Dad shoots up daughter's laptop....

Finally more people start to agree. I think this situation could've and should've been handled in a completely different way. For #1 why the heck would you take a shot gun and shoot something that you probably spent hundreds of dollars on for your child? That's just freaking stupid if you ask me. I know that if I bought my kids a laptop and if they posted something like that, they'd be grounded and not have their electronics and what not. I would NEVER shoot such an expensive thing like that. I don't agree with posting that video on facebook either. I mean don't get me wrong what that girl did was totally and completely wrong, but to post that video and show it to the whole world and now everyone is talking about it (I think it was on the news too..not positive) that girl might even try to kill herself from being so embarassed. I hope that the girl and her family sort things out and that they learn their lessons.

A-freaking-men, haha. It's no wonder the daughter is prone to irrational outbursts on Facebook, look at her role model. Really crappy parenting if you ask me.

I'm not into humiliating my child now, and I doubt I will be 10 years from now.  I don't agree with how he handled it at all. The video made me feel queasy when I watched it, and then he pulled out the gun...Ugh. I'm sure all this teen learned is to count the seconds til she's 18.

And I agree that if he wanted to take away the computer, fine. That's a logical consequence and one I can get onboard with. But sell it on craigslist or donate it for pete's sake. I would feel threatened as all get out if someone (anyone! but especially someone who's supposed to love me!) shot up any of my possessions like that. 

I donno, I think it would have been better to find a deserving kid and show the dad giving the laptop to him. Also honestly, I think he sunk to the level of a 15yr old by posting fbook vid and it comes off kinda like hes showing off. That being said i dont disagree with his actions and the laptop would be gone in my house as well , i just dont think i would do it in the exact way he did. Overall though it could be a lot more extreme .

i think people need to stop treating teenagers like they are babies. if this girl has big enough balls to say that about her parents then she needs to have big enough balls to hear how her behavior made other people feel, even if it isnt very nice.

taking it to extremes would have been beating her ass, which is what would have happened to me if i had done that when i was 15.

I agree with you. I think he took it too extremes.

Yeah, those were pretty much my thoughts! It's not the approach I would've taken but I think I get where he was coming from. And having read the follow-up, it sounds like it was effective but his daughter wasn't humiliated or whatever; she got the point.

I hope that my kids don't feel this sense of entitlement when they get to be that age. I think that he is the parent, that was his property, and he did not hurt anyone. He has the right as the parent to decide how he punishes his child. I did not like how he said that he was dissapointed by her. He could have said that he was dissapointed by her actions or something.

I totally agree with everythin' he did. If my daughter ever posted somethin' like that on the internet, I would get rid of her laptop as well.

I like the way he did it. Honestly, I would do something similar if my daughter did something like that, except I would throw it in a fire because I don't have a gun.

I do wish he maybe would have given the computer away to someone who needed one rather than destroy it, but aside from that... I feel like he was kind of justified.  Sounds like his daughter has some entitlement issues and she needed to learn a lesson.