Call it a lesson in parenting a child with a Facebook account.
Facebook is an excellent way for people to connect and stay in touch. It also lets people rant about pretty much whatever they want.
But the father of one North Carolina teenager took exception to something his daughter wrote.
In response to a Facebook post the 15-year-old wrote bashing her parent over chores, Tommy Jordan - who, by the way, works in IT - shot nine "exploding hollow point" rounds into the laptop from his .45 calibre pistol.
The description at the Youtube video reads:
My daughter thought it would be funny/rebellious/cool to post on her Facebook wall just how upset she was and how unfair her life here is; how we work her too hard with chores, never pay her for chores, and just in general make her life difficult.
She chose to share this with the entire world on Facebook and block her parent’s from seeing it. Well, umm… she failed. As of the end of this video, she won’t have to worry anymore about posting inappropriate things on Facebook…
Maybe a few kids can take something away from this… If you’re so disrespectful to your parents and yourself as to post this kind of thing on Facebook, you’re deserving of some tough love. Today, my daughter is getting a dose of tough love.
Jordan is seen sitting in a lawnchair, calmly smoking a cigarette, reading the post his daughter thought he would never see. He mentions that he just spent over $100 fixing his daughter's computer, and did not appreciate finding the post.
He then calmly gets up and pulls out his pistol.
“That right there is your laptop,” he says, indicating a computer laying on the ground. “This right here is my .45."
After shooting two rounds into the laptop, Jordan tells his daughter she has to reimburse him for the rounds - at about $1.00 each.
“Oh yeah and after that comment you made about your mom, your mom told me to be sure I put one in there for her,” he said after shooting the laptop six times. “So…that one’s from her.”
After emptying the magazine into the laptop, he said his daughter can have a new one when she's no longer grounded - "whatever year that happens to be" - provided she pays for it herself and reimburses him for the $135 he spent on software fixing the laptop.
An article posted Friday at The Blaze noted:
The video, entitled “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen,” has reached viral status. It has been viewed over 1.5 million times since being posted two days ago.
According to Mashable, Jordan appears to run a company called Twisted Networx. However, he would not respond to Mashable’s request for comment.
“Today was probably the most disappointing day of my life as a father and I don’t know how to correct the situation,” Jordan writes on his own Facebook page. “Since I can’t seem to make any headway with my daughter on Facebook, I chose instead to remedy the problem permanently.”
The comment has so far received over 17,700 "likes" and has been shared 8,325 times.
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