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Father Shoots His Daughter’s Laptop For Posting a
Mean Comment About Him on Facebook

A North Carolina man was none his life was growing up, and he decided who you plan to vote for,
too pleased with one of his daugh- seems particularly frustrated by you may not want the world to
ter Hannah’s Facebook posts. his daughter’s disrespect and tells know about it. Well it appears that
So instead of just telling her, he her that he is disappointed. At the it may be too late for Facebook CEO
decided to tell the world exactly end of the video, Jordan tells his Mark Zuckerberg to keep his politi-
how he felt in a YouTube video. daughter that she can have a new cal “likes” to himself. Wednesday
(Warning: This video contains laptop when she buys a new laptop night, Zuckerberg “liked” a post by
strong language and content.) Af- Slate.com’s tech columnist Farhad
ter already grounding Hannah for One person wrote, “Can Manjoo. The post read, “Try, just
three months for what he refers to I shake your hand and try looking at the Romney logo
as a similar incident in the past, without seeing the word MONEY”
Tommy Jordan decided to take his buy you a beer?” with a link to MittRomney.com.
disciplinary action to a whole new, Due to what some perceive as a
more public level. after she repays him for the new flaw in Facebook’s design, a part
software he had just downloaded. of the field was omitted. So instead
Jordan uploaded a video of himself He later posted the video to his of showing that Zuckerberg “liked”
sitting in a lawn chair reading own Facebook profile as well as Manjoo’s status, it appeared that
aloud his 15-year-old daughter’s his daughter’s, and it is blowing he was indeed endorsing Romney
post and then shooting nine hol- up on the Internet. The video for president. It did not take long
low-point rounds into her comput- has received more than 650 com- for hundreds of Zuckerberg’s
er with his .45-caliber gun. Jordan, ments, 1,300 “likes,” and 800,000 11.4 million subscribers to begin
who is an IT consultant, says he views on YouTube. Most people commenting. Several people were
discovered his daughter’s post as are applauding Jordan’s approach very critical, with one person writ-
he was upgrading her laptop with to extreme parenting. One person ing, “Shouldn’t you be apolitical
new software. In what Hannah wrote, “Can I shake your hand Mark?” While another stood up for
apparently thought was a private and buy you a beer?” and another Zuckerberg and wrote, “Mark is
post titled, “To My Parents,” us- person on Facebook commented, making fun of Romney, not endors-
ing profanity-laced language, she “loved your parenting technique.” ing him.” Zuckerberg took down
complains of all of the chores she the notification, but still “liked”
has to do and says she ought to get Staying in the world of Facebook, Manjoo’s post. As for who he’s en-
paid for it. She further complains let’s turn to politics and that good dorsing for the White House, that
about having to balance her school ol’ “like” button. Turn on any tele- is still unclear.
work and all her chores. In the vision or visit almost any news site
eight-minute video titled “Face- and you are bound to hear about
book Parenting: For the Troubled the upcoming 2012 presidential
Teen,” Jordan explains how hard election. Even if you have already
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