Father Teaches Daughter Lesson About Facebook

[blas87]

I don't think my parents have read/heard of this yet, by some miracle.

I don't think it would surprise any of you to know that any time my parents caught me doing anything remotely out of their idea of "acceptable", I was punished under the full extent of their law, and I was often humiliated in the process to teach me a "lesson" in respect.

It took me a long time to gain respect for either one of them, because of how they treated me as a teen. Sure, their hardass, ground-you-for-anything little kid curfew may have helped mold me into who I am today, but damn if it wasn't the hardest years of my life!

It wasn't that it was too "hard" growing up with school and work, as I said before, I think that's a must, but my mother especially DEMANDED I get A's in school, if not at least Bs. Anything lower in ANY case meant immediate grounding. Immediate. And I would not be off grounding until that grade improved. But, I needed my own money, because my parents refused to pay for certain things anymore now that I was old enough for a job. So I had to balance out work and school. Ok, a good idea, but teachers in every class assigning homework and then working till 11:00 at night? No way.

[Greenday]

Wait... DAD was shocked that a married couple was having sex in their bedroom?

(He's a dad, after all... maybe in his family people only ever did that in the kitchen?)

Probably more shocked that it was done in visible sight, however tough it was to see.

[HYHYBT]

Wait... DAD was shocked that a married couple was having sex in their bedroom?

(He's a dad, after all... maybe in his family people only ever did that in the kitchen?)

[Racket_Man]

In a manner that has no bearing on your argument. You're arguing that something intended to be private isn't private if you jump through this series of hoops and thus cannot be considered private. Using that criteria there is no such thing as privacy.

Its like arguing what you do in your own home can't be considered private because someone could be peering through your blinds.

acutally your last statement does have some legal merit/presidence. I remember seeing a story on a program like 20/20 many years ago that delt with this very subject.

I may be fuzzy on the details but here is what I remember.

at some subdivision there was a "public" (not sure what the exact situation/layout was) access path next to a house. the master bedroom window faced this "path". some kid was walking on the path and heard a noise coming from the house. now the blinds/window coverings were tightly shut BUT the kid managed to peer into the window. a

and what does he spy????? a couple (husband and wife yes married to each other) were having a quite passionate "romantic interlude" in the privacy of their own bedroom.

BOY is horrified and gets his Dad over. DAD is shocked and DAD goes and grabs his video camera and starts filiming the couple though a narrow slit in the window coverings. people see DAD filiming (this is the days of big video cameras not phone or palm sized)

Dad then goes to the cops and gets the couple arrested and chareged with
some sort of public luid and lasivious bahavior.

Couple tried to get the charges dropped because of the "privacy of your own home" and in the fact that the boy and Dad had to actually work really hard to "get the shot". they also tried to get the Dad charged with invasion of privacy and filiming with out consent.

The couple ultimately lost (cops and courts claimed some sort of public behavior thing) but I think Dad was charged with something (do not remember)

NEVER assume what you do in the "privacy" of own home is perfectly private.

[Gravekeeper]

what are the odds that the whole thing was a stunt for publicity? the dad's youtube channel is a series of gun how-to movies and such. maybe the kid was in on it, and the laptop was some non-functioning thing. in this day and age ya never know

Yeah....found the original and it was posted as a parenting how too video. >.>

"Maybe a few kids can take something away from this... 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."

That clears up any doubt that he didn't intend to post the video publically. He's even got a copyright on it and is sending copyright notices to other channels with it. Numbnuts even links his Facebook.

You're right, this is smelling...publicity whorish.

[siead_lietrathua]

what are the odds that the whole thing was a stunt for publicity? the dad's youtube channel is a series of gun how-to movies and such. maybe the kid was in on it, and the laptop was some non-functioning thing. in this day and age ya never know

i found the video friggan hilarions. mostly because i could totally see my dad doing the same thing. and he is a harmless, loving person. but you don't dishoner the family in public.

edit: GK, dont ya know? half of what people do in their homes is illegal in some parts of the states. don't forget sodomy laws mostly include oral sex too /pervmoment

[Gravekeeper]

Because it shows how "private" information isn't private at all.

In a manner that has no bearing on your argument. You're arguing that something intended to be private isn't private if you jump through this series of hoops and thus cannot be considered private. Using that criteria there is no such thing as privacy.

Its like arguing what you do in your own home can't be considered private because someone could be peering through your blinds.

[jackfaire]

Jack...the entire point of the video was that she posted this crap on facebook more than once. You might have missed it, but he said it.

Oh no see I caught it but I also caught that it was an off hand remark. It wasn't the thesis statement of his rant. It wasn't the point he was driving at. The thesis statement was that she is a spoiled brat who needs to be grateful to have it so well so shut up.

I can say "Mr. Boddy is a horrible person" but if I then spend the whole time talking about how shitty his mansion is then the rant is about how shitty his mansion is not whether or not I think he is a horrible person.

[HYHYBT]

Not one of the ways you mentioned could nearly as easily have gotten anyone in trouble.

"Nearly as easily," meaning it's a matter of degree at most, not a categorical difference.

[draco664]

You're assuming, draco, that all parents treat all their children the same.

Oh, I know they don't. I don't treat my daughters the same. One is autistic and needs a different parenting style. I have to make do with trying to ensure they have equal opportunities and equal time with me.

I'm reading a book now about someone who grew up with Asberger's before there was a diagnosis for it. His brother wrote the foreword to the book, and noted that they were brought up by 'different' parents. The elder was brought up by a happy, optimistic couple, and the younger raised by a bitter, downtrodden pair going through divorce and dealing with substance abuse.

But thinking that the way someone turns out is solely (or even mostly) due to the way they were parented, when there are myriad other factors to consider (genetic, medical, social, educational, etc), is simplistic at best.

[draco664]

Saw this, and couldn't resist adding it to the thread.

[AdminAssistant]

You're assuming, draco, that all parents treat all their children the same.

[draco664]

The teen sounded like a spoiled, obnoxious brat, but I am a firm believer that their behaviour as they grow is a reflection of the parenting they have been given.

An interesting hypothesis. And easy to prove or disprove. Are the siblings of every family all alike?

Not in my experience.

Mind you, that attitude seems very prevalent, especially among those who are not parents.

Sorry, but I've seen too many siblings who are complete opposites. Heck, I know a set of identical twins, one of whom is a complete bastard, the other is one of the nicest guys I know.

I think that their behaviour as they grow is more a reflection of the difference between the company they keep outside of the family and then what happens inside it.

[DrFaroohk]

All I can say in closing is that I wish I was a child again, a little ballsier, and ran into this situation myself, and I'm sure dad would get the hint after I showed him I could *always* raise the stakes higher than him. Shoot my laptop for something that's his own damn fault? Hmmm, ok. What was that, dad? Oh wow, the dead body of the bully who terrorizes me happened to wind up in your truck? And the POLICE found it? Sucks to be you. But what do I know, I'm just a spoiled little kid! Thanks daddy!

I am a firm believer than when people abuse their authority and act without reason, they forfeit ALL rights that would normally protect them...from me.

[KnitShoni]

Jack...the entire point of the video was that she posted this crap on facebook more than once. You might have missed it, but he said it.