A North Carolina dad who shot up his teenager’s laptop for trash-talking him on Facebook says he got a visit from authorities but is bragging they didn’t do anything to him.
Tommy Jordan posted a video of his unconventional parenting methods on his 15-year-old daughter Hannah’s Facebook page, which grabbed the attention of Child Protective Services and the police after it went viral.
In a Facebook post yesterday, the former Marine wrote that Child Protective Services officials came to his home in Albemarle, N.C., and interviewed him and his daughter — separately — after receiving several calls from viewers of the video who feared where he might point his gun next. The police also stopped by.
But neither the officers nor Child Protective Services took any action against him, Jordan boasted.
“The police by the way said ‘Kudos, sir,’ ” Jordan wrote. “How’s about those apples? Didn’t expect THAT when you called the cops did you?”
Jordan had been living with Hannah for only a little more than six months before posting his video in response to her Facebook diatribe titled “To My Parents,” which he discovered when he updated her laptop. The video had more than 14 million hits by late yesterday.
Jordan and his wife live about five hours from Jordan’s ex-wife and Hannah’s mother, Michelle Ambrose-Smith. Hannah lived with her mother and took extended visits to her father’s home in the summer and during holidays. In August, Jordan wrote on his blog that he missed his daughter so much that he asked his daughter if she’d like to live with him permanently, and that she had accepted.
“I wonder how many days before she’s screaming to go back to her mom’s?” he mused in a blog post the day after Hannah moved in.
Ambrose-Smith did not respond to requests for comment, and Jordan posted on his Facebook page that he was unplugging his phone for the weekend and did not respond to requests for comment. So there’s no way to know whether Hannah is contemplating a return to her mother.
In her denunciation, Hannah complained about having to do chores.
“I’m not your damn slave,” wrote Hannah, an honor student who plays clarinet. “It’s not my responsibility to clean up your sh*t. We have a cleaning lady for a reason. Her name is Linda, not Hannah.”
In his video, Jordan reads the letter aloud, with a few choice comments of his own.
“Your responsibilities include waking up on time and getting on the bus,” he said. “That’s the end of your responsibilities each day. You don’t have that hard of life — which you’re about to.”
He then demolished the laptop with nine hollow-point bullets fired from a .45 handgun.
In his post yesterday, Jordan wrote that if he could do things differently, he would not have smoked a cigarette in the video (he said he wants to quit) and that he would not have referred to his daughter as an “ass.”
“I’d have worn my Silverbelly Stetson, not my Tilley hat if I’d known that image was going to follow me the rest of my life and I’d probably have cleaned my boots,” he added. “That’s it. I meant all the rest of it.”
Kase.Wickman@thedaily.com
Tommy Jordan posted a video of his unconventional parenting methods on his 15-year-old daughter Hannah’s Facebook page, which grabbed the attention of Child Protective Services and the police after it went viral.
In a Facebook post yesterday, the former Marine wrote that Child Protective Services officials came to his home in Albemarle, N.C., and interviewed him and his daughter — separately — after receiving several calls from viewers of the video who feared where he might point his gun next. The police also stopped by.
But neither the officers nor Child Protective Services took any action against him, Jordan boasted.
“The police by the way said ‘Kudos, sir,’ ” Jordan wrote. “How’s about those apples? Didn’t expect THAT when you called the cops did you?”
Jordan had been living with Hannah for only a little more than six months before posting his video in response to her Facebook diatribe titled “To My Parents,” which he discovered when he updated her laptop. The video had more than 14 million hits by late yesterday.
Jordan and his wife live about five hours from Jordan’s ex-wife and Hannah’s mother, Michelle Ambrose-Smith. Hannah lived with her mother and took extended visits to her father’s home in the summer and during holidays. In August, Jordan wrote on his blog that he missed his daughter so much that he asked his daughter if she’d like to live with him permanently, and that she had accepted.
“I wonder how many days before she’s screaming to go back to her mom’s?” he mused in a blog post the day after Hannah moved in.
Ambrose-Smith did not respond to requests for comment, and Jordan posted on his Facebook page that he was unplugging his phone for the weekend and did not respond to requests for comment. So there’s no way to know whether Hannah is contemplating a return to her mother.
In her denunciation, Hannah complained about having to do chores.
“I’m not your damn slave,” wrote Hannah, an honor student who plays clarinet. “It’s not my responsibility to clean up your sh*t. We have a cleaning lady for a reason. Her name is Linda, not Hannah.”
In his video, Jordan reads the letter aloud, with a few choice comments of his own.
“Your responsibilities include waking up on time and getting on the bus,” he said. “That’s the end of your responsibilities each day. You don’t have that hard of life — which you’re about to.”
He then demolished the laptop with nine hollow-point bullets fired from a .45 handgun.
In his post yesterday, Jordan wrote that if he could do things differently, he would not have smoked a cigarette in the video (he said he wants to quit) and that he would not have referred to his daughter as an “ass.”
“I’d have worn my Silverbelly Stetson, not my Tilley hat if I’d known that image was going to follow me the rest of my life and I’d probably have cleaned my boots,” he added. “That’s it. I meant all the rest of it.”
Kase.Wickman@thedaily.com
