Mom shoots kids iphones to bits!!!

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  1. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Man, this woman has great aim! Makes me feel embarrassed. I got a LOT of practicing to do. She makes it look so easy, and from pretty far away too! It is kind of funny to see that little brown dog wandering around all over the place, he seems so curious. :smile:

    Southern mom shoots her disobedient children's iPhones | Daily Mail Online

    I guess she must have about had it. She could have just sold the phones on ebay, but I guess that would not have the same effect.
     
  2. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    I've never been a fan of destroying expensive consumer goods to prove a point to kids. I think it indirectly reinforces in them the concept of a disposable economy. "Oh, we're done with your iPhone, so now we destroy it or throw it away."

    When I was a kid my father took away my toy firetruck because I repeatedly left it on the floor near the front door and he kept stepping on it when he came home. He made me get in the car holding said firetruck while telling me we were getting rid of it. Then he drove me to the Goodwill and ordered me to go put it in the donation box. I was pretty upset and pleaded for clemency, which he granted at the last minute. I never left the firetruck out again.

    Even if I had, my punishment would have been to then put it into the donation box. So, at a minimum, some kid would have been able to enjoy it after me. But then again, it would have made a much better YouTube video (if such a thing had existed at the time) if my father, clad in his NYPD uniform, used it for target practice.
     
  3. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member


    Good man. I agree. Heck, I would have liked to have one of those cell phones. I still have an old school LG neon.
     
  4. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    My kids don't have phones, so I don't have this problem. I know, I'm sure they'll all need therapy.
     
  5. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Wow! No phones, and yet the manage to survive somehow! I think that's great.
     
  6. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    With all due respect to the Second Amendment, guns are not general-use problem-solving devices, especially when children are involved. Abner's Dad recognized this - he wisely never threatened to "bust a cap" in his son's toy truck! From here, across the border, this iPhone story looks positively other-worldly!

    J.

    PS - If you need to, you take things away. You don't break them - especially if they cost hundreds of dollars. And shoot them? I'm still shaking my head. Beyond my comprehension, even after 73 years.
     
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  7. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    If necessary to prove a point, I just take my children's phones away and lock them in my gun safe. When the underlying problem is corrected (bad grades, laziness, etc.), they're returned in one piece.
     
  8. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Now that's reasonable! In 1952, long before kids had phones, I lost a harmonica that way, for a while. Now that meant something to me, and I did what was expected, to earn it back. Harmonica-playing still means a lot to me. The experience has stayed with me all those years.

    J.
     
  9. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    I would think there would be a "nanny app" for this kind of thing, one where the parents could shut off the kids' phones remotely, or control the time-of-day or overall usage.
     
  10. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    There probably is, but I'm like a caveman banging rocks together with my iPhone. My kids think it's hilarious that I have maybe 4 apps that didn't come with the phone, and no desire to add more.

    Technologically advanced, I'm not.
     
  11. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    you know what it is? It's lazy or frustrated parenting.

    Shooting a phone: easy.
    Parenting teens: hard.
    Shooting a phone and then posting it on the internet so you can get folks to rally around you and make you feel better about yourself: desperate.

    This mom has her hands full. I'm guessing social media isn't the real problem.


    EDIT: I want to add that sometimes I'm feeling lazy- I have 4 teenage sons. Sometimes it's easier just to unplug the internet or change the Netflix password ;) Problem solved, I take a bath, and in the morning when I've had my coffee I have the brainspace to deal with whatever it was.
     
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