Um, yes it does. She's a minor child and he is her parent. If she had, as he suggested, gone out to get a job and had earned the money for the laptop herself, you might have a case, but she got the laptop from him and then he spent six hours as an IT professional and $130 of his own money upgrading it for her. And then she objects to doing chores around the house? Ungrateful little cow!
You're missing something. The dad clearly states that they have been through this before, she rebelled and posted foolish, insulting things about her parents before and was warned that the consequences would be very serious if she did it again. Well, she did it again. This is the very serious consequence.
What on earth made her think she had the right to sit on her hindquarters doing nothing except whining while her parents work all day to buy her luxuries? What made her think she could outsmart and insult her father online? Truly outrageous. Yes, since he can't legally lay a hand on her, an online whuppin' was due.
I'm just sad that an innocent laptop had to die. But at least this little demonstration with the ACP prevents months of nonstop whining to get it back. If she wants a new one, she's going to have to work.
Teenage girls are tough. Do you have any?
Teenage girls can be tough, especially when the parent is more of a child than the kid. And in answer to your question, I don't have a teenager, I have a daughter who works at a state hospital where she is a therapist for the criminally insane - I'll have to ask her what she thinks of this psycho...