Dad Gets Revenge On FaceBook

Even I am feeling the same. Sometimes kids don't realize how they hurt their parents but their exposure to real life soon makes them realize. At the same time, destroying the laptop wasn't really a solution to the problem.

Best advice for Dads who are meeting that "first" boy over to take out his baby girl?

Shoot him. Word gets around.

It's incredible how fast the view count on that video is rising.


I imagine right about now he's wishing he had done it a bit differently.

His facebook page mentions that he's not about to do any interviews at all. He doesn't want his daughter to think that it's ok to profit from something like this.

Also - here's his story about how she got caught:

"HOW SHE GOT CAUGHT: The Dog Did It.. no, really.

I finally came out and told her this today, partly because it was too funny NOT to share.

When my daughter made her post, she used Facebook's privacy settings to block "Family" and "Church" friend's lists. All her other friends could see it. We, of course could not.

One of our dogs is always getting in photos and therefore has her own Facebook pa ...ge. It's just a cute dumb thing we did for fun. Well, the dog's profile is rarely used except when funny pictures of her are posted. Since that's not too often, and she has very few friends on Facebook, her wall is kind of bare, with relatively few posts showing up on it.

The other night we gave the dog a bath and there was a funny photo we uploaded to Facebook and tagged her in. I logged in as the dog the next morning to comment on the photo. However when I logged into the dog's profile, my daughter had forgotten to add her to the "family" list.... so our family dog's profile showed her post right there on the front page.

It wasn't any parent-hacking, computer spying, or monitoring of any kind.. the dog actually ratted her out completely by accident. She hasn't petted that dog all day today..."

Wow Sal,

My parents forbade me to get a job at that age too even though all of my friends were.

They told me that these years were going to be the ones I looked back upon as some of the best when I was older, so I needed to enjoy them and have fun.

I had my share of chores to do though before I could have that fun!

And I have a very good work ethic. There are other ways to instill that in children, IMHO.

Terra

Haha! I wish I would have had some big brothers to watch out for me.

Hubby never had a gun either, but he just has this look that is super intimidating. The kids came to call it his evil eye and they still stop dead in their tracks when they see it even though they're grown now.

One of my girls even uses it as a warning method with her kids. "Do you want me to tell Papa?" Amazingly, it works, lol!

Never has on me though!

I watched some boys literally break out in a sweat when they came calling on one of our girls and had to meet "dad" first. It was fun to watch adam's apples slide up and down in their throats too.

Terra

I agree it was excessively stupid for her to go online. But I've seen over-achieving daddy's and what they expect from kids. I had friends who never got to do anything because of parents who thought they were giving the kids "a few chores". They worked from the time they got home from school til they went to bed and nothing was ever enough. Those are the kids that went through my mind when I read this one. So if dad is being honest, then my perspective on the issue changes - if she is being honest, I stand by what I said.

I have an ex whose sister ran a daycare out of her home. She grounded her kids every chance she got for any excuse she could find just so they would have to stay home and do HER job. Parent's aren't always the ones who are right. Some kids just stink, but so do some adults. I'm not in favor of the way the guy handled the situation either way. Had my father ever done that to me, we'd still not be speaking -- but then again, I'd have never have pulled a stunt like that either. She deserved some serious consequences for that one. I just would have handled it a lot differently.

In the long run it doesn't matter what the hell I think. What matters is that the two of them can interact without major trauma.

@ Dave and Paul,

Come to think of it, looking back, the few guys that didn't hightail it and run turned out to be decent upstanding guys, but a lot of the ones who ran ended up being hooligans, trouble makers or did some jail time.

I think you Dads may be on to something!

Terra

Kay,
Did you read my post?

I raised three daughters. And my handguns are VERY clean...

Love this!!!!!!! I teach 15 yr olds all day and this sounds like them!! Good going dad!

It's a shame that song sounds a bit sexist. Frankly, I wouldn't care if I had a girl or a boy.
But it resolves well at least.

Yeah, I was not crazy about my mother coming here, but I can't help but think that maybe the timing is because SHE knew. Of course, she probably DID know about the alzheimers earlier.

No offense, but many women have this way of arguing, convincing, and blaming, and if you don't understand the goal, it COULD concievably look like alzheimers. Of course, at other times, those SAME women seem as lucid as anyone else! So what **I** thought was a pretense methodology, that my mother INTENTIONALLY employed, may have been symptoms of alzheimers. The failure to aknowledge mistakes she made, or statements I made that were contrary to what she wanted, or old habits/preferences I have that she doesn't like, or refusals to do what she wanted, may have been due to her MEMORY.

She had problems going the wrong way on streets, and she said it was night vision. I figured it was eyesight and carelessness. I found one list that actually has PRECISELY that symptom as a symptom for alzheimers!!!!!

I WAS shocked at the specificity of her understanding of icons, etc... and refusal to acknowledge certain accomplishments, etc.... over the past decade or so. I always chalked it up to a common malady that existed in the late 70s and up for as long as I could adequately track it. I decided to call it technophobia. I don't think I EVER heard the term before that. I called it techophobia simply because it fit so well. Some people tended to act like idiots around technical devices NOT because they WERE idiots but because they felt SO intimidated that they were unwilling to even TRY to learn. Some even bought lower quality and higher price gadgets SIMPLY because they were simpler.

BTW advancements up to the 70s generally SIMPLIFIED operation and seemed minor. At THIS point, kids are BROUGHT UP with it, and there was never an option. Take an amish adult of 20+ and expose them to stuff of today, and you may see the SAME effect, although THEY are brought up to endure, and work through problems.

If I ever wanted a few extra bucks, I could just go to someone and help them hook up their stereo, get a computer up(if they were daring), or even set their VCR clock and timer! If I told anyone I worked with computers, they were incredulous, or said I must REALLY be great at math. There was a myth that you had to be VERY good at math to work with computers. They ALSO thought I must have played a lot of computer games, etc... Kind of a DUMB myth, but OH WELL...

Anyway, I set my mother up on about 4 FREE internet services. One she even used several times to send me Emails! But she later asked if I knew of ANY free one that worked. I had to shrug my shoulders, say they all worked the same basic way, and I didn't know of any others I could even try. Of course flying there, installing it, correcting problems, and training her was no longer worth it.

But, after almost 10 years, she decided to "be near me, in another state"? YEAH, I KNOW! I make alzheimers sound SO obvious now! But she WAS, at times, very lucid, and this IS over 10 years of observation.

BTW those technophobes are responsible for creating the myth that many kids, and younger adults, believe today, that people in my father's generation, and generation X, really don't understand technology, and never could. Ironically, THEY are often isolated from a lot of technology, and may stumble with problems that may be OBVIOUS to people like me or my father.

Steve

Exactly, I can also imagine that this would happen to her later that evening

Yep...Doing the right thing is often work. And if she didn't do her volunteer work, she'd be grounded/room-bound without phone or tv until she did.

And who cares about coverage? Dad says that isn't why he did it.

If non Americans have that concept they are way off base about America.

Once again,someone that doesn't have a clue.

At least you paid attention Steve, apparently many did not.

Yes, TL, you have posted that what, 3 or 4 times in this thread already? We get it :rolleyes:



And for the record, I among many other posters here, actually applaud the father. The majority of us that do probably have daughters and are actually trying to teach them values.. How many of you that are condemning the man do?

I think most can see the guy who shot the lap top as thats life and maybe a good lesson for the girl to get off her backside, but beating a child like that ? in the second video / there is no way anyone can justify treating a person like that.

As a child i was beaten daily with belts and horse whips, to a point my welts from the beatings bled constantly this happened for years, it came to a point where i could not cry anymore as a child, I no longer feel pain.

When i was a lot older I rebelled against the constant beating and abuse, and god help anyone i see hurt another child like that.

people have no idea of the pure fear and how scared you are when this happens.

And yes since then i have had 2 daughters go through the teenage years, they only know love.

No one will every justify beating a child like that, I felt all of that girls pain come back like it was yesterday, If i could still cry i would.

Pussy's like that guy would be a cake walk for me now.

VERY WELL SAID Kay!!

First, your premise isn't 100% correct.

Second, you'll never convince me destruction is better than donating and that having her spend time with less fortunate kids is a bad thing.

And if you want to juggle jello, freeze it first.

Kim, Because they don't understand that, for many people, a gun isn't about violence. They think anyone who would shoot a laptop is some kind of crazy nutball.

If the young lady grew up around guns, this is nothing more than Dad making a point. Not a point she's likely to be happy about, but certainly not one that would be any more harrowing than if he'd just dropped the thing off a bridge.

But some folks who hate guns won't "get" that.

She made her point on Facebook, he responded on Facebook. He did it in a way that will make a lot of other kids think twice about what they say online, and to whom. And he probably woke a lot of parents up to something they ought to be watching.

For all the dramatic flair, all the guy really did was ground her and take away her laptop.

Derek, Privacy? She posted it on Facebook. Do you really think parents of young children shouldn't be monitoring what their kids say online? A public response to a public statement. A response, by the way, which was far more civil and respectful than her comments. Only if guns are unusual in their lifestyle. I thought about that as a potential problem, but I don't see it. The guy wasn't making a big deal out of the gun, and his wife wouldn't have said to put one in it for her if it was something new and scary.


Paul

We used to make "knox blocks" - adding knox gelatin to jello to make a treat you could hold in your hand to eat.

Goofing around one day my sons and I (they were teens) got into a knox blocks fight (in the house) and we went nuts throwing them at each other. I guess I started it when I put a cold piece of jello in my sons sneaker:rolleyes:. Jello on the ceiling - oh my.

Then we all got busy and cleaned it up - and no one complained about being enslaved. We were still laughing.

Twenty years from now that girl will be telling her own daughter "you think you've got it hard - my dad shot my computer"....it will be a family legend.

Maybe Dave. However I'm 99% certain I wouldn't result to that.

No. I just think there could have been a better way of dealing with it.

I've lived in lots of cultures and if there is one thing I have learned, individuals are different. Some are mentally agile and flexible, and more likely to be diplomatic inclined towards strategic and educational solutions involving dialog. Others are rigid-minded and inflexible, and more likely to be disciplinarians inclined towards violent solutions involving forcefully imposing one's will on those over whom they have power. I've come to believe genetics is biggest determinant in how someone will behave. I'd wager that that guy was born that way and would be the same anywhere and that culture has nothing to do with it. He'd use a rock on that computer if access to guns wasn't easy.

I agree with you on this point.