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2012-02-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Dad uses facebook and Model-1911 to make point.

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-02-11 04:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I guess his point was that a laptop doesn't hold up well against gunfire.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-11 05:30|| 2012-02-11 05:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Punish the ungrateful whelp, sure. What he did, stupid.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2012-02-11 05:40|| 2012-02-11 05:40|| Front Page Top

#3 That's a good dad, cares about his daughter. I bet she got the point!

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2012-02-11 06:43|| 2012-02-11 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 She is lucky.

Mom, Dad + stepmom, teenagerish. About the 'help', inexcusable. I am only five years in and if I find myself sitting, I have forgotten to do something and still put smiles on my kids faces after a 9-5. Dad was right, itsa good dad. Seriously, by the time she gets out and then checks her status, that will be waiting. Pleases and thank you's.

Personally, I would have grabbed the hooligan tool. No, don't correct my accent on this one.

http://firesafetyusa.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=144

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-02-11 08:59|| 2012-02-11 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Would have worked better if he'd shown the laptop on to that post his daughter made. As is I got the impression he had a dead laptop (he is an IT guy after all) and shot it, saying it was hers.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-02-11 09:59|| 2012-02-11 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 He said it was HER laptop, then he destroyed it. Is that legal, even if she is your kid, and deserves it?

Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-11 10:54|| 2012-02-11 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Who bought it, Glenmore?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-11 11:47|| 2012-02-11 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't matter who bought it once it's given to her and called HERS. Now the internet connection was almost certainly not her own and probably should have been shut off a long time ago. Depending on local laws and just how her father accessed her Facebook account he might be on the wrong side of the law there too (IANAL) - though if so, that doesn't make the law right, it just makes it the law.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-11 12:00|| 2012-02-11 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Is that legal

Yes, as long as she is legally a minor*. While the ACLU may claim children have adult 'rights' [but strangely should never suffer 'adult' punishments for crimes committed and convicted], they are treated as a separate class from adults by the legal system. Now children are covered by 'human' rights which should not be confused with 'civil' rights. They may overlap at times, but its a bit of Three Card Monty when advocates start playing the linguistic game.

Now as to discharging a firearm in town or metro area, that might be a separate issue. That's how things like this usually are handled.

* Courts have processed appeals of emancipation by minors who seek independence from their parents. Then the kid is usually responsible to show that they can support themselves without the parents or the state providing resources. Not to be confused with various Congressional actions to extend dependent adult childhood to 23+ [see:Obamacare].

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-02-11 12:06|| 2012-02-11 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Good for Daddy, a bit extreme, but good.
My daughter's 40 now, whth two children of her own, I NRVER had that Crap to put up with.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2012-02-11 12:11|| 2012-02-11 12:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Then let her produce a copy of the receipt with signed-over ownership.

Is it her room? Her car?

And if farcebook can be loaded up by sum gn'tottn' hat wrn' no care for no gn'shootn' law duude, then maybe there is no such thing as right of privacy - or ownership of material - on that deal.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-02-11 14:45|| 2012-02-11 14:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Need more MEN like him around this country. That's one family the Nanny-state hasn't taken!

Posted by Charles 2012-02-11 15:44|| 2012-02-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Noobs.

Here's the way to go:

Saiga 12. There are lots of others like it in the "Alley Cleaner" class. Some with shorter barrels. Try not to drool on it, please.

Posted by gorb 2012-02-11 18:56|| 2012-02-11 18:56|| Front Page Top

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