally handicapped. What if she kills herself now? Or someone else? Going to praise the jerk then? For all we know, he's molesting the kid and she's crying for help. Seriously, we don't know what's going on here and it's VERY creepy.

Teen age suicide does seem to be an epidemic these days. When it happens because of bullying at school that parents and teachers refuse to deal with, it's truly a tragedy.

If she kills herself, that doesn't change the fact that the father had every right to do what he did in that video. And taking away a spoiled brat's cell phone and/or laptop is a perfectly reasonable punishment when a kid posts the things that little snot posted.

If she kills someone else, well, you as a gun owner should know better than most that guns don't kill people, people kill people. Guns have no mind of their own (although I know it does seem like they do sometimes).

As far as accusing the guy of molesting her, that might be going a little far. The daughter could, of course, kill herself and leave behind some kind of a message that she was being molested, as her ultimate way of getting back at him. But if that happened, I'm not sure that too many people would believe that that was actually going on.

Brad Russ · 02-14-2012, 09:09 AM

That was funny. All in all, I agree with the guy. He was a little over the top, but I think that was kind of the point. The way that child disrespected her parents was shocking. It amazes me too that Facebook would allow an underage child to use that kind of language. They can't watch a rated R movie, yet they are allowed to be totally uncensored on Facebook, be it there inappropriate dress, vile language, and total disrespect for authority. This guy works his ass off for her, gives her shelter, a cell phone, and spends hours working on her little computer, and how does she thank him? Girl got what she deserved in my opinion. Sometimes it takes extreme measures to get a point across, hopefully this will teach her a little respect. He tried going easy on her to no avail, that didn't work, so obviously more extreme measures were required. I applaud this guy!

Tweety · 02-15-2012, 01:21 AM

I saw a brief blurb about this story on Fox & Friends this morning (Tues)... apparently, the father is not going to try to cash in on this, the media is all over the place trying to interview him, he says he will not do any interviews. But they did say that the local police did pay the father a visit...and they (the police) thanked him for posting the video.

Waterston_Fan · 02-15-2012, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Tweety

I saw a brief blurb about this story on Fox & Friends this morning (Tues)... apparently, the father is not going to try to cash in on this, the media is all over the place trying to interview him, he says he will not do any interviews. But they did say that the local police did pay the father a visit...and they (the police) thanked him for posting the video.

They probably paid him a visit because he fired off a gun. I thought that was illegal.

02-11-2012, 04:17 AM	#1
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02-11-2012, 10:13 AM	#2
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02-11-2012, 02:52 PM	#5
AKA Under old management. Forum Star Join Date: Dec 17, 2001 Location: Southern California Posts: 16,612	I think the guy's an idiot. He makes any good point he had (and he has many) with his reprehensible behavior. No wonder his daughter misbehaves.
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02-12-2012, 02:13 PM	#8
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02-13-2012, 08:17 PM	#10
Tweety Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jan 18, 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 6,804	The father did the right thing. This was not comparable to reading her diary. If she'd written in her diary what she posted on Facebook and her father somehow found out about it, then the two of them could work it out between themselves. But once the daughter goes public with this stuff, all bets are off. What the daughter wrote on Facebook was totally inappropriate for a 15 year old snot who probably has a hard time wiping her OWN a**. She wants to show her friends how cool she is. Fine. Expect to pay some heavy consequences. Besides, this was apparently NOT the first time she did something like this, and she was warned about doing it again. She went one step too far in calling what she assumed was his bluff. Only he wasn't bluffing. The father has a perfect right to do what he did to her laptop, since he's undoubtedly the one who paid for it. He gave it to her, he can take it away. There's no constitutional right to a laptop. He doesn't have to donate it to charity or a school. Now the question is, will the stupid 15 year old snot learn anything from THIS experience? Hopefully, she'll remember the consequences of doing something stupid like this long after she forgets the names of all of the other snots she's trying to impress. I did not hear any unreasonable comments from the father in that video.
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02-11-2012, 11:43 AM	#3
Penny Lane Butter Pie Forum Icon Join Date: Jul 03, 2001 Location: Beneath the blue suburban skies Posts: 51,426	What a sniveling little brat that man has!

02-11-2012, 05:54 PM	#6
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02-14-2012, 09:09 AM	#13
Brad Russ Member Forum Star Join Date: Feb 17, 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 10,085	That was funny. All in all, I agree with the guy. He was a little over the top, but I think that was kind of the point. The way that child disrespected her parents was shocking. It amazes me too that Facebook would allow an underage child to use that kind of language. They can't watch a rated R movie, yet they are allowed to be totally uncensored on Facebook, be it there inappropriate dress, vile language, and total disrespect for authority. This guy works his ass off for her, gives her shelter, a cell phone, and spends hours working on her little computer, and how does she thank him? Girl got what she deserved in my opinion. Sometimes it takes extreme measures to get a point across, hopefully this will teach her a little respect. He tried going easy on her to no avail, that didn't work, so obviously more extreme measures were required. I applaud this guy!
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02-15-2012, 01:21 AM	#14
Tweety Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jan 18, 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 6,804	I saw a brief blurb about this story on Fox & Friends this morning (Tues)... apparently, the father is not going to try to cash in on this, the media is all over the place trying to interview him, he says he will not do any interviews. But they did say that the local police did pay the father a visit...and they (the police) thanked him for posting the video.