Quote: (08-01-2012 10:42 AM)Tuthmosis Wrote:You know the guy took the hard drive out before emptying a clip into it right? Also, it wasn't the first time she pulled that shit on facebook. Yeah, it may have been one of her most prized possessions, but who bought it? It was extreme and not something I would have done, but I still applaud him.
Quote: (07-31-2012 10:47 PM)Fisto Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2012 07:53 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
Old-school problems, meet old-school solutions.
Tuth, I'm curious to know how you can endorse this action when earlier this year you condemned that dad that shot his daughter's laptop.
Just wanting to know the thinking since it appears to be inconsistent.
Totally different situations. This guy was responding to battery with an equal amount of battery. This woman thought she could attack that man (even setting aside, for a second, that he's also a cop) without any repercussions.
That laptop bully was going absolutely hysterical on camera, simultaneously destroying what was surely one of that girl's most valuable possessions and humiliating her publicly. Not only that, he was deliberately using a graphic form of violence--guns--to further drill home his point. His was a matter of pride and bad parenting, this is a matter of checking a hysterical woman crossing the line. This cop was controlled and surgical.
If he'd punched her several times, knocked her to the floor, and kicked her, then they'd be comparable (at least in the sense of massive overreaction and lack of control).
Personally I would have taken the computer apart and left the pieces scattered around her room. Want your computer back? Put it back together.
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