A father who taught his disgruntled teenage daughtera very public lesson after she complained about her chores on Facebook has spoken out for the first time since his video went viral.
Tommy Jordan, of Albemarle, North Carolina, filmed himself shooting his 15-year-old daughter Hannah's laptop and published it on her Facebook page after she moaned about her parents.
Now the IT worker, who has receiveda mixture of praise and derision for his tough parenting, has responded to calls for interviews by releasinga statement on his own social networking page.
Scroll down for video and Tommy Jordan's full statement
In the long written response, he says he refuses to talk to the media as he believes benefiting from the ordeal would send the wrong message to his teen daughter.
He writes: "There's absolutely NO way I'm going to send my child the message that it's OK to gain from something like this.
"It would send hera message that it's OK to profit at the expense of someone else's embarrassment or misfortune and that's now howI was raised, nor how she has been raised."
Mr Jordan also lifts the lid on his daughter's reaction when she discovered the video, calling it "a horrible day in her life". He said that she "had her crying fit, then got over it, accepted her punishment, and hasn't let it (or people's comments) destroy her strength". He added that they had read through comments from viewers together and have been able to joke about the incident.
Mr Jordan also revealed how he discovered his daughter's scathing post- denying that he had been snooping through her account.
"IfI did something embarrassing to my parents in public (such asa grocery store)I got my tail tore up right there in front of God and everyone, right there in the store," he said. "I put the reprisal in exactly the same medium she did, in the exact same manner."
He added that the stunt was intended to show her that she cannot take possessions and her parents money for granted, claiming the video had been "very effective".
It had reminded her that whatever she writes on Facebook or other social networking sites will be there to haunt her in years to come, he added.
The video, in which Mr Jordan reads his daughter's post to the camera and responds to her complaints before shooting her laptop, went viral earlier this week.
He begins by reading out his daughter's post froma computer print-out, explaining "since you want to hide it from everyone, I'm going to share it with everybody". Mr Jordan mocks his daughter for thinking her parents would not be able to see the post because of her Facebook privacy settings, ignoring the fact that he works in IT fora living.
In the post, Hannah says she should be paid for the chores she does around the home and attacks her parents for overworking her.
Then after about seven minutes addressing the camera to berate Hannah, he stands up and blows holes through the laptop. "That right there is your laptop", he says ina YouTube video, pointinga camera ata computer lying ina patch of dirt on the ground.
"This right here is my .45," he says, movinga pistol into the frame. He cocks the weapon and shoots nine rounds into the laptop. The video entitled "Facebook Parenting: For the Troubled Teen" is dedicated to his rebellious daughter.
It's also aimed at "all her friends on Facebook who thought that her little rebellious post was cute, and for all you parents out there who think your, you know, kids don't post bad things on Facebook".
He rounds off by saying: "Oh yeah and after that comment you made about your mom, your mom told me to be sureI put one in there for her. So...that one's from her."
"Maybea few kids can take something away from this," Mr Jordan writes in the video description.
"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 gettinga dose of tough love."
He said he found her hidden Facebook post while upgrading her computer. He completes his lesson by saying: "You can havea new laptop when you buya new laptop and when you pay me back the $130 for the softwareI spent on yours.
"I hope you've enjoyed your little fiasco on Facebook.I hope it was worth all this." The video has been watched around 1.5million times since it was posted just two days ago.
Mr Jordan has since written on Facebook that the attention has helped him and his daughter "deal with it" and insisted Hannah is fine, saying they both laughed about the video going viral.
But he admitted: "I'll agree that wasn'ta good example of me asa father.I had been reading that post again and again for about an hour, sometimes in tears, other times so mad my hands were shaking.
"I was trying very hard to be civil in my message," Mr Jordan said, reported Fox News. "I slipped in that and saida wordI shouldn't have.I deservea little backlash for that, no doubt."
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Tommy Jordan, of Albemarle, North Carolina, filmed himself shooting his 15-year-old daughter Hannah's laptop and published it on her Facebook page after she moaned about her parents.
Now the IT worker, who has receiveda mixture of praise and derision for his tough parenting, has responded to calls for interviews by releasinga statement on his own social networking page.
Scroll down for video and Tommy Jordan's full statement
In the long written response, he says he refuses to talk to the media as he believes benefiting from the ordeal would send the wrong message to his teen daughter.
He writes: "There's absolutely NO way I'm going to send my child the message that it's OK to gain from something like this.
"It would send hera message that it's OK to profit at the expense of someone else's embarrassment or misfortune and that's now howI was raised, nor how she has been raised."
Mr Jordan also lifts the lid on his daughter's reaction when she discovered the video, calling it "a horrible day in her life". He said that she "had her crying fit, then got over it, accepted her punishment, and hasn't let it (or people's comments) destroy her strength". He added that they had read through comments from viewers together and have been able to joke about the incident.
Mr Jordan also revealed how he discovered his daughter's scathing post- denying that he had been snooping through her account.
"IfI did something embarrassing to my parents in public (such asa grocery store)I got my tail tore up right there in front of God and everyone, right there in the store," he said. "I put the reprisal in exactly the same medium she did, in the exact same manner."
He added that the stunt was intended to show her that she cannot take possessions and her parents money for granted, claiming the video had been "very effective".
It had reminded her that whatever she writes on Facebook or other social networking sites will be there to haunt her in years to come, he added.
The video, in which Mr Jordan reads his daughter's post to the camera and responds to her complaints before shooting her laptop, went viral earlier this week.
He begins by reading out his daughter's post froma computer print-out, explaining "since you want to hide it from everyone, I'm going to share it with everybody". Mr Jordan mocks his daughter for thinking her parents would not be able to see the post because of her Facebook privacy settings, ignoring the fact that he works in IT fora living.
In the post, Hannah says she should be paid for the chores she does around the home and attacks her parents for overworking her.
Then after about seven minutes addressing the camera to berate Hannah, he stands up and blows holes through the laptop. "That right there is your laptop", he says ina YouTube video, pointinga camera ata computer lying ina patch of dirt on the ground.
"This right here is my .45," he says, movinga pistol into the frame. He cocks the weapon and shoots nine rounds into the laptop. The video entitled "Facebook Parenting: For the Troubled Teen" is dedicated to his rebellious daughter.
It's also aimed at "all her friends on Facebook who thought that her little rebellious post was cute, and for all you parents out there who think your, you know, kids don't post bad things on Facebook".
He rounds off by saying: "Oh yeah and after that comment you made about your mom, your mom told me to be sureI put one in there for her. So...that one's from her."
"Maybea few kids can take something away from this," Mr Jordan writes in the video description.
"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 gettinga dose of tough love."
He said he found her hidden Facebook post while upgrading her computer. He completes his lesson by saying: "You can havea new laptop when you buya new laptop and when you pay me back the $130 for the softwareI spent on yours.
"I hope you've enjoyed your little fiasco on Facebook.I hope it was worth all this." The video has been watched around 1.5million times since it was posted just two days ago.
Mr Jordan has since written on Facebook that the attention has helped him and his daughter "deal with it" and insisted Hannah is fine, saying they both laughed about the video going viral.
But he admitted: "I'll agree that wasn'ta good example of me asa father.I had been reading that post again and again for about an hour, sometimes in tears, other times so mad my hands were shaking.
"I was trying very hard to be civil in my message," Mr Jordan said, reported Fox News. "I slipped in that and saida wordI shouldn't have.I deservea little backlash for that, no doubt."
See video here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099958/Dad-shot-daughters-laptop-Facebook-post-wont-let-family-gain-new-fame.html?ITO=1490
Shared via News360 for Windows Phone 7. Learn more at http://news360app.com.
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