I found this bizarre, hilarious video on Jezebel today of a man who shoots his daughter's laptop for posting a an angry rant against him on Facebook. "Dear Parents," it goes, "I'm not your damn slave. I'm not here to clean up your shit. We have a cleaning lady for a reason. Her name is Linda, not Hannah....You tell me at least once a day that I need to get a job. Well, you could just pay me for all the shit I do around the house..I have no idea how I have a life. I can't wait to see the day when you get too old to wipe your ass  and you call me asking for help. I won't be there."

Damn!

Sounds like pretty typical bratty kid stuff to me, but it pissed Tommy Jordan (that's the dad's name) the hell off. After reading the letter, he proceeds to address some of the points it raises. First, "we have a lady that cleans the house for us as a favor to trade off some services. She is not, and you will never againr refer to her as, the cleaning lady. That lady works harder in one day than you ever have in your life." According to Tommy, Hannah's only chores are to "sweep the living room and kitchen floor," a three-minute job, wipe the counter tops, which takes about a minute, empty or fill the dishwasher, do her own laundry, not his, and make her own bed, not his. Prety reasonable, if you ask me. He is mad that he had just spent the previous day fixing her laptop (he's an IT guy). "I don't know how to say how diassapointed I am in you," he admits. So he shows it by taking out a gun and shooting her laptop nine times!

As a New Yorker, this kind of behavior is very weird to me. My parents hate guns, and none of my friends' parents growing up owned guns. If my parents had found something like this on my Facebook, I could imagine them cursing at me, yelling at me, grounding me for about a week, or in my mom's case, possibly crying and storming out of the house. More likely than not, they would have told me to stop being a baby, been mad and passive-aggressive for a few days, and then forgotten about it. Even if they had a gun, they definitely wouldn't have shot my laptop. I don't think there was much I could have said, short of "I hate you," that would have upset them on such a fundamental level. Maybe my sister and I have gotten away with too much, but I think we're both pretty good people. 

On the one hand, Tommy Jones' reaction seems way overboard. I mean, is this really going to help? Is his daughter going to learn her lesson, or become resentful and even more insolent? On the other, I see his point. I especially like how he made it clear that just because they have a lady who sometimes cleans their house, Hannah isn't free of responsibility. Growing up, I heard more kids complain about "the cleaning lady" putting their shoes in the wrong place than I would care to remember.  Good for him for setting her straight. 

I agree with the Jezebel commenter who said, "Looks like my Electra complex is coming to a head, because there's something very attractive about this guy." I have to admit, I've always had a thing for "manly-men" like this (at least to an extent). I just wouldn't want to be raised by one. Thanks, mom and dad, for not shooting my shit!