Let's make this clear: responding to your teenage child's words with violence is NOT OKAY.

[riderinthestorm]

95. Again, you don't know any details. Neither do I. Its youtube, designed for drama

I understand the outrage about destroying something that's perfectly useful because you're poor. In their defense, many poor people don't know that you can re-purpose a washing machine drum and hook it up to a bicycle to create a pedal-powered washing machine. Yeehaw indeed. Welcome to the 21st century where virtually ALL of our population doesn't recycle like that.

But this guy is an IT guy. So is my Dad. He takes apart perfectly useful pieces of computer equipment just to examine their structure (he's a retired EE, one of the pioneers in computer design both hardware and software from Bell Labs). IT guys, in my experience, don't "value" electronics like we do. There's always "more", always parts, always ways to put it all back together.... I'm 110% sure this guy had access to a fried duplicate of his daughter's machine to "shoot". We have no way of knowing that was the actual machine or simply drama for youtube....

"Wrong" and "wasteful" messages when applied to teens are meaningless in my direct experience. I've "wasted" time and resources trying to get my teen to a better place. That my "wasted" efforts, both financial and personal, aren't apparent to anyone else doesn't matter. It was what I had to do. I've also been told how "wrong" I am as a parent in some of my parenting efforts. Of course, many more "praise" those same actions... so there's that. I just don't see how you can know this family, from a single youtube video. It seems awfully presumptuous.