All I can think, and I admit I have not watched the video . . . the man annoys me for some reason . . . is that one thing I am sure will not happen is that when that girl is 30, she will not say to her Dad, with a laugh as they sit around the dinner table at Thanksgiving: "Hey, remember the time you shot my laptop because I bad mouthed you?"
Well, to be fair, I doubt he will ever be laughing about the time she called him lazy and told him to get up off his @$$.
I think the worst part would be the public humiliation, but that wasn't his idea, and I don't think his intent. She took it online, and he responded online. I doubt he thought it would get quite as popular as it did.
I don't have a laptop, and I'm in college. I also didn't have a laptop for a good deal of time during high school. So, I can't really sympathize with her on that point. No laptop? Lade****ingda.
EDIT: I would never do this to my kid, but I can understand why the dad did it. This wasn't the first time she had badmouthed her family online, and she had been grounded for it before (so it wasn't like he shot the laptop on the first offense. she had been doing this, and he had been disciplining her in other ways, and she hadn't changed), she was rude about "the cleaning lady", and he had not only bought the laptop for her, but had just installed $130 worth of stuff on there.
I mean, if my dad gave me $130 and the next day I called him lazy, and said he worked me like a slave, and did this all in a very public way... Well, my dad would have hit me, but he would have yelled at me.
I can't be certain, because I can't watch it right now, but I noticed that he calls her out on her behavior, not her character. He says she did something stupid and childish, not that she is stupid and childish. It would have driven me crazy if I had noticed him berating her.
And I honestly think she will recover. My family has been through insane ****, where I have been on the receiving end of much worse than a lost laptop. My parents and I maintain a good relationship.