A-fuckin-men. I can’t say that enough, myself, as an NRA member.
So she’s lived with him for six months. She was grounded for three of those months for some other thing she apparently posted online (per his comments in the video) and now he has shot her laptop to death. Yes, clearly stellar parenting is happening here.
Or the flip side could be that she was a huge discipline problem, which is why the draconian measures and her getting shunted off to him in the first place. Just sayin’.
When I think “huge discipline problem” with a 15-year-old, here’s what I think:
-Gang membership
-Drug use
-Pregnancy/STDs
-Violence
-Chronic truancy
-Bitching about parents on Facebook
Wait, actually, I think about five of those things. The sixth one I don’t think about.
Sure, it’s possible that this girl was also dealing meth for the Crips instead of going to school. But I get the impression that this dad would have mentioned it if the kid were doing anything else wrong.
Also, Dad. Not making any comparisons, but charging people for the bullet you use for their punishment? Not putting yourself in great company here.
There is nothing “disrespectful” about a kid complaining about her parents. That’s absolutely normal behavior. What’s shocking is a parent who thinks he has the right to control what a child says to other people.
Whatever you do as a parent, one of your obligations is not to embarrass your child in public.
The gun thing – that’s just monstrous.
No. Monstrous is beating a child, or telling the child you wish they’d never been born, or molesting a child, or using the child to perform some sort of fraud against their other parent, or so on. This isn’t monstrous. This is just shitty parenting.
Someday I must tell my grandchildren that I witnessed the rise of the Phony Common Man talking-point whore of the 2012 election: Joe the Farmer
Late to the party, of course, I’ve got better things to do than drop into a Facebook Drama, but everyone’s talking about it here in Charlotte. My initial reaction:
Wow. Over-react much? And I say this as a parent of a 13-year-old with a Facebook account who doesn’t do all of her chores and sometimes seems ungrateful and rude. But, seriously. If you can’t manage to parent your children without involving the use of a firearm and/or YouTube, you might just want to look in the mirror.
What would be the point in buying something else for him to steal and destroy?
the point would be that she paid for it which he discussed in the video.
And the use of a firearm to confront any problem that doesn’t have to do with the threat of imminent bodily harm doesn’t earn this dick the benefit of the doubt.
Deadeye [del]Dick[/del] Dad made sure he described the handgun and the ammunition. To me that level of detail was hardly necessary; we see the gun in his hand, and instantly know what he’s about to do. Granted, introducing and describing the props may have been critical to the dramatic flow of his grandstanding presentation, but does anybody else see it as conveying a veiled, implied threat at some level? (Even if “only” a melodramatic teenage bluster kind of thing. Blustery teenager being the father’s level of emotional maturity, IMO.)
I’m speaking as a handgun owner, FWIW.
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As she paid for the other computer; that didn’t stop him.
I envision a followup, somehow, wherein the headline is “Internet-famous dieselfucker arrested following firearm discharge in public library. No injuries, one computer destroyed beyond repair”.
Duh! Only now noticed that Phreesh (post #159) already mentioned it. So I’m not the only one. Just a careless reader of other people’s posts.
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PunditLisa, I’m not trying to tell anyone how to raise their child. FTR I don’t think you’re a bad mother. But I’ll venture to comment on this.
To me, money is not really the issue, it’s the issue of wasting something that’s still perfectly good, something that a lot of people would like to have, therefore easy to give away, and something many people could not afford. But then I was raised by two people who were poor in their youth, and they made an effort to try to reuse things, and avoided the whole disposable objects culture we live in nowadays. When I left Switzerland to move back to the USA, my Dad gave me his US drill that is older than I am. He’d been using it in Switzerland with a plug adapter, but he knew I would need one over here so after 30 years he bought a new drill so that I can have the American one. The thing is made of metal and is pretty heavy (looks something like this) but I still use it nowadays, because there’s nothing wrong with it.
I’d also be afraid that breaking things as a form of discipline reinforces the idea that when you’re mad, you break something. Like those cliches of people throwing plates against the wall when they’re in an argument.