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In reply to the discussion: Father teaches daughter a lesson about facebook... [View all]Londoncalling
(66 posts)321. If you give a gift to someone is it still yours?
Do you take it back if they say something you don't like or get angry with you?
She is 15 and trying to do her job which is school work. She is also doing her chores, she isn't refusing to do them. Plenty of wives make the same complaints about their husbands making the nice clean kitchen floor, dirty and not caring..online too..
What if she had lots of school work on that laptop, photos, music files which are all lost.
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Edited: I posted this before I watched the video. Then I watched the video and posted downthread.
Brickbat
Feb 2012
#1
I agree, kids who are respected learn respect. "Automatic respect" is a contradiction in terms.
TheWraith
Feb 2012
#179
Unfortunately, all the idiots who love to punish their kids because they're too lazy to parent...
HuckleB
Feb 2012
#255
This guy is mental and I wouldn't be surprise if this guy is mentally abusing the girl if not
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#37
Griping about your parents is pretty much SOP with teenagers. Dad really took this too far.
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2012
#44
She didn't do it to his face. She did it where she expected it to only be seen by friends.
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2012
#49
I hope she learned one of the first things anyone should know about the Internet:
Brickbat
Feb 2012
#52
Wonder how he will react to seeing her pregnant DNA testing a bunch of guys on Jerry Springer?
Generic Other
Feb 2012
#39
well, except for shooting the laptop (i'd have sold it) i don't think this guy did anything awful,
Scout
Feb 2012
#111
You don't think this video is likely indicative of the lack of actual parenting this guy has done?
HuckleB
Feb 2012
#265
The gun thing is disturbing--too much. I think the point of the video is that
TwilightGardener
Feb 2012
#40
It sounds like dad is an ass who wants total and complete control of his daughter.
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2012
#42
If the father had simply put it in a garbage truck, would we be as upset?
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#47
Well, do you teach your daughter lessons by shooting her shit and posting it online?
EOTE
Feb 2012
#91
You'd have to be an idiot to think that shooting at a computer on the ground is target practice.
EOTE
Feb 2012
#330
Does the attention-seeking publicity make it sick, sad, and possible diagnostic?
HuckleB
Feb 2012
#251
The more I read the reactions here, the more I think the outrage is triggered by the man's
Brickbat
Feb 2012
#54
I love the fact that he started out by telling his daughter not to call Linda a cleaning lady ever
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2012
#56
When it started, my biases leapt right up, I'll admit it. I'm a total accent snob.
Brickbat
Feb 2012
#59
Did you listen to the complaints? Would it be okay if his wife was complaining about the chores
Londoncalling
Feb 2012
#317
Linda is not her step mother. She is a friend of the family. If you watch the entire (unedited)
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2012
#319
You really can't tell "what he will do" because you don't really know him.
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2012
#324
I was raised not to engage in wrathful destruction. I'd think that anyone who destroys a machine...
JVS
Feb 2012
#163
Seems that way to me as well. I have no issue with this man's method of dealing with his daughter.
FedUpWithIt All
Feb 2012
#280
I could care less if this guy shoots up a laptop, but putting it on youtube is just in bad taste.
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#86
Your point was understood however clouded by your seemingly anti gun meme aimed at "all" gun owners.
L0oniX
Feb 2012
#93
and this probably isnt the first time the daughter has pissed her parents off.
whoohoo
Feb 2012
#162
"It is against county law here to discharge a gun anywhere other than at a range."
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#118
I thought he was mad because she posted an angry rant about her parents, not for being lazy!
Quantess
Feb 2012
#143
It shows me that children do not respect their parents or what their parents do for them.
whoohoo
Feb 2012
#158
so when he said his daughter did the same thing 3 months prior to this one he must have grabbed his
whoohoo
Feb 2012
#169
I imagine his campaign to publicly humiliate his daughter only spread said post. (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2012
#246
How can anyone believe a guy who clearly wants big time attention for himself.
HuckleB
Feb 2012
#292
Jeez - can't help but wonder where her feelings about her parents are originating
Matariki
Feb 2012
#239
Would have liked to hear the words "You know we love you but..." At least once.
Quixote1818
Feb 2012
#259
If you're posting such a pre-determined post it on youtube, you're showboating...
HuckleB
Feb 2012
#260
It's the norm these days to get divorced. Dad was clearly ticked off about treatment to Mom
Honeycombe8
Feb 2012
#295
Wasteful... He should've used cheap FMJ practice ammo instead of "$1 per shot" premium JHP ammo.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Feb 2012
#325