…..or a chainsaw!!!!

Real cool Anthony, reversing the car over it or putting it in the microwave is not a bad idea either.

Picture Joe Sixtwo (AKA Jack Torrance) wielding an axe;

Here’e Joe Sixtwo!

All the metal in the laptop would destroy a chainsaw chain.

@Gerard ……. Hi Honey I’m home where’s the laptop?

That’s brilliant hahaha

Brilliant!

we’ll send you over to him and you can teach him how to shoot properly…. go on I dare ya to tell him to his face! ;-)

I might have mentioned it to him on his facebook page :P

Ha! Excellent!

Mark we obviously don’t share the same sense if humour… I won’t class this as a funny video. Each to his own opinion and personal reaction.

Each to their own Susan, but I can’t help but wonder if there’s a correlation between the amount of familiarity with actual firearms safety issues and the degree to which this video is considered humorous…

Possibly true….. If this happened in any part of Ireland, I seriously would find it hard to believe that the “general” reaction wld be one of “that’s funny”. But familiarity desensitises!!!

No, it informs. Those who don’t know much about firearms tend to be worried about the wrong things, and at times don’t worry enough about other things and tend to scare the bejaysus out of those of us who do shoot a lot. It’s like driving – people who start learning to drive are often scared of things ordinary drivers don’t blink at, like oncoming traffic in the other lane on the road; but they often do things that scare the daylights out of drivers, like putting the car right over into the ditch to stay away from that oncoming traffic.

14. He happened to press play and was disgusted by the lyrics. if threatened to put a hammer through it!! He didn’t in the end, but he was still pretty irked. Not long after though, I stopped listening to hippety hop after I found the awesomeness of punk rock and metal music. :P

A cassette

Yep. That’s right. A cassette.

You know Brian, sometimes it’s nice just to to enjoy a bit of “light relief”. I find this amusing, I personally wouldn’t do it myself but it’s amusing…………..the mind doesn’t boggle at all.

Hey Anthony I’m all for light relief but this video and peoples reactions to it are totally confusing.
On one hand people praise this guy for showing his 15 year old daughter that the best way to solve things is some good old gunfire. Ye ha! Maybe she will take his advice and the next time the spoiled brat gets pissed off with her parents, instead of posting a rant on Facebook , she’ll put a few .45 rounds into her parents!
On the other hand we have a massive out cry over a young girl getting shot in Dublin be people who think that the best way to solve their problems is by using a gun.

There is no doubt that that girl needed o good lesson in life and if the guy rolled over it in a car or something then yeah I could go with that. However in a country like the US that has so much gun crime was this really a well advised video? I used to own guns myself and have an interest in all things military so it’s not like I’m saying that guns should be outlawed. What I am saying is that with gun ownership comes responsibility and common sense. Children get a large part of their values from their parents so that is where I’m coming from.

Here is what he posted 6 hours ago on hie Facbook page…..
“The police by the way said “Kudos, Sir” and most of them made their kids watch it. I actually had a “thank you” from an entire detectives squad. And another police officer is using it in a positive manner in his presentation for the school system.” Do you think that the Gardai should go around every secondary school in Ireland and show this “amusing ” video?

One last thing, he also posted “She wants a 22 rifle like mine.” If I were him I’d start investing in a good Kevlar jacket and a reinforced bedroom door! Have a nice yawl!

@Brian, I can totally appreciate where you are coming from, and discussed this last night with someone on Facebook. As far as leading by example goes its not the best.. It shows that daddy is a tad impulsive and may be where the daughter gets her impulsivity from!
At the same time, for all we know the daughter might be a really ungrateful little madam.. It’s not outside the realm of possibility (and again, may be due to parenting)

But on face value it’s funny, and may serve as a deterrent to other teens!!

@Brian, if he’d done it with a hammer would you object as much or is the problem the gun? You have to remember that there is a HUGE gun culture in America. That’s not an excuse, merely a fact of life.

Thomas maybe I didn’t make my self clear. I have no problem with guns, I owned 2 of them myself and wanted to buy a handgun but the Government and Gardai started imposing ridiculous conditions on gun ownership so that put paid to that. I thought that when I said that there is so much gun crime in America that it would also be taken that there is also a huge gun culture as well but i was obviously not clear enough on that. Obviously there is a huge gun culture in the US, I mean where else can you buy a Serbu BFG-50A .50 cal rifle for $6795.00 (shipping included).

I started shooting when I was 16 and the first thing I was taught was gun safety, safety, safety. What I was not taught was that every time I get pissed off with something or someone that it was alright to fire off a few rounds at the other persons possessions. If this was the case my sisters bedroom would have looked like it had been hit be a Hellfire missile followed up by a couple of thousand rounds from a mini-gun!

Think about it . This girl has publicly been humiliated in front of 12 million people ( even though she did deserve to be reprimanded) has been interviewed by the police and child Protection services. She has had abuse written about her all over the internet and told that she will end up a stripper! On top of that you have a bunch of morons posting “responses” on YouTube saying how they thought that yer man is right while the posters are waving guns around the place saying that they are going to follow his lead with their own kids!! I don’t have a problem with the gun so much as the idiot holding the gun. I hope that clears things up for you a bit.

You’re right Brian. If it’s funny at all it’s because he’s such a total gobshite. What an idiot!

*him

I wish the Journal had an edit function…

agreed Peter; Daddy sounds like he wants his 14yrold daughter to appreciate his childhood difficulties (and that’s NEVER possible) which is very immature of him.

I went to college whilst bringing up 2 teens on my own (not by my choice BTW) and worked part-time as well……… But I wouldn’t WANT or expect my (now grown up) children to live that way. (or even to understand the stress I was under)

I was a (looking back, sometimes too much) strict parent – but I would NEVER have gone this far. It’s too much. And as so many other commentators have mentioned; using a gun to make a point is not the best way of doing it!!!

Susan, it’s North Carolina. The teenager probably has pistols of her own :D
If it was Ireland, it’d be a different story (he’d be in jail for shooting a pistol outside of an authorised target shooting range). But when in Rome…

Mark…… Ur assumption that all school kids in the USA hold pistols is completely unfounded. Violence using a firearm is a sick way for any parent, despite what the “culture” is in his country to ” reprimand “their children for misbehaving. That man is not an ideal role model for any child. Hopefully his disciplinary methods don’t entend to ” living” things.

Actually Susan, my assumption was that this was North Carolina, where gun ownership figures are far, far, far, far, far higher than here, and firearms are just as unusual an object to find in a home as a power drill.

And frankly, nobody’s suggesting he be treated as a role model; it’s a funny video. The police in the area have been out in response to it, they found there was nothing in the home that was dangerous or unacceptable (by North Carolina standards, where, again, firearms are a lot more commonplace than here).

So nobody got hurt, the police have investigated and are satisfied, and we all had a laugh. Not seeing the downside so far…

But as he points out himself, that wasn’t what he was doing as a teenager. The “teenager” is an American creation of the 50′s that seems to mean you can do anything you want and say “it’s my hormones”!! It’s why we have near feral kids running around. And before anyone says it, I was no angel of a young fella and my parents worked hard on me and didn’t just make excuses that “he’s just being a teen”.

It’s part of the job description of a 15-year-old to be lazy and stroppy and think their parents are awful. True.

However, it’s part of the job description of the parents to keep them on the straight and narrow despite the fun and games their neurochemistry is causing, so that in 20 years, they aren’t still regretting that facial tattoo, or that teenage pregnancy, or that addiction to cocaine. And if destroying the laptop and embarrassing them publicly is what’s called for, guess what – that’s why the word is “parent” and not “friend”.

Me, I’m thinking that back when I was 15, I didn’t have a laptop. Or an ipod. Or for that matter, anything near to the amount of material goods this girl has. It’s not like he was keeping her starving in the basement or beating her.

@Audrey – The article doesn’t say he snooped! It just says the daughter clearly hadn’t anticipated that he would be able to see her posts. The text was only intended to be a brief introduction and wasn’t meant to be considered comprehensive.

Why would anyone here bother going to the facebook page of some Joe from North Carolina. There are a lot of retired people using this website.

Yup she is totally o.k to give out bout her parent. She’s been asked to brush d floor, clean the work tops and put the cups in the dishwasher ahem dishwasher, oh an god luv her to put her clothes in d AUTOMATIC washing machine, this man is a legend in my book, we should all follow his lead ;-)

Good girl Sineád,

Theres always one !!

Police called, police came out and investigated, police found nothing untowardly dangerous, congratulated father, asked to show video in schools to other teenagers.

Does it REALLY matter…..really?….its not a piece of vital news. Besides, on the video he didn’t mention anything about the dogs facebook page he just talks about uprgrading the laptop.

These kinds of thing are constantly happening on the journal. There is no excuse for bad journalism. If in doubt leave it out. They should be sure of the facts before they post the story. It seems that no one checks the authors story before it goes out.