The tech-savvy, gun-toting father who blasted nine hollow-point rounds into his daughter's laptop after she wrote a disrespectful Facebook post is dealing with his newfound notoriety much the same way he handled the girl's rant: publicly and proactively. If you haven't seen the now-viral video, here's what happened: Tommy Jordan of North Carolina has a 15-year-old daughter who posted an indignant note to Facebook in which she complained about and harshly criticized her parents for forcing her do too many chores around the house and generally making her life a hassle.
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She thought she'd hid it from her parents using privacy settings, but her father works in IT and found the note anyway, he said, when he was uploading photos to the family dog's profile page. (She didn't think to hide it from the dog.) So he decided to reprimand her publicly, saying in the video that ?since you want to hide it from everyone, I?m going to share it with everybody.?
He posted an eight-minute video to YouTube on Wednesday, refuting her key points and reading the entire note aloud while smoking a cigarette and sitting in a wooden chair in a grassy field. After about seven minutes of preamble, he gets up, points the camera at a laptop on the ground, introduces a pistol into the frame -- ?This right here is my .45" -- and blasts away.
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Not surprisingly, the video took off. When Mashable wrote about it the day after it was posted, it had just over 5,000 YouTube views. Now it has 15 million.
According to Facebook posts by Jordan, he has since received more media inquiries than he can handle, sponsorship requests, and a deluge of both hateful and supportive messages from people eager to provide feedback on his parenting methods.
Jordan addressed the laptop shooting and subsequent hullaballoo in a recent Facebook post that begins, "Attention Media Outlets:"
While we appreciate the interest you?re all putting forth to get in touch with us regarding the video, we?re not going to go on your talk show, not going to call in to your radio show, and not going to be in your TV miniseries.
Some of you think I made an acceptable parenting decision, and others think I didn?t. However, I can?t think of any way myself or my daughter can respond to a media outlet that won?t be twisted out of context. The Dallas news TV news already showed that in their brief five-minute interview with the psychologist.
Jordan goes on to say that exploiting the media glare would send his daughter the wrong message "that it's OK to profit at the expense of someone else's embarrassment or misfortune, and that's not how I was raised, nor how she has been raised." Jordan says in the post that he will make any further comments through his Facebook page, not through the media. "My daughter isn?t hurt, emotionally scarred, or otherwise damaged," he writes, "but that kind of publicity has never seemed to be to have a positive effect on any child or family."
In subsequent posts, Jordan sheds more light on the zoo his life has become, further explains the reasoning behind his laptop assassination, solicits funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and promotes a social selling website he's been helping to build. Many of his posts have received well over a thousand comments.
Here, in the gallery below, are several snippets of what Tommy Jordan has had to say over the past couple days. For the full versions, head on over to his Facebook page.
What do you think about this video going viral and Jordan's following response? Let us know in the comments.
1. "Never again..."
In a post from Friday, Jordan says he was unprepared for the attention the video attracted.
Click here to view this gallery. This story originally published on Mashable here.
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