By now, you’ve probably seen the video of the father that shoots his daughter’s laptop to teach her a lesson, Facebook Parenting: for the Troubled Teen. If you haven’t, you can watch it below. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Now I’m not sure how I feel about this father’s response to his daughter’s behavior, but I do know that I very rarely watch a youtube video that is over 8 minutes long and this one kept me watching until the end. I found it sort of mesmerizing.
I’ve always been a bit uncomfortable when it comes to guns in general, so it would never occur to me to introduce a gun as a tool to administer a form of punishment. Don’t worry, I am fully aware that : Guns don’t kill laptops, angry gun-owning dads kill laptops. Still I can’t help but feel for that poor wasted and recently upgraded laptop that met an untimely end. What a waste of a laptop, there are computer-less children all over the world that could have adopted it.
I’ve always been of the belief that violence begets violence (even if it is just violence against a laptop) and as if to prove my point, Beta Dad posted the following humorous-spoof-response video:
Good Lord! Dads have gone crazy!!! Hadn’t seen Beta Dad’s yet, but had seen the other one. Showed it to my teens too. Now I will have to show Beta Dad’s to my year and 1/2 old niece.
I have to agree these dad’s have gone crazy.
That was hilarious…dolly girl!
Also, the dad shooting the laptop, I was kinda mad that he didn’t take it in to donate it to a worthy charity.
Right?! Waste of a perfectly good laptop.
My 16 yr old told me about the first video when it came out, she watches a lot of stuff on youtube. Hilarious, I know people are mad that he didn’t do something else like donate that laptop, but I think he gave a strong message to his daughter and other kids out there about facebook.
I still feel bad for the laptop. Poor laptop, I don’t think it even saw it coming.
LOL! I love his spoof; it’s hilarious!
thanks for finding and posting the spoof – good stuff. I commented on G+ about the original one which showed a very over-reacting dad. He should of locked-up his gun and just sold the laptop. Based only on the clip I suspected he had a very rough time updating the laptop and was as pissed-off at the laptop as he was his teenager.
Poor laptop.
I don’t know if I agree with him shooting the laptop. My hubby was rolling on the floor over this video. He showed it to the kids and when they asked if he would do that to them, his answer was “No, probably not.” But something would be done about their attitudes leading up to that point 😉
Clearly that Dad was super mad at his daughter. I will not comment on if I think what he did was right or wrong… all I will say is…. I hope his daughter got the message and has cleaned up her act.
Parents have to put up with so much now days… and I should know! I’ve got 8 kids… 6 all grown up and two still heading into teenage-hood. It ain’t a bed of roses.
Wow! that was radical!
Wow, my kids don’t do any chores at all. That first guy has a big chip on his shoulder.
I strongly dislike this dad. I couldn’t sit through the video the first couple of times I was sent it. First off – why would he be smoking in this video??? Sign of a good parent? No. Second – she was grounded for THREE months and he can’t remember why? It must have been serious if it was for three months (or he tends to overreact). Third – TOTALLY wasteful!!! He talks about how spoiled she is and doesn’t realize how good she has it and then he destroys an expensive item that he could VERY EASILY give away to someone who has a need?? AND – if his daughter is sooooo rotten, isn’t he partially to blame for that? Ugh, I just dislike him so much!
I LOVE the spoof of this though. Thanks for sharing that. 🙂
I’ll tell you a secret, I never even watched the first one until I watched the spoof. I’m more fond of the spoof.
Unknown Mami, the first video broke my heart. That was no joke. It was pure hatred for his daughter. We can laugh at the spoof, but we can’t forget the video that started it. I worked with troubled adolescents in the States. I heard stories from students who had parents who hated them, who beat them, who raped them, who used them as prostitutes, who told their kids they regretted having them, who locked them out of the house. I befriended a kid once who begged to be put up for foster care or adoption but the police and social workers said her mother did not meet the standard to be denied the right to raise her child. Even though she called 911 over and over due to her mother’s rages, they always brought her back to her mother. Children have so little rights in this world. Maybe I am missing the joke because I am tired. Or maybe I know too many kids like the 15 year old in the video who live in a hell created by a violent, hateful parent.
Oh, I don’t think the first video is funny. I’m actually surprised at how many people like it. To me the dad comes off as totally out of control. As Kaylen pointed out, he’s smoking in the video (what he couldn’t wait until he was done?), he mentions the daughter being grounded for months but doesn’t remember why, and to me he doesn’t talk about her like a concerned parent, he just sounds angry. The second video I do find funny because that father understands that the first father was ridiculous. My coping mechanism in life is humor. It’s what has gotten me through many difficult situations in life. I wouldn’t have posted the first video without the second. The second one because I’m familiar with the blogger who did it made me at least feel like I wasn’t alone in thinking the first guy is just bonkers.
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I should know your heart by now. I was tired last night. And the smell of smoke was in the air from the horrible prison fire in Honduras last night. I live about 40 miles away. But there was smoke in the air, whether from that fire or not, I don’t know. I was very low last night. You are correct in that humor is a great way to cope.
Yikes! The first video? Provoking for her, thought-provoking for me. Poor laptop. Did it go to heaven? Then someone in heaven got a laptop, right? (just like you promised). What a waste. Where I live, there are schools that can’t afford ONE. I felt terrible about the doll being blown up in the second video also.
Crazy dads, alright. Pure loco. I ‘ve never known one :-), crazy or otherwise.
Thanks for sharing my video! I know it’s silly and kind of terrible, but I seriously think the original laptop-shooter did a horrible thing to his daughter and acted far more petulantly than she had. Aside from being childish, he also committed a really violent act (literally on the machine, and emotionally toward his daughter) and I’m glad that most of people who have commented on my video seem to have gotten the gist of my attempt at broad satire.
Before I made the video, I posted a written response about the dude on my blog. That’s one of the few places (including here) where I’ve read a lot of comments that weren’t all, “Yee-haw! Bratty teenagers? Get a rope!”
Link to rant: http://butterbeanandcobra.blogspot.com/2012/02/gun-toting-disciplinarian-dad-is-idjit.html
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