Confiscating your kids’ mobile phones not enough of a punishment? Well, if you’re like one Southern mom there’s always the option of shooting up their iPhone with a shotgun to really make your point!
“I hereby denounce the effects that social media have on my children,” the woman says at the beginning of a video, which was uploaded to YouTube over the weekend.
The ensuing iPhone execution would bring tears to the eyes of poor Jony Ive.
The question of how much kids should be allowed to use devices like smartphones and tablets has raged on for quite some time now. In a recent study by the University of Michigan, parents with “difficult” children were found to be far more likely to pacify them by handing over a mobile device.
Steve Jobs, meanwhile, was careful about not letting his kids use iOS devices when they shouldn’t be. With that said, I can’t image Jobs shooting up a smartphone if he found his kid using one during family time — unless it was an Android handset, that is!
Then I could picture him using this gorgeous double-barreled shotgun, designed by Jony Ive BFF and Apple designer Marc Newson, to do the deed.
Update: Unfortunately it appears that the video has been pulled.
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
19 responses to “Shotgun-wielding mom dishes out Southern justice to an iPhone”
She should be a little worried about the effect that having a psychotic fatass redneck mom has on her children.
I’m, I highly doubt that’s ever going to cross her mind. Logic doesn’t exist in her world.
Forget the phone, let’s talk about her aim. Wow!
Filmed in portrait mode, then posted on social media….duH?
Mekes u wonder, have anybody in that gang ever read a book?
OMG. Someone f*&^ed that ugly old b&$^& three times!
Rifles fire bullets. A shotgun is not a rifle.
How about when it shoots a single slug? I think rifle is a cover-all for something not a hand gun. Looking at her just be glad she can speak English
Firearm is the cover all generic term. Rifle applies to a firearm that fires bullets and has a rotational bore in a long barrel. Shotguns fire shells, not bullets … birdshot, buckshot, slugs… Normal shotguns are smooth bore.
Just a detail that caught my eye, I’m sure no one cares either way. :)
You could go on to say that “long gun” is the generic term for firearms that are not handguns. Although that could be a moving target (pun intended) because the barrels of handguns are getting longer and the visible barrels of rifles are getting shorter.
I was going to say I guess it would have to have a rifled barrel to be a rifle. OH well, thanks
Yes inbreeding still lives.
Mommy seems to be one brick short of a full load.
Thats not a woman – thats a man!
What’s gender got to do with abolutely anything here?
its from austin powers.
“I denounce social media” -said over social media.
She is an example of why they should have more restrictive gun laws.
Better schooling, better wages, better taste and better hairdressers too…..
Maladjusted weapons lovers wtf