I thought he was never going to do an interview. Oh wait, d-bags love the fame. He's a second rate Joe-the-plumber.

For someone who only wanted to communicate via Facebook because he didn't want his words twisted, and someone who wanted to show his daughter that you it would be wrong to profit from this, he's totally bought into the AWing, fatass Kardashian-level and all.

Hopefully, he'll have his "Balloon Boy" moment. Soon.

Oh, screw it all. He'll have his own redneck hillbilly tech support show on Discovery. When's the next flight off this planet?

Ya know...

My father got pissed at me and sent my pet Jersey off to be slaughtered. My rabbits got sent to auction for meat and he sold my horse.
I'd asked for these things and my folks got them for me out of their hard-earned money. I started acting like an entitled, bratty, lil biatch and didn't hold my end of the bargain... do farm work, not act like an utter brat, and take care of my animals. And I persisted in acting like a brat even after being warned of the potential outcome.


A laptop (with BACKED UP data) ain't shiate.

Kids are dumb and often don't believe there are actual consequences until the actually experience said consequences. The only thing that got hurt in this entire thing was an inanimate object that would be entirely obsolete in a very short time.
Frankly, the life lesson (providing it is learned) is going to do that girl a lot more good in the long run than that laptop ever would.

TheOmni: Yes, that makes it much less threatening and controlling.

THIS.

Seriously, if you're so incapable of handling children that you shoot their things when they don't obey RIGHT THIS SECOND!!!111!!1!, you might want to go forwarn CPS that you've got only a few months before you start abusing them.

/Really, this is the entire mentality behind abuse: You Are Mine, You Are Not Obeying Me, Ergo I Punish You.
//A normal parent is the one who doesn't feel the need to not only break into locked FB posts, but shoot things because their teenager whined on FB.

Boy, this sure takes away from the 'I'm pissed and I'm doing this as a spur of the moment thing, and deciding to make a video just because' thing, doesn't it. Take away the supposed spontaneity, and you just have a schmuck who wanted to get on YouTube.

As for those who are saying that it was somehow 'admirable', they are ignoring that fact that he most likely PAID for the laptop originally, it's a stupid move, he could have wiped and sold it and made just as good a point, while getting at least something for his investment.

And as for HOW he did the backup, who knows? The original story pointed out that the guy works in the IT field, so I'm pretty sure he understands how to back up data and image a hard drive.

I'm also curious about his original claims that his .45 rounds cost a buck a piece, did he pull them straight from the Pope's ass or something? You can fire some generic grade ammo into a laptop just as well, and save a shiat-ton of money in the process. Just reinforces the idea that he is a publicity whore.

I thought he wasn't going to do interviews and didn't want to make money from this?

Where did your self-proclaimed morals go?


/oTher than to the bank

If your reaction as a parent to teenage rebellion is to pull out your gun and shoot something rather than dealing with the actual issue, you failed.

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is this the same guy that said he'd never go on TV to talk about it?

Kids - and hell, a lot of adults - occasionally need to be reminded that somebody else (usually their parents, or the government, or their much put-upon spouse) is carrying their weight + 1. This guy gave his kid a rather overly dramatic, somewhat drama queen-ey reality check, but it was a reality check and I still approve.

After all, it was his damned laptop.

Remembering to always back up is just another lesson that everybody has to learn eventually.

The Onion is becoming prophetic

That guy is still retarded. Maybe even more retarded than I originally thought because this means he took time to actually think this pretty well through.

/such a wasteful society we live in...

Mog32Kupo: Well backing up her data just proves as much as a backwater rube he looks to be, he still has some tech savvy.

I still liked the swift hand of justice he served on his kid.

Would I have done it? No! ...I don't own a gun


/Probably would of ran over it with the car
//or submerge it in water

I'd have wiped it and sold it

to someone in another city

Pretty sure one of the first things he says in that video is that he works in IT, so not too surprising. Kinda funny in a weird way.

vrax: cYn21: To anyone still propping him up as a great father: I assure you that girl didn't magically become a spoiled brat overnight. Someone raised her that way.

Hate to tell ya, but sometimes these things are more complex than you are insinuating. Peer influence and other factors can make quite an impact on child behavior.


Yes. I'm aware of that, but a child in a broken home with a new step-mother can also influence her behavior. My point is that he surely didn't just wake up that morning and realize his child was a spoiled brat. He's also only given his side of the story.

How did she get that laptop? Her clothes? Her iPad? Etc.? They didn't just fall out of the sky. Daddy bought them for her. Now he's suddenly Billy bad ass because she insulted him on Facebook?

His reaction was unwarranted and excessive. Was that video necessary? He claims in it that his daughter won't even see it, but he made sure it went online for everyone else to see. Was shooting that laptop necessary? Way to waste a machine worth a grand or so. His reaction showed more of his ego than his stellar parenting skills.

He's just as immature as his daughter apparently is.

To anyone still propping him up as a great father: I assure you that girl didn't magically become a spoiled brat overnight. Someone raised her that way.

Cool. He's still a childish white-trash hick.

I finally watched that video for the first time recently. Between the guy claiming he was a highschool student/college student/firefighter at 15 and his nonsense about "exploding hollowpoints," (to say nothing of filming himself shooting a computer) I dismissed him as an attention whore.

He also claimed to be an IT expert who cleverly got into his daughter's account, then later admitted that he only saw her rant because of access through another shared account that she forgot to block.

I don't care if the girl is in the right or in the wrong. Her daddy's a buffoon.

He could have just taken away her computer. He wanted to commit a violent act, and they are done to intimidate.

PoochUMD: Mikey1969: loonatic112358: I'd have wiped it and sold it

to someone in another city


Yep, shooting it is just stupid. Waste of money.ihatedumbpeople: Hmmm...I didn't get the impression that he went looking for attention.

HE POSTED A VIDEO ON YOU TUBE.

How the Hell is that 'not looking for attention'? If he wanted to remain anonymous and still send the video message to his daughter, there are other ways that don't involve the interwebs...

So anyone who has ever posted anything on youtube is looking for attention? It's not like he sent it out to media outlets. His daughter wrote a letter about how bad her parents/life were and posted it on facebook. He made a rebuttal video and posted it on her facebook page so the same people would see the followup.

He's a grown man acting out with a firearm because he feels threatened by what a bunch of Junior High Schoolers are saying about him on Facebook.

It's got nothing to do with discipline and everything to do with wanting to look like a badass to a bunch of teenaged girls.

Critch: If your reaction as a parent to teenage rebellion is to pull out your gun and shoot something rather than dealing with the actual issue, you failed.

That guy's daughter is a drama queen because he is a drama queen.

Every kid needs to be disciplined now an then. Making a public spectacle out of it serves only to gratify your own ego.

loonatic112358: I'd have wiped it and sold it

to someone in another city


Yep, shooting it is just stupid. Waste of money.ihatedumbpeople: Hmmm...I didn't get the impression that he went looking for attention.

HE POSTED A VIDEO ON YOU TUBE.

How the Hell is that 'not looking for attention'? If he wanted to remain anonymous and still send the video message to his daughter, there are other ways that don't involve the interwebs...

netweavr: I still don't see how this became "news"

I'm getting a kick from "the method of backup" being the controversy right now.

Fark Me Runnin: Imaging hard drives is difficult??

Time consuming, mildly inconvenient on a laptop, requires hardware that non-heat-seeking laptops rarely have vs. a minute with a screwdriver? He pulled the hard drive.

Fark Me Runnin: emersonbiggins: DNRTFA, but I think he just physically removed the drive before he shot the laptop all to hell. You guys that are thinking this guy is imaging hard drives in his spare time are precious.

Imaging hard drives is difficult??



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darkscout: Those who missed the video he's an IT guy.

This. He couldn't help hisself.

He's also a redneck, so he couldn't resist trying to resolve an issue by shooting something.

Redneck and IT support is probably a frequent combination in the south east of the United States. It certainly is in the northern parts of Australia. Julian Assange? Townsville. Same as the Powerpuff Girls.

emersonbiggins: DNRTFA, but I think he just physically removed the drive before he shot the laptop all to hell.

He's in IT. I've no doubt he simply pulled the hard drive.

DNRTFA, but I think he just physically removed the drive before he shot the laptop all to hell. You guys that are thinking this guy is imaging hard drives in his spare time are precious.

umad: Here we go again. Get your hissy fits ready, and GO!

Forget it from me. I gave up on having an opinion once everyone declared him a hero, his wife asked him to shot one for her, cops patted him of the back and gave him a case of beer, and CPS gave him "Father of the Year" honors.

Doctor Phil trolled him hard and good, and yanked him into the spotlight. That's why he's on the AW tour.

umad: Here we go again. Get your hissy fits ready, and GO!

I'm guessing you're a troll, but can you imagine what an awesome gift that would be for an under-privileged youth? I would have loved a computer when I was a kid and I'm sure there are plenty of kids even these days whose parents can't afford one.

If I were her dad, I would have made her destroy it herself

He calls himself an IT EXPERT...

Why not remove the hard drive first?

If you look at his bullet spread, he missed the 2.5 inch drive so his "$130 in software" is intact

Why do I care about this?