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For those that wondered, commented, criticized, and just in general wanted to know:
My daughter came through it fine.

Yes, she's in trouble, and yes she's grounded, but that doesn't mean every moment of her life has to be miserable. She's going to come to terms with the changes that will be present for a while; no TV privileges, no Internet, etc.

In the meantime, once the initial anger passed, she sat with me reviewing some of the comments that have come in via Facebook and YouTube. One person even suggested collecting the shell casings and auctioning them on eBay. I said I’d do it if it would help contribute to her college fund! When I told her about it, she thought a minute, got a funny calculating expression on her face and said, “in that case you should shoot my phone too. We can use more bullets and I’ll go half-sies with ya on it! It’s not like I’m going to need it any time soon. And I can use the money we get to buy a new one.”

While the whole point of this story isn’t funny, what is funny to me is how weak some people out there think kids are. Our kids are as strong as we help them to be. My daughter took a horrible day in her life, had her crying fit, then got over it, accepted her punishment, and hasn’t let it (or people’s comments) destroy her strength. I don’t get any credit for that. She’s strong and able to overcome almost anything life throws at her.

Since this unsuspectingly threw her into the limelight much more strongly than either of us intended, I asked her if she wanted to make her own response video, and told her I’d let her do it if she wanted to. She doesn’t like being in front of the camera, so she declined, but I’ve told her if she wants to write a response or post a video response, I’d be OK with it. It’s only fair considering the viral nature of the whole thing. So far she’s not really interested. Quite frankly it seems she’s gotten bored of it much faster than the general public has. If that changes I’ll post it here.

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Op 10-02-2012 08:44 schreef RecomServ het volgende
Wauw .... een Hilbilly Farmer die verstand heeft van ICT ... Tijd van de nieuwe media, tijd van nieuwe represailles! ... Ik mag deze vent wel

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Op 10-02-2012 13:18 schreef Civilian het volgende
Geen keylogger trouwens:
http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii/posts/10150522719970846

Maar de Facebook van hun hond waar de post op stond :\')

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Op 10-02-2012 15:58 schreef Glijdt_licht het volgende
Hmm opzich eens, maar hij had die laptop gewoon moeten verkopen ipv vernielen.

Door dit ding te vernielen leert hij zijn dochter dat het blijkbaar redelijk is het bezit van een ander te vernielen als het gedrag van de ander je niet aanstaat.