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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]hlthe2b
(102,875 posts)an 18 inch diameter void left in my dry wall and the destroyed towel bar. I paid $275 to replace that entire wall, paint, and replace the bar. That was the cheapest of three estimates I'd gotten to repair it and restore a very necessary half bathroom.
If you think their apology was any better or more sincere than that insulting "begrudging offer" to pay a minuscule part of the true damages, I've got swamp land for you.
Very entitled parents of an "out-of-control" child. The other guests were likewise aghast, so they lost more than just me as a previously close friend.
I don't blame the child. I blame the parents.
I understand the urge of many on this thread to defend the parents of the child who destroyed expensive property. Parenting is tough and they (DU posters) are themselves likely very responsible, teach their kids, and watch them. But, not all parents are so responsible.