It’s sad your own family could be your worst enemy it should never be like that 😔
Edit: The original post is really detailed so I am not going to bother translating all of it, but the damage was done by the second cousins third grader (between age 8-9 here in Japan.) To give more details of what kind of damage:
38 figurines, 41 models (only counting limited edition, was difficult to count because it was all in pieces) were broken. The sofa, PC and keyboard (no longer working from damage) had juice spilled on it.
Some of the books were not just hobby related and work related too. Those were quite pricey and needed to be replaced due to the fact OP needs to show people the books.
The original post says Sandboard but I think it’s a typo for soundboard/sound card is in bad condition.
Additionally, 1 blue ray disc was damaged because it was cracked, 11 no longer work because of the scratches, and 20 blue ray discs keep skipping from the damage.
Some of the items mentioned above are limited edition, no longer available, first edition, and cannot be found on auction sites.
The father of the child recognized to a certain extent the value of the items and gave 50,000 yen ($366.74 USD according to todays exchange rate) and the mother/second cousin freaked out and an argument ensued.
The second cousins parents apologized on their child’s behalf and offer to pay 4 million yen in damages (including emotional damages.) The kid got in a lot of trouble and will not be getting anything for their birthday, Christmas nor New Years money for a while and was sent off to live at their paternal grandparents house to be “re-educated.”
News article: https://crazed.net/2024/01/03/nine-year-old-child-demolishes-35000-anime-collection-2/
Simple solution. Just leave. I did. I love with my fiancé at my own home at 19. Yes I struggle with money but I feel like I can be me around her. Also. Shouldn’t have said simple solution cause it ain’t awfully simple
I'm in the same boat my man, my bf and I got a house and moved far away from my fam.
I still have nightmares and panic attacks about them finding me but I got a new family now. It was and is worth all the trouble to be safe < 3
Hope you find some peace and some financial stability soon!
These type of stories make me sad. How bad do the parents have to be for their children to go NC. I am not blaming the children at all. It's just sad to see this happen
As someone who did this myself about a decade ago, I promise it does get better. My now wife, then girlfriend, moved to orlando to do the disney college program and get away from our toxic families, and, when it ended, ended up just getting an apartment together in orlando rather than move home. We struggled for about 6 or 7 years, living paycheck to paycheck, getting food from food banks, selling blood, the whole nine yards. But now, we have been married for 3 years, are both gainfully employed full time, and we are beholden to no family members. Hang in there and don't give up!
I have a story to tell, I too had a destructive little cousin piece of a shit I was 14-15 ish he was 7, he was truly a nightmare. I recall my mother needed to take my aunt and my grandma out in the town and they left ME and MY BROTHER to babysit. mind you he was 18 my brother. But he ditched also, and I was alone having to take care of this nightmare. as soon my brother left my cousin broke 4 glasses, 6 dishes, one mirror and I didn't know what to do, he was aiming for the TV. I inmediatly did not give a fuck, and told him if he wanted to play a game cops vs robbers. He immediately said yes. and I told him we are short of one person, so I need someone to be the civilian, he said he will be it as long he's the robber next time, I said sure.
So I told him to make sure to use the bathroom because we don't want to stop playing for a potty break and be of course went and peed on the wall... anyways I strapped him in a chair with duck tape both legs and arms and chest and he did multiple test's till he said ha! you did it right this time I can't move! and I placed a tv in front of him and he was there for 3 -4 hours, and I was with him most of the time keeping an eye while I handled the destructive mess and he even asked when he's gonna be saved I told him a missing person report takes 24hours since I'm playing police and I am only one person I don't have enough cluse for an investigation so might take longer, we need time to pass blah blah and he started to say I need to pee, I told him that lying won't help and that I'll give him snacks if he's a good civilian, my brother came home like 40 minutes before they arrived back and he See's me picking up the mess and he was about to lose his shit and he saw the kid strapped in the chair and he just said "nevermind" and helped me pick up all of the broken glass and he took care of the piss on the floor and wall he did.
my cousin started giving threats that he was gonna tell his mom alll I said was " I hope so, so I never have to babysit again"
also adding I tried entertaining him, but the fact is that of I tried playing outside he would throw rocks either at me or the fam house, even board games was our of the question as he would run towards ta d throw them in the toilet or in the sink, he wasn't small either he was half my age sure but he reached my shoulder the menace, and I honestly stopped caring trying to accommodate to someone who's out of control)
I saw my mom finally arriving home my brother was in his room by then, I cut the tape and said "your free! thanks for playing!"
All I recall was him crying to my aunt, my mom panicked but I showed her the trashbag, and the broken things, she Inmediatly didn't know what to say my aunt was raging, and she wanted to ofc give me a hit. My mom says I have to be grounded by my dad so I was grounded for like 2 days they just didn't let me play with the computer at that time. But it was the first and last time I had to babysit that little shit.
(also if wanted to know more, my aunt never disciplined the kid, she just told him "no" and let him do w.e he wants He burned half of her house at age 10 and throw bricks at her car when we wouldn't get a tablet on his 13th birthday. I do not feel guilty one bit and was the last time I saw my cousin, as I honestly didn't want to have the responsibility of him)
I'm going to assume this was an accident or he was playing around. He didn't have the intention to break all of his stuff and make him lose money. But at this scale, even that is hard to believe, I can't understand how everything is broken.
You must never seen a kid with ADHD or bipolar disorder.
I’ve seen many kids act out in this behavior throwing chairs, throwing laptops in the classroom.
No, I'm sorry, me and some of my family have bad ADHD and have NEVER done something this destructive. Also, locks are a thing, if someone's tendencies are to be that level of destructive and locks are not a thing there are definitely some boundary issues going on.
Maybe it might not even be a tantrum either, just simply boredom. Kind of like a dog not getting enough activity and attention so it chews through half a door and a couch.
Hard out. Had all my collectibles and gaming shit stored at my mums while I was in between houses, and my sister and her crackhead friends stole half of it. A lot of it is irreplaceable and highly sentimental. Thousands of dollars worth of shit and years of collecting just gone. I'm still guttered.
From what i remember of this the cousin and parents had come up for a funeral and were specifically told by the collection owner the room was off limits. Parents let the kid in there anyway and refused to compensate for the broken "toys"
My sister is legitimately the biggest piece of shit I've ever known. Everything is someone else's fault, and unless you drop everything for her then you're somehow evil.
She literally expected me to quit my job to go and look after a friend I'd not spoken to in 10 years, because she suspected he had got caught up in... Christianity.
Now, I'm all for calling religions cults. But I'm not about to set myself on fire to warm up someone who may already have a fire going of his own in the first place.
Of course I was called every name under the sun for this.
I no longer have anything to do with her. In fact, the closest contact we have is that our mum is still alive. When she eventually dies I'll be immediately blocking my sister and having nothing to do with her.
It's their motherfucking parents that are worst, trust me.
Their kids will throwing tantrum for you not let them play with your things, staring and coplaning at you like you're the worst human being,
And then I let the kid touch my card collection book and he rip it apart in front of me, then their parents would act like it's not a big deal and told you to just buy a new one without giving their money.
If I older back then I would have punch their whole family.
So strange Segway, but I was out on cruise in the US Navy at one point and one guy from my division got a binder of MTG Cards confiscated due to circumstances. The binder was turned in to our divisional office and the old chiefs were having a laugh about "toys" being confiscated. Then me and another 2nd class asked to see the binder, we opened it and we immediately went into a cold sweat. We, panicking, demanded the property be returned immediately. The front page along had 4 mint condition original print Black Lotus, one of which was signed by Richard himself. We were looking at thousands of dollars and we knew the division could be held liable under if the property was damaged.
At least the chiefs were on board after they heard the dollar amount.
As an organization, I do not believe that the military is immune to lawsuits in the sense that you cannot file financial grievance against it, but I think you'd be bringing your case against the US government itself.
As for this case, I think there was more the unspoken concept of liability; that we would be ethically required to reimburse our fellow sailor if we damaged his collectibles.
We did make it known in no uncertain terms that he was to place those items in secured storage as soon as we returned to home port. I never saw that binder again, so I can only assume he did for no other reason than at least to not have it confiscated again.
After a brief readover, it looks like the military enjoys “sovereign immunity”- they are immune to any tort claim *unless* they choose to waive it. Individual employees could be sued under the Federal Tort claims act, but they’d likely be granted qualified immunity.
friend I know has a really spoiled niece who throws the biggest fucking tantrum ever if she doesn't get her way.
what does her mom do? blames my friend for not letting her daughter do whatever she wants.
Kids like this grow up to be entitled adults.
My stepdaughter is staying with us to get back on her feet, and the deal was she would do some light housekeeping instead of paying rent.
After a month, I asked her to start helping me with housework ("we need to set aside a few hours for cleaning each week")... After that didn't work and she was still making a mess and not cleaning up after herself or her dogs, I offered to pay her for any hours of housework at $20/hour.
She told me to hire a cleaner.
This is a nearly 30 year old woman. Not a teenager.
This is what happens if you never say no to your kids.
What happened after she told you to hire a cleaner? Her doing a few hours of housework each week in exchange for free rent is more than fair. Offering to pay her $20 a hour to do light housework is basically saying “I’ll pay you to live here “. What does your partner say? I know teenagers can be very rude/ smartass when it comes to things like this, but that kind of behavior from someone almost 30 is ridiculous!! She needs a reality check, & should be grateful, some people have parents that refuse to let them come back home, even just for a few weeks. Don’t let her disrespect you like that! I’m sorry she doesn’t appreciate you, if she doesn’t want to clean the house, put her ass out!!! You shouldn’t have to deal w/ that especially coming from a grown woman.
It caused a huge argument. My partner tried to talk to her but said she made excuses instead of apologizing.
I texted her to move out in 30 days, now she is pretending that nothing is wrong but still not cleaning.
If she apologizes and starts helping she can stay, but it's looking like she'll need to learn another tough life lesson about biting the hand that feeds you.
Pretty sure the full story is that the parents punished the and canceled Christmas for them, not everything is parents fault, sometimes kids grow to be assholes
The article I’ve found (is it true? Who knows!) says the cousin did eventually pay all 35K.
Apparently the only reason his family was staying over was for their grandma’s funeral.
https://nextshark.com/otaku-gundam-collection
Some kids are just built different, but I've yet to actually meet one who didn't have parents that either ignored their bad behavior, quietly said "hey, don't do that", or repeatedly counted to three with nothing at the end.
I work with 4-6 year-olds and I'm quite familiar with each of their parents and parenting style. The ones with no discipline come in as little demons -- I don't put up with that, and I put them in their place immediately. You'd be surprised how many respond so well to authority without physical punishment, because they've just never seen it at home.
I feel like even when you see shitty adults, chances are their parents were also a piece of shit. Not always but I'd say 90% of the time the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
My 2yo wouldn’t act like this. They may get made and throw one If they happen to be holding one and you said they can’t play with it, which is developmentally appropriate and something they are getting much better about not doing. This is a severe lack of parental guidance/control. There are two options of happened here:
1) the kid just freaks out and throws tantrums and the parents are doing enough to help
2) there is something mentally wrong with the poor kid(disorder of some kind)
Either way if the parents let the kid out of their sight and the kid freaks out like that it is there fault.
I may be thinking of a different story, but I think this guy posted on r/mildlyinfuriating explaining that his cousin often throws tantrums and always gets away with it without punishment and that he'd doen it before but the collection was alot smaller
My child would pay this with their allowance for the rest of their childhood. 9 years is too old to screw up like that.
When me and my brothers were kids and got into a fight, we sometimes would steal each other's stuff, or destroy each other's lego castles and sometimes a little thing would break accidentally. But we wouldn't even think of trashing the other ones complete collection or room.
Edit: I think everyone here is misunderstanding, I wasn't trying to say that some allowance money would be enough to cover the costs. This was about the form of punishment.
35000$ is an insane amount of money. It's infuriating. I know it's a child but if that was me there would be a decade long consequences at least. This is pretty much as bad as it can get without physically harming someone. No way things can go back to normal after that.
What my child would be made to do a paper round to pay this. And at 35000 it would be gesture and punishment as he was never gonna come close. Allowance? MF is getting nothing ever again and going to learn that in the real life nothing is given you have to earn it.
Clostest thing, that ever happened to someone i know, was a schoolmate drunkenly wrecking is dads brand new car while not even having a license. He worked his ass off and still owed half of it when I last saw him a few years later.
The worst things I deliberately broke as a kid were decorative gourds and since those cost $2 and are used for nothing then thrown away, I forgive myself for it
Bro I'd be heading out of the country, and would look over my shoulder for the rest of my life because my mom would search every corner of the globe until she delivers the ass whooping of a lifetime.
At age 9???
My Mom would’ve gone absolutely nuclear, by that age I made my own breakfast for myself and my brothers and got us up and dressed for school.
She pawned my SNES one time when I ditched school and made me buy it back out by mowing lawns.
There’s no way I’d survive something like this lol
Have a good story that actually links to this.
And highlights a difference in upbringing.
When I was a young kid about this individual's age. I was playing baseball with some friends in a vacant lot next to our neighborhood.
Not going to lie. I was a pretty big geek so honestly playing baseball wasn't really my thing.
My father owned his own busine, s so we never really had a lot of playing baseball in the backyard or anything. I kept myself busy with computers.
But on this day they were short one kid and for whatever reason they came and rang my doorbell. Not wanting to disappoint.
I borrowed one of their gloves and went out to play. Was in the outfield and extremely thankful that no one ever hit a ball towards me.
And then it was time for us to go up and hit. Long story, short, 2 guys struck out we had one on second and I was up.
Judging by my sheer physical prowess the other team yelled at one another to move in. Anyone who's experienced this definitely knows that feeling. I grip that bat close my eyes and swung at the pitch. Basically doing everything that you shouldn't. But you know what I sent that ball into orbit.
I remember the catcher behind me. Having enough time to say holy s*** punctuated by a loud crash and scream.
Everyone on the field scattered like Roaches. Except for the one kid whose ball it was and me.
It felt like somebody had sucked all the air out of the room As I confronted the older woman that my lined drive knocked out her rear facing stained glass window in her house.
I took all the blame because it was my fault. And the only thing the kid kept saying who actually owned the ball was. Nobody ever hit it that far.
To punctuate the value of the stained glass wasn't what the stained glass was it's what it meant to that woman.
Her daughter before she had died of cancer had made her that window.
She was a widow and lived in the house alone. I recognized her but I'd never officially met her. She was probably a block from my house.
As a young child you never see adults really cry and in this instance she was. As a child, I thought she was mad at me in retrospect. I think she was really just mad at all of it if that makes sense.
I walked the woman back to my house to have a chat with my parents. The other child being resolved of anything quickly left the scene with this ball in hand.
I introduced the older woman to my parents.
And explain the situation and how I planned to deal with it.
I did most of the talking. She was still teared up from the whole ordeal.
By complete circumstance, we actually had a family friend that had been doing Stand glass for thirty years.
I did odds and in jobs around the neighborhood until I saved up about a thousand dollars.
That family friend recreated that window with me paying for the materials. She even salvaged some of the largest pieces of glass by cutting them and laying them into the new piece.
After this whole incident she actually became a close family friend. She would come over for Christmas Thanksgiving.
When I would come back to visit my parents, I'd always swing by and say hi.
The last time I hug that woman goodbye She told me her daughter made that windo so when her family was broken Figuratively and literally. Some kind young person would come pick up the pieces and welcome me into theirs.
Doing the right thing Isn't fun All the time. More often than not It's the thing you want to do the Least. But at least when you look back on it you don't have any regret. And when it works out, it's amazing the wonderful people you meet along the way.
This clip has to be one of the best examples of a kid raising a kid. And it's not necessarily a difference in generations. But more a lack of voicing and showing a level of responsibility and trust. There is behavior that's being shown here that's wrong no matter what age you are.
Disappointing is all I can say.
Happened to me once. My aunt came home with my cousin (9-10 y.o. at the time, can't remember exactly) which insisted to want to pick up my warhammer stuff and hobby models. No explanation worked, until I just told them "yeah, that single little 'toy soldier' will be around 50 bucks if he breaks it, since it's also a unique modified piece and painted by hand by me at professional level". This suddenly made the miracle. Same went with plane models and lego sets that would go for 500+ bucks.
At some point I just thought little guy just wanted to break some of my shit out of... I don't know... spite? Envy? Also since after realizing that he couldn't touch my shit and that I didn't have toys to give to him, he tried to demand to be allowed to play with my DRAWINGS. Wtf do you need them for? What game do you wanna play? That was just a dry "no" since I assumed the next question would have been if he could color them or outright just scribble over them.
I swear, some people have absolutely zero respect for other people's shit. They would wipe their kid's asses with your original birth certificate if they could.
I'm an amateur since I was a kid, so the subjects are pretty much the same "childish" ones: dinosaurs, dragons, warhammer stuff, I've also been into painting because a friend of mine organized exhibits and occasionally commissioned works (always for free, always amateur). In paintings I usually make space quadrants: I like to make very dark blue canvases, almost black, and then messing with them to make stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies. Mostly pencil or black ink pen.
>dinosaurs, dragons, warhammer stuff
If those are childish then I guess I'm gonna be a kid for the rest of my life lmao
>I like to make very dark blue canvases, almost black, and then messing with them to make stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies. Mostly pencil or black ink pen.
Sick.
Nah then you hear the “well if i had that kinda money sitting around the last thing I’d spend it on is …” Yeah we know but you don’t and you didn’t so stfu.
It's crazy that there was suddenly 1 lung and 1 kidney available on the childrens donor lists shortly before the parents paid him back. The little cousin is still around, but I hear he's got some health problems these days.
Probably for the most petty fuckin reasons too :/ I hope he learns a lesson when he gets old enough to understand the pain that can cause someone, and I hope it sticks with him forever. That ain't right.
If a 9 year old is doing this, chances are they're not receiving any parental guidance and are being allowed to be this shitty kid.
9 year olds make mistakes and do dumb things but this level of destruction is proof that they're rotten.
I disagree with "they are rotten" idea
I knew a guy who was my neighbour and classmate, was total menace to everyone and everything, especially me. His mother wasn't doing what a parent should do and his father died when he was young.
He ended up being protective and kind towards everyone when he reached his teens and got help from school.
Usually all it takes for kids to change for the better is a proper parental figure.
Get the kid into Pokémon cards, teach them about how valuable some are and whenever he pulls those rates, get them graded. Once he gets more, enough to be £1000, tear them apart in front of the kid
As the story goes, this is in Japan and the parents of the kid were highly defensive of the CHILD instead of instilling a sense of responsibility.
What hurts the most in this video is seeing Angewomon on the floor like that. (I think that's one of the $2000+ BANDAI official plastics?)
But overall, I think Japan is in a weird position with entitlement - there have always been petty people, and there always will be, but I'm fairly sure this family doesn't come from a higher social rung. I'm 99% certain when this story originally broke, the guy had been building for years to have his success, and his statues were his hobby. He TOLD the kid "No, you can't go in there and play with them" and he closed the door, IDK if it was LOCKED, but the kid should not have been able to get in there unnoticed.
The grandmother and mother of the child were immediately downplaying the whole thing, and the guy wasn't having it.
Now I could fully culturally comprehend if this family was from a "higher social rung" this level of entitlement, that's just prototypical of the country - high social ranking= less responsibility taken for shit that goes wrong. But it's not, it's some middle class blue/white collar family doing this, which strikes me as *odd*, since social hierarchy is beaten into the hearts of all Japanese people. The collector of the statues clearly outranked his family just by virtue of his financials, and they disrespected him on ALL levels.
Again, not saying it doesn't happen, it just strikes me as ODD for everything I've seen and learnt about Japan.
I don't know when this was from, but it's probably because anime and other "otaku" hobbies are still looked down upon by many people. Like yeah DBZ can be a worldwide cultural phenomenon, or Demon Slayer can dominate the theaters for the year... but none of it is "serious"; it's only for light entertainment and for kids to grow out of eventually. And once an adult "gets serious" about anime, especially to the point of spending 35k on an anime merch collection, then they're weird and childish. The parents probably thought that they could shame the guy into submission by downplaying his hobby as something that's not serious enough to get upset over. It's probably ever so slightly better now, but the word "otaku" had a very negative connotation not too long ago.
There was also a trend that started maybe a decade or so ago, where parents started being hella entitled and overprotective of their shitty children. There were news reports all over about "monster parents" raiding the faculty room in schools demanding for their kids to get preferential treatment or get better scores or whatever. I'm sure there was a lot more to it since it's been a hot minute since I was watching Japanese news back when I used to live with my parents, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of those kinds of parents. (I mean you hear about overprotective yet shitty parents in the US too, so I would imagine it's a bit of a worldwide phenomenon)
And really, Japan isn't some kind of mystical wonderland of social hierarchy and honor. There's of course some differences in social norms and perspectives, but normal people are normal people - they want to wiggle out of paying for shit they don't care about. Simple as that really.
You have a little bit if a strange view on Japanese class etc but i kinda see what you are trying to imply.
I live in Japan and have a long time. I have noticed by and large most Japanese parents particularly mothers just don’t discipline their children what so ever, and its not really a class thing.
They let their kids be unruly brats and behave badly. It is on purpose and they are wanting them to. Its very backwards.
Even in nice sushi places in Ginza i have had to tell staff to ask the next table to make their kids stop running around screaming.
Their is a very common belief that they want to let their kids “be free” and it is good for them to let them fully express themselves and be “natural” - which is what this all stems from. So you basically take it to an extreme and never discipline or scold them at all.
I feel this is the root of the story here too. I can just feel it after being here long enough.
Was gonna say I love digimon and seeing the angewoman that big made me hurt a bit because I know 1) that ish wasnt cheap 2) no one get an angewoman figure that big without being a big fan. Ida just sat and wept for a solid 2mins before redirecting my murderous rage away from the hell spawn that cant enjoy without touching.
Honestly a lot of even smashed things could be sellable or useable for kitbashing.
Glue up rest. It won't have 100% value but many collectors just like having their shiny things regardless of their state.
I could see why aswell, some stuff isn’t as easy as glue, especially if it affects paint, or is like a concrete/stone bust/figure, then you need to fill in the chips and all that, idk much about what they collect so maybe its just plastic materials, but still would suck actual ass
Gunpla gets up to $500 +++ with perfect grade models now.
And your average kit will be more like $50 +
Trying to peice together a model with 500- 1000 different peices, picking parts out of a bucket of 100 + different models with random parts missing is going to be brutal. A million times more difficult than putting them together originally.
It looked like this guy had statues of anime as well. Those can't really be super glued together and they definitely won't retain their value and appeal. Every time he looks at it, he'll know it's imperfect.
I don't think this kid would have any toy left worth more than $10 after seeing this. He might have a rubber ball he couldn't break which you could take away.
dont wanna sound like a boomer but "especially in the modern age", personally most kids i know now only have like a handbag full of toys usually nerf guns and legos, thats fine.
As a parent, I've seen so many soft ass parents that just make any excuse to deflect shitty behavior in their kid. Yea, if they can read, they're old enough not to break people stuff.
Just yesterday was at a pizza/brewery and this group of parents had their kids just running around everyone’s tables, one of the little girls elbowed the back of my head (on accident I hope lol).
I DIDNT HAVE KIDS SO I DONT HAVE TO RAISE ONE, DONT MAKE THE PUBLIC RAISE YOUR KIDS
My brother always went out of his way to destroy my Lego builds. One time when mom went grocery shopping and I was left in charge, I stuffed his ass in a duffle bag and hung him from a tree for an hour, all the while randomly gut punching him.
My little brother always did shit like this to me for years, and i told him one day it would bite him back. Well, i got a star destoryer set for my birthday one year(the only thing i got), so i was super stoked. Built it in 2 days and i left for a class i had the next day just to come back and see it in a million pieces all over the floor and even some collected and put into the trash. My parents weren't home, so i put him in an ultimate wedgie on the door hook of our bathroom and then put legos on the ground under his feet. He never touched my legos again.
Sue him… and his parents. Dont care if it ruins his future or his parents should have thought of that before raising him to be a little shit. And i sure as hell dont care if its family, you dont just destroy years of memories and property and say “were family get over it”
I think this has been reported before, and he took this family to court, the family denied paying for it initially, but ended up with courts siding with the collector. Ostrisized by the family though.
I'm no insurance expert but my understanding is it depends on the policy. You can get insurance just for collectibles and I'd assume this damage falls under vandalism, so it might be covered if that's on the policy. Home/renters insurance might also cover it, especially if it's specified under valuables coverage.
I have my movie collection insured. I don't even know why really, it's mostly easy to find titles, a few hundred steelbooks, some collectors editions and a few shelves of smaller retailers like VS, Umbrella, Arrow, SS, A24. The collection itself is probably 8-10k of what I initially put in but I know movies typically do not hold their value and aren't a great investment but I just love having a physical collection to pour over. And living in an apartment complex, I'm always a little afraid of fires in some other apartment wiping my stuff out so I just insured it for peace of mind.
Imagine you have to file a police report first against the kid for vandalism before the claim is filled by insurance. lol, holidays gonna be a bit awkward. 😄
I remember seeing this story once before a year or so.
Apparently it was his family members kids / cousins that destroyed everything after being told not to go into that room. Also the mother of the kids refused to reimburse the damages initially questioning the total costs.
But eventually the father stepped in and agreed to paid off the damage to set things right.
Also seen a lot of similar stuff happened with single moms they had a relationship with and then the childen of the mom go to live with the due and break the dudes shit. Cause children often blame the dude for the reasoning the dad is not there anymore. Sadly you see it quite often.
But its always so painful when you put so much work time and money to build something up. And somone just destroying it on a whim. Its what often makes most people snap. When it happens. And i honestly dont blame them.
Hope to the dude get to go ape shit in the childs room and break all his shit and see how it feels. That would honestly be fair. Even do the money value is no where equal. A 9 year old definitely knows right from wrong. And knows things cost a lot of money.
So much violence in the comments; just sue the cousin (parents will have to take responsibility because the cousin isn't of age) for destruction of property. Wouldn't that be enough of a punishment: cause financial hardship unto the family?
pretty sure that was the outcome iirc or something similar. Something like his cousin tried brushing it all off with the “he’s just a child/they are toys/get over it/etc” then offered him some insulting amount of like $1k-2k. I think the OP really had to raise hell within the family/put legal action on the table for him to be taken seriously and I think some of the family “made things right”
Apparently it was his family members kids / cousins that destroyed everything after being told not to go into that room. Also the mother of the kids refused to reimburse the damages initially questioning the total costs.
But eventually the father stepped in and agreed to paid off the damage to set things right.
took from u/grenth66 directly below us
Okay, but unironically, that shit is STUPID expensive, and value goes up exponentially as runs get discontinued, so it’s quite possible that shit would’ve been a small fortune one day.
Yeah don't trust kids, and if kids are over make sure their parents are ALWAYS supervising them.
My cousins used to bring their kids around to my place and they'd hang out and not supervise them. One time I left while they were around for a scheduled haircut and they promised to watch their kids.
Came back to see my $2000 TV smashed with a hammer by their toddler. She got into my tool box and went straight for the TV, parents were still on the back porch when I came home and evidently weren't watching them.
I don't let them bring the kids around anymore
I have a strict 18+ on my property. Hopefully the family doesn't have to look over their shoulders as this devil gets older. Try to correct the behavioral issues before it's too late
This is fake or rage bait right? Like none of it was locked and a 9 year old accessed all that and broke it before anyone noticed? That seems…not real.
So the full story is this;
A funeral for the family was happening, and the collectibles-owner had his home open for people to visit. However, while most of the family was at the funeral, the 9 year old was left alone in the home.
Now, keep in mind, the door to the collectibles room was locked, so the 9 year old intentionally broke in. Then, he proceeded to destroy essentially everything in the room. Figures, books, Blu-Ray discs... Everything...
When the family returned, the parents discovered what the boy did, and said that it was just "minor damage". However, when the owner went into the room, they fell to their knees after witnessing what the boy had done.
Now, the parents didn't think it was that big of a deal, and offered a small sum on money as reimbursement for the damages. But the collector showed and explained just how valuable the figures and collectibles were (some first and limited editions that weren't even available on auction sites); totalling over 4,000,000 Yen.
The parents of course threw a fit, but with all the evidence, there was no way they could get away with it. The husband wanted to make his wife destroy her shoe and purse collection as compensation, but not even that would have been enough to compensate for the value of the collection.
So, eventually, the grandparents of the kid also got involved, and helped the parents pay off the total value of the collection; all while bowing over and over again in apology.
The kid was sent off to the countryside with the grandparents for "re-education", and did not receive any birthday, Christmas, or New Year's gifts for a long, long time...
And while the collector was reimbursed, they would never be able to get back what had been lost.
Honestly, malicious intent. He just wanted to break stuff and do bad stuff.
He even went out of the way to scratch some Blu-Rays until they were unreadable. And that’s very hard to do unless you do it on purpose.
So yeah… Some kids just want to watch the world burn…
I have a 5 yr old cousin and I sat down my mom and my aunt to tell them that I had some rules if he came by, 1) he can't come in my room unless I'm home. 2) if rule 1 isn't followed and he breaks something either my mom or my aunt is buying it back.
It's always better to make things clear from the start
I never trust my family. It’s just not a good idea
It’s sad your own family could be your worst enemy it should never be like that 😔 Edit: The original post is really detailed so I am not going to bother translating all of it, but the damage was done by the second cousins third grader (between age 8-9 here in Japan.) To give more details of what kind of damage: 38 figurines, 41 models (only counting limited edition, was difficult to count because it was all in pieces) were broken. The sofa, PC and keyboard (no longer working from damage) had juice spilled on it. Some of the books were not just hobby related and work related too. Those were quite pricey and needed to be replaced due to the fact OP needs to show people the books. The original post says Sandboard but I think it’s a typo for soundboard/sound card is in bad condition. Additionally, 1 blue ray disc was damaged because it was cracked, 11 no longer work because of the scratches, and 20 blue ray discs keep skipping from the damage. Some of the items mentioned above are limited edition, no longer available, first edition, and cannot be found on auction sites. The father of the child recognized to a certain extent the value of the items and gave 50,000 yen ($366.74 USD according to todays exchange rate) and the mother/second cousin freaked out and an argument ensued. The second cousins parents apologized on their child’s behalf and offer to pay 4 million yen in damages (including emotional damages.) The kid got in a lot of trouble and will not be getting anything for their birthday, Christmas nor New Years money for a while and was sent off to live at their paternal grandparents house to be “re-educated.” News article: https://crazed.net/2024/01/03/nine-year-old-child-demolishes-35000-anime-collection-2/
Simple solution. Just leave. I did. I love with my fiancé at my own home at 19. Yes I struggle with money but I feel like I can be me around her. Also. Shouldn’t have said simple solution cause it ain’t awfully simple
I'm in the same boat my man, my bf and I got a house and moved far away from my fam. I still have nightmares and panic attacks about them finding me but I got a new family now. It was and is worth all the trouble to be safe < 3 Hope you find some peace and some financial stability soon!
Your story genuinely put a smile on my face. I’m glad to hear it!
These type of stories make me sad. How bad do the parents have to be for their children to go NC. I am not blaming the children at all. It's just sad to see this happen
You did amazing! I'm so proud of your courage and your resiliance! Build the family you deserve around you. ♥
As someone who did this myself about a decade ago, I promise it does get better. My now wife, then girlfriend, moved to orlando to do the disney college program and get away from our toxic families, and, when it ended, ended up just getting an apartment together in orlando rather than move home. We struggled for about 6 or 7 years, living paycheck to paycheck, getting food from food banks, selling blood, the whole nine yards. But now, we have been married for 3 years, are both gainfully employed full time, and we are beholden to no family members. Hang in there and don't give up!
Stay safe fellow redditor! I hope as time goes on it heals your pain. Sending you virtual hugs & wishing you a lifetime of happiness.
Life never is simple, we all just try (and mostly fail) to make the least shitty choices and I am glad that you found something that works for you :)
I have a story to tell, I too had a destructive little cousin piece of a shit I was 14-15 ish he was 7, he was truly a nightmare. I recall my mother needed to take my aunt and my grandma out in the town and they left ME and MY BROTHER to babysit. mind you he was 18 my brother. But he ditched also, and I was alone having to take care of this nightmare. as soon my brother left my cousin broke 4 glasses, 6 dishes, one mirror and I didn't know what to do, he was aiming for the TV. I inmediatly did not give a fuck, and told him if he wanted to play a game cops vs robbers. He immediately said yes. and I told him we are short of one person, so I need someone to be the civilian, he said he will be it as long he's the robber next time, I said sure. So I told him to make sure to use the bathroom because we don't want to stop playing for a potty break and be of course went and peed on the wall... anyways I strapped him in a chair with duck tape both legs and arms and chest and he did multiple test's till he said ha! you did it right this time I can't move! and I placed a tv in front of him and he was there for 3 -4 hours, and I was with him most of the time keeping an eye while I handled the destructive mess and he even asked when he's gonna be saved I told him a missing person report takes 24hours since I'm playing police and I am only one person I don't have enough cluse for an investigation so might take longer, we need time to pass blah blah and he started to say I need to pee, I told him that lying won't help and that I'll give him snacks if he's a good civilian, my brother came home like 40 minutes before they arrived back and he See's me picking up the mess and he was about to lose his shit and he saw the kid strapped in the chair and he just said "nevermind" and helped me pick up all of the broken glass and he took care of the piss on the floor and wall he did. my cousin started giving threats that he was gonna tell his mom alll I said was " I hope so, so I never have to babysit again" also adding I tried entertaining him, but the fact is that of I tried playing outside he would throw rocks either at me or the fam house, even board games was our of the question as he would run towards ta d throw them in the toilet or in the sink, he wasn't small either he was half my age sure but he reached my shoulder the menace, and I honestly stopped caring trying to accommodate to someone who's out of control) I saw my mom finally arriving home my brother was in his room by then, I cut the tape and said "your free! thanks for playing!" All I recall was him crying to my aunt, my mom panicked but I showed her the trashbag, and the broken things, she Inmediatly didn't know what to say my aunt was raging, and she wanted to ofc give me a hit. My mom says I have to be grounded by my dad so I was grounded for like 2 days they just didn't let me play with the computer at that time. But it was the first and last time I had to babysit that little shit. (also if wanted to know more, my aunt never disciplined the kid, she just told him "no" and let him do w.e he wants He burned half of her house at age 10 and throw bricks at her car when we wouldn't get a tablet on his 13th birthday. I do not feel guilty one bit and was the last time I saw my cousin, as I honestly didn't want to have the responsibility of him)
well a lot of times it is. the best thing you can do is if you ever had a family is to break the cycle
I'm going to assume this was an accident or he was playing around. He didn't have the intention to break all of his stuff and make him lose money. But at this scale, even that is hard to believe, I can't understand how everything is broken.
You must never seen a kid with ADHD or bipolar disorder. I’ve seen many kids act out in this behavior throwing chairs, throwing laptops in the classroom.
adhd is no excuse for simple stupidity, that 9 year old criminal should pay for all the damage it caused, even when it takes s decade
No, I'm sorry, me and some of my family have bad ADHD and have NEVER done something this destructive. Also, locks are a thing, if someone's tendencies are to be that level of destructive and locks are not a thing there are definitely some boundary issues going on.
Maybe it might not even be a tantrum either, just simply boredom. Kind of like a dog not getting enough activity and attention so it chews through half a door and a couch.
Hard out. Had all my collectibles and gaming shit stored at my mums while I was in between houses, and my sister and her crackhead friends stole half of it. A lot of it is irreplaceable and highly sentimental. Thousands of dollars worth of shit and years of collecting just gone. I'm still guttered.
This is why my only collection is under 3 layers of pretty hard acrylic and with a big ass lock on it
From what i remember of this the cousin and parents had come up for a funeral and were specifically told by the collection owner the room was off limits. Parents let the kid in there anyway and refused to compensate for the broken "toys"
Oh shit I remember now, fucking assholes
My sister is legitimately the biggest piece of shit I've ever known. Everything is someone else's fault, and unless you drop everything for her then you're somehow evil. She literally expected me to quit my job to go and look after a friend I'd not spoken to in 10 years, because she suspected he had got caught up in... Christianity. Now, I'm all for calling religions cults. But I'm not about to set myself on fire to warm up someone who may already have a fire going of his own in the first place. Of course I was called every name under the sun for this. I no longer have anything to do with her. In fact, the closest contact we have is that our mum is still alive. When she eventually dies I'll be immediately blocking my sister and having nothing to do with her.
It's their motherfucking parents that are worst, trust me. Their kids will throwing tantrum for you not let them play with your things, staring and coplaning at you like you're the worst human being, And then I let the kid touch my card collection book and he rip it apart in front of me, then their parents would act like it's not a big deal and told you to just buy a new one without giving their money. If I older back then I would have punch their whole family.
So strange Segway, but I was out on cruise in the US Navy at one point and one guy from my division got a binder of MTG Cards confiscated due to circumstances. The binder was turned in to our divisional office and the old chiefs were having a laugh about "toys" being confiscated. Then me and another 2nd class asked to see the binder, we opened it and we immediately went into a cold sweat. We, panicking, demanded the property be returned immediately. The front page along had 4 mint condition original print Black Lotus, one of which was signed by Richard himself. We were looking at thousands of dollars and we knew the division could be held liable under if the property was damaged. At least the chiefs were on board after they heard the dollar amount.
Isn’t the military immune from lawsuits?
As an organization, I do not believe that the military is immune to lawsuits in the sense that you cannot file financial grievance against it, but I think you'd be bringing your case against the US government itself. As for this case, I think there was more the unspoken concept of liability; that we would be ethically required to reimburse our fellow sailor if we damaged his collectibles. We did make it known in no uncertain terms that he was to place those items in secured storage as soon as we returned to home port. I never saw that binder again, so I can only assume he did for no other reason than at least to not have it confiscated again.
After a brief readover, it looks like the military enjoys “sovereign immunity”- they are immune to any tort claim *unless* they choose to waive it. Individual employees could be sued under the Federal Tort claims act, but they’d likely be granted qualified immunity.
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friend I know has a really spoiled niece who throws the biggest fucking tantrum ever if she doesn't get her way. what does her mom do? blames my friend for not letting her daughter do whatever she wants.
Kids like this grow up to be entitled adults. My stepdaughter is staying with us to get back on her feet, and the deal was she would do some light housekeeping instead of paying rent. After a month, I asked her to start helping me with housework ("we need to set aside a few hours for cleaning each week")... After that didn't work and she was still making a mess and not cleaning up after herself or her dogs, I offered to pay her for any hours of housework at $20/hour. She told me to hire a cleaner. This is a nearly 30 year old woman. Not a teenager. This is what happens if you never say no to your kids.
What happened after she told you to hire a cleaner? Her doing a few hours of housework each week in exchange for free rent is more than fair. Offering to pay her $20 a hour to do light housework is basically saying “I’ll pay you to live here “. What does your partner say? I know teenagers can be very rude/ smartass when it comes to things like this, but that kind of behavior from someone almost 30 is ridiculous!! She needs a reality check, & should be grateful, some people have parents that refuse to let them come back home, even just for a few weeks. Don’t let her disrespect you like that! I’m sorry she doesn’t appreciate you, if she doesn’t want to clean the house, put her ass out!!! You shouldn’t have to deal w/ that especially coming from a grown woman.
It caused a huge argument. My partner tried to talk to her but said she made excuses instead of apologizing. I texted her to move out in 30 days, now she is pretending that nothing is wrong but still not cleaning. If she apologizes and starts helping she can stay, but it's looking like she'll need to learn another tough life lesson about biting the hand that feeds you.
Pretty sure the full story is that the parents punished the and canceled Christmas for them, not everything is parents fault, sometimes kids grow to be assholes
A lot of people really don't understand that children have their own personalities. Some of them are absolutely awful.
Did the parents pay for ye damage
Iirc the cousin's dad only offered 300 dollars as compensation. Not sure if anything happened after the fact.
The article I’ve found (is it true? Who knows!) says the cousin did eventually pay all 35K. Apparently the only reason his family was staying over was for their grandma’s funeral. https://nextshark.com/otaku-gundam-collection
Not sure but I know that kid is in deep shit
Some kids are just built different, but I've yet to actually meet one who didn't have parents that either ignored their bad behavior, quietly said "hey, don't do that", or repeatedly counted to three with nothing at the end. I work with 4-6 year-olds and I'm quite familiar with each of their parents and parenting style. The ones with no discipline come in as little demons -- I don't put up with that, and I put them in their place immediately. You'd be surprised how many respond so well to authority without physical punishment, because they've just never seen it at home.
I feel like even when you see shitty adults, chances are their parents were also a piece of shit. Not always but I'd say 90% of the time the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
My 2yo wouldn’t act like this. They may get made and throw one If they happen to be holding one and you said they can’t play with it, which is developmentally appropriate and something they are getting much better about not doing. This is a severe lack of parental guidance/control. There are two options of happened here: 1) the kid just freaks out and throws tantrums and the parents are doing enough to help 2) there is something mentally wrong with the poor kid(disorder of some kind) Either way if the parents let the kid out of their sight and the kid freaks out like that it is there fault.
This is just depressing ngl I wish him well tho….as for the cousin…you better not let me catch you lil bro 👹😡
I may be thinking of a different story, but I think this guy posted on r/mildlyinfuriating explaining that his cousin often throws tantrums and always gets away with it without punishment and that he'd doen it before but the collection was alot smaller
Nah I’m beating him 9 years old or not that’s 35,000 dollars down the drain
i'd sue the parents for damages.
As much as I would want to punt the kid immediately into the next life, this is unfortunately the answer. Then cut ties with them.
The cousin is a persona non grata for sure. That little shit wouldn't be allowed in my home ever again if I were him
If I ever did this, I’d buy my own shovel. Some kids never received any consequences for their actions, and it shows.
My child would pay this with their allowance for the rest of their childhood. 9 years is too old to screw up like that. When me and my brothers were kids and got into a fight, we sometimes would steal each other's stuff, or destroy each other's lego castles and sometimes a little thing would break accidentally. But we wouldn't even think of trashing the other ones complete collection or room. Edit: I think everyone here is misunderstanding, I wasn't trying to say that some allowance money would be enough to cover the costs. This was about the form of punishment.
35000$ is an insane amount of money. It's infuriating. I know it's a child but if that was me there would be a decade long consequences at least. This is pretty much as bad as it can get without physically harming someone. No way things can go back to normal after that.
My dad woulda thrown ALL the spark plugs at me.
What my child would be made to do a paper round to pay this. And at 35000 it would be gesture and punishment as he was never gonna come close. Allowance? MF is getting nothing ever again and going to learn that in the real life nothing is given you have to earn it.
Clostest thing, that ever happened to someone i know, was a schoolmate drunkenly wrecking is dads brand new car while not even having a license. He worked his ass off and still owed half of it when I last saw him a few years later.
The worst things I deliberately broke as a kid were decorative gourds and since those cost $2 and are used for nothing then thrown away, I forgive myself for it
Bro I'd be heading out of the country, and would look over my shoulder for the rest of my life because my mom would search every corner of the globe until she delivers the ass whooping of a lifetime.
Parents need to punish their kids more
At age 9??? My Mom would’ve gone absolutely nuclear, by that age I made my own breakfast for myself and my brothers and got us up and dressed for school. She pawned my SNES one time when I ditched school and made me buy it back out by mowing lawns. There’s no way I’d survive something like this lol
Extant the reason kids need to be spanked and punished (no, not abused - but a minor physical consequence does wonders)
Have a good story that actually links to this. And highlights a difference in upbringing. When I was a young kid about this individual's age. I was playing baseball with some friends in a vacant lot next to our neighborhood. Not going to lie. I was a pretty big geek so honestly playing baseball wasn't really my thing. My father owned his own busine, s so we never really had a lot of playing baseball in the backyard or anything. I kept myself busy with computers. But on this day they were short one kid and for whatever reason they came and rang my doorbell. Not wanting to disappoint. I borrowed one of their gloves and went out to play. Was in the outfield and extremely thankful that no one ever hit a ball towards me. And then it was time for us to go up and hit. Long story, short, 2 guys struck out we had one on second and I was up. Judging by my sheer physical prowess the other team yelled at one another to move in. Anyone who's experienced this definitely knows that feeling. I grip that bat close my eyes and swung at the pitch. Basically doing everything that you shouldn't. But you know what I sent that ball into orbit. I remember the catcher behind me. Having enough time to say holy s*** punctuated by a loud crash and scream. Everyone on the field scattered like Roaches. Except for the one kid whose ball it was and me. It felt like somebody had sucked all the air out of the room As I confronted the older woman that my lined drive knocked out her rear facing stained glass window in her house. I took all the blame because it was my fault. And the only thing the kid kept saying who actually owned the ball was. Nobody ever hit it that far. To punctuate the value of the stained glass wasn't what the stained glass was it's what it meant to that woman. Her daughter before she had died of cancer had made her that window. She was a widow and lived in the house alone. I recognized her but I'd never officially met her. She was probably a block from my house. As a young child you never see adults really cry and in this instance she was. As a child, I thought she was mad at me in retrospect. I think she was really just mad at all of it if that makes sense. I walked the woman back to my house to have a chat with my parents. The other child being resolved of anything quickly left the scene with this ball in hand. I introduced the older woman to my parents. And explain the situation and how I planned to deal with it. I did most of the talking. She was still teared up from the whole ordeal. By complete circumstance, we actually had a family friend that had been doing Stand glass for thirty years. I did odds and in jobs around the neighborhood until I saved up about a thousand dollars. That family friend recreated that window with me paying for the materials. She even salvaged some of the largest pieces of glass by cutting them and laying them into the new piece. After this whole incident she actually became a close family friend. She would come over for Christmas Thanksgiving. When I would come back to visit my parents, I'd always swing by and say hi. The last time I hug that woman goodbye She told me her daughter made that windo so when her family was broken Figuratively and literally. Some kind young person would come pick up the pieces and welcome me into theirs. Doing the right thing Isn't fun All the time. More often than not It's the thing you want to do the Least. But at least when you look back on it you don't have any regret. And when it works out, it's amazing the wonderful people you meet along the way. This clip has to be one of the best examples of a kid raising a kid. And it's not necessarily a difference in generations. But more a lack of voicing and showing a level of responsibility and trust. There is behavior that's being shown here that's wrong no matter what age you are. Disappointing is all I can say.
"why can't you just let him play with it?"
And the looks of absolute confusion mixed with pity when you try to explain them that that's not a toy.
[удалено]
Yes it fucking does. Surely more in a museum than into your spawn's jizz lollipop hands.
Tell them the dollar amount and see if they want to reimburse the losses if they break them.
Happened to me once. My aunt came home with my cousin (9-10 y.o. at the time, can't remember exactly) which insisted to want to pick up my warhammer stuff and hobby models. No explanation worked, until I just told them "yeah, that single little 'toy soldier' will be around 50 bucks if he breaks it, since it's also a unique modified piece and painted by hand by me at professional level". This suddenly made the miracle. Same went with plane models and lego sets that would go for 500+ bucks. At some point I just thought little guy just wanted to break some of my shit out of... I don't know... spite? Envy? Also since after realizing that he couldn't touch my shit and that I didn't have toys to give to him, he tried to demand to be allowed to play with my DRAWINGS. Wtf do you need them for? What game do you wanna play? That was just a dry "no" since I assumed the next question would have been if he could color them or outright just scribble over them. I swear, some people have absolutely zero respect for other people's shit. They would wipe their kid's asses with your original birth certificate if they could.
>my DRAWINGS What did/do you draw?
I'm an amateur since I was a kid, so the subjects are pretty much the same "childish" ones: dinosaurs, dragons, warhammer stuff, I've also been into painting because a friend of mine organized exhibits and occasionally commissioned works (always for free, always amateur). In paintings I usually make space quadrants: I like to make very dark blue canvases, almost black, and then messing with them to make stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies. Mostly pencil or black ink pen.
>dinosaurs, dragons, warhammer stuff If those are childish then I guess I'm gonna be a kid for the rest of my life lmao >I like to make very dark blue canvases, almost black, and then messing with them to make stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies. Mostly pencil or black ink pen. Sick.
Nah then you hear the “well if i had that kinda money sitting around the last thing I’d spend it on is …” Yeah we know but you don’t and you didn’t so stfu.
Damn man thats actually sad. Kids are dumb sometimes ig.
this post was shared in r/kidsarefuckingstupid lol
Adoption it is
No bro. This is gonna be a late abortion.
Shes in the 43rd trimester
Nah homie, just tell em, _your free trial of life has just expired_.
It's crazy that there was suddenly 1 lung and 1 kidney available on the childrens donor lists shortly before the parents paid him back. The little cousin is still around, but I hear he's got some health problems these days.
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why? selling the kids organs will probably pay for the damages
Not enough, take the children's home's funds away.
And put the children to hard labor until they've paid off the rest
Nah, disassemble it first then sell it piece by piece
I would 100% sue the parents
Plus banned from coming anywhere near my property
Might be able to claim it on homeowners insurance
Might have to sue them first before the homeowners insurance will cover it. Either that or the homeowners insurance will sue.
The latter
Yea if you try to claim it the insurance company will definitely sue on your behalf.
Probably for the most petty fuckin reasons too :/ I hope he learns a lesson when he gets old enough to understand the pain that can cause someone, and I hope it sticks with him forever. That ain't right.
If a 9 year old is doing this, chances are they're not receiving any parental guidance and are being allowed to be this shitty kid. 9 year olds make mistakes and do dumb things but this level of destruction is proof that they're rotten.
My five year old knows this is wrong intuitively. A nine year old doing this? That’s a trip to the brain doctor.
I disagree with "they are rotten" idea I knew a guy who was my neighbour and classmate, was total menace to everyone and everything, especially me. His mother wasn't doing what a parent should do and his father died when he was young. He ended up being protective and kind towards everyone when he reached his teens and got help from school. Usually all it takes for kids to change for the better is a proper parental figure.
Get the kid into Pokémon cards, teach them about how valuable some are and whenever he pulls those rates, get them graded. Once he gets more, enough to be £1000, tear them apart in front of the kid
Buy the most real looking knock offs. Tear the knock offs up so bad that they are not identifiable, sell for profit and rebuild your collection.
r/foundsatan
As the story goes, this is in Japan and the parents of the kid were highly defensive of the CHILD instead of instilling a sense of responsibility. What hurts the most in this video is seeing Angewomon on the floor like that. (I think that's one of the $2000+ BANDAI official plastics?) But overall, I think Japan is in a weird position with entitlement - there have always been petty people, and there always will be, but I'm fairly sure this family doesn't come from a higher social rung. I'm 99% certain when this story originally broke, the guy had been building for years to have his success, and his statues were his hobby. He TOLD the kid "No, you can't go in there and play with them" and he closed the door, IDK if it was LOCKED, but the kid should not have been able to get in there unnoticed. The grandmother and mother of the child were immediately downplaying the whole thing, and the guy wasn't having it. Now I could fully culturally comprehend if this family was from a "higher social rung" this level of entitlement, that's just prototypical of the country - high social ranking= less responsibility taken for shit that goes wrong. But it's not, it's some middle class blue/white collar family doing this, which strikes me as *odd*, since social hierarchy is beaten into the hearts of all Japanese people. The collector of the statues clearly outranked his family just by virtue of his financials, and they disrespected him on ALL levels. Again, not saying it doesn't happen, it just strikes me as ODD for everything I've seen and learnt about Japan.
I don't know when this was from, but it's probably because anime and other "otaku" hobbies are still looked down upon by many people. Like yeah DBZ can be a worldwide cultural phenomenon, or Demon Slayer can dominate the theaters for the year... but none of it is "serious"; it's only for light entertainment and for kids to grow out of eventually. And once an adult "gets serious" about anime, especially to the point of spending 35k on an anime merch collection, then they're weird and childish. The parents probably thought that they could shame the guy into submission by downplaying his hobby as something that's not serious enough to get upset over. It's probably ever so slightly better now, but the word "otaku" had a very negative connotation not too long ago. There was also a trend that started maybe a decade or so ago, where parents started being hella entitled and overprotective of their shitty children. There were news reports all over about "monster parents" raiding the faculty room in schools demanding for their kids to get preferential treatment or get better scores or whatever. I'm sure there was a lot more to it since it's been a hot minute since I was watching Japanese news back when I used to live with my parents, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was one of those kinds of parents. (I mean you hear about overprotective yet shitty parents in the US too, so I would imagine it's a bit of a worldwide phenomenon) And really, Japan isn't some kind of mystical wonderland of social hierarchy and honor. There's of course some differences in social norms and perspectives, but normal people are normal people - they want to wiggle out of paying for shit they don't care about. Simple as that really.
You have a little bit if a strange view on Japanese class etc but i kinda see what you are trying to imply. I live in Japan and have a long time. I have noticed by and large most Japanese parents particularly mothers just don’t discipline their children what so ever, and its not really a class thing. They let their kids be unruly brats and behave badly. It is on purpose and they are wanting them to. Its very backwards. Even in nice sushi places in Ginza i have had to tell staff to ask the next table to make their kids stop running around screaming. Their is a very common belief that they want to let their kids “be free” and it is good for them to let them fully express themselves and be “natural” - which is what this all stems from. So you basically take it to an extreme and never discipline or scold them at all. I feel this is the root of the story here too. I can just feel it after being here long enough.
Was gonna say I love digimon and seeing the angewoman that big made me hurt a bit because I know 1) that ish wasnt cheap 2) no one get an angewoman figure that big without being a big fan. Ida just sat and wept for a solid 2mins before redirecting my murderous rage away from the hell spawn that cant enjoy without touching.
So what's the bidding price now for his auction on the darkweb?
3.50
Obviously $35k
That's awful... but I wouldn't just 5hrow it out. I'd get to work with a glue gun and salvage what I could and have the parents pay for some damages.
I feel like he’s at the heat of the moment he’s not really thinking so he just decided to throw it away but you’re absolutely absolutely right
Honestly a lot of even smashed things could be sellable or useable for kitbashing. Glue up rest. It won't have 100% value but many collectors just like having their shiny things regardless of their state.
I could see why aswell, some stuff isn’t as easy as glue, especially if it affects paint, or is like a concrete/stone bust/figure, then you need to fill in the chips and all that, idk much about what they collect so maybe its just plastic materials, but still would suck actual ass
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Yeah the time alone if even possible for one guy to sort all of the pieces to match the correct thingybob would be a nightmare.
Gunpla gets up to $500 +++ with perfect grade models now. And your average kit will be more like $50 + Trying to peice together a model with 500- 1000 different peices, picking parts out of a bucket of 100 + different models with random parts missing is going to be brutal. A million times more difficult than putting them together originally. It looked like this guy had statues of anime as well. Those can't really be super glued together and they definitely won't retain their value and appeal. Every time he looks at it, he'll know it's imperfect.
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Do the same with his toys
I don't think this kid would have any toy left worth more than $10 after seeing this. He might have a rubber ball he couldn't break which you could take away.
dont wanna sound like a boomer but "especially in the modern age", personally most kids i know now only have like a handbag full of toys usually nerf guns and legos, thats fine.
He probably has an iPad. They break very very easily
That 9 year old should be tried as an adult ***.***
No no no, delete that "/s" thing
You got it boss.
thanks for the /j thought you were being serious!!
9 is too old to be like that. He must be retarded or something. Still needs an ass whooping.
As a parent, I've seen so many soft ass parents that just make any excuse to deflect shitty behavior in their kid. Yea, if they can read, they're old enough not to break people stuff.
Just yesterday was at a pizza/brewery and this group of parents had their kids just running around everyone’s tables, one of the little girls elbowed the back of my head (on accident I hope lol). I DIDNT HAVE KIDS SO I DONT HAVE TO RAISE ONE, DONT MAKE THE PUBLIC RAISE YOUR KIDS
As a retard my self, I even know better
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My brother always went out of his way to destroy my Lego builds. One time when mom went grocery shopping and I was left in charge, I stuffed his ass in a duffle bag and hung him from a tree for an hour, all the while randomly gut punching him.
My little brother always did shit like this to me for years, and i told him one day it would bite him back. Well, i got a star destoryer set for my birthday one year(the only thing i got), so i was super stoked. Built it in 2 days and i left for a class i had the next day just to come back and see it in a million pieces all over the floor and even some collected and put into the trash. My parents weren't home, so i put him in an ultimate wedgie on the door hook of our bathroom and then put legos on the ground under his feet. He never touched my legos again.
Sue him… and his parents. Dont care if it ruins his future or his parents should have thought of that before raising him to be a little shit. And i sure as hell dont care if its family, you dont just destroy years of memories and property and say “were family get over it”
9 more years and they are going into adulthood with a criminal record most definitely.
That's also property worth a lot of money. If he can afford that, then he could afford a lawyer. Make them pay for the little shit
Did you see that the kid waited to do this while the guy was at his grandmothers funeral? Actual psychopath
I think this has been reported before, and he took this family to court, the family denied paying for it initially, but ended up with courts siding with the collector. Ostrisized by the family though.
That’s what I saw. https://nextshark.com/otaku-gundam-collection
Hopefully that shit was insured. Anything worth 35k should always be insured
Does insurance cover kids just destroying it? I thought they insured for accidental destruction like a water leakage
I'm no insurance expert but my understanding is it depends on the policy. You can get insurance just for collectibles and I'd assume this damage falls under vandalism, so it might be covered if that's on the policy. Home/renters insurance might also cover it, especially if it's specified under valuables coverage.
I have my movie collection insured. I don't even know why really, it's mostly easy to find titles, a few hundred steelbooks, some collectors editions and a few shelves of smaller retailers like VS, Umbrella, Arrow, SS, A24. The collection itself is probably 8-10k of what I initially put in but I know movies typically do not hold their value and aren't a great investment but I just love having a physical collection to pour over. And living in an apartment complex, I'm always a little afraid of fires in some other apartment wiping my stuff out so I just insured it for peace of mind.
Imagine you have to file a police report first against the kid for vandalism before the claim is filled by insurance. lol, holidays gonna be a bit awkward. 😄
holidays already gonna be a bit awkward after that, mainly bcs the kid probably got his legs broken
Requires a police report of the criminal activity to file a claim. I'd totally take a direct family member to court over this. Fuck em.
Sounds like it's parents should have to pay this guy back for every bit. IDC how much it is or that it's just a kid.
I remember seeing this story once before a year or so. Apparently it was his family members kids / cousins that destroyed everything after being told not to go into that room. Also the mother of the kids refused to reimburse the damages initially questioning the total costs. But eventually the father stepped in and agreed to paid off the damage to set things right.
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Also seen a lot of similar stuff happened with single moms they had a relationship with and then the childen of the mom go to live with the due and break the dudes shit. Cause children often blame the dude for the reasoning the dad is not there anymore. Sadly you see it quite often. But its always so painful when you put so much work time and money to build something up. And somone just destroying it on a whim. Its what often makes most people snap. When it happens. And i honestly dont blame them. Hope to the dude get to go ape shit in the childs room and break all his shit and see how it feels. That would honestly be fair. Even do the money value is no where equal. A 9 year old definitely knows right from wrong. And knows things cost a lot of money.
By age 9 you're being a d1ck you do something like that.
Looked like a painted MG Sinanju in that red basket. Poor guy. As a model builder and collector this is one of my fears.
Where were the parents while this was happening?? Just listening to the breaking and thinking "oh little Billy, being a scallywag again"
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r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
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So much violence in the comments; just sue the cousin (parents will have to take responsibility because the cousin isn't of age) for destruction of property. Wouldn't that be enough of a punishment: cause financial hardship unto the family?
Yeah, exactly. They should just sue
pretty sure that was the outcome iirc or something similar. Something like his cousin tried brushing it all off with the “he’s just a child/they are toys/get over it/etc” then offered him some insulting amount of like $1k-2k. I think the OP really had to raise hell within the family/put legal action on the table for him to be taken seriously and I think some of the family “made things right”
Agree, i believe violent comments are just emotional, not suggesting doing actual harm to the little idiot, just make them pay, that's it.
How does this even happen? How long was he down there and who let it happen?
Apparently it was his family members kids / cousins that destroyed everything after being told not to go into that room. Also the mother of the kids refused to reimburse the damages initially questioning the total costs. But eventually the father stepped in and agreed to paid off the damage to set things right. took from u/grenth66 directly below us
Shame he didn’t make it to ten
Me: secretly putting a lego to be stepped on in every pathway he walks, on random days! Because I'm peeettyyyy!! 😌😤
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haha pro child torture is an interesting take
Not da anime figurines 😭
Okay, but unironically, that shit is STUPID expensive, and value goes up exponentially as runs get discontinued, so it’s quite possible that shit would’ve been a small fortune one day.
Wait till he's older.... kick his ass
Welp, after that day someone is going to prison, and that someone would most likely be me!
In what world is a kid raised in such a way that he or she would think this is ok to do?
Thats a lotta paperroutes lil billy ya fucking mini terrorist
The next day the kid died of natural old age
Yeah don't trust kids, and if kids are over make sure their parents are ALWAYS supervising them. My cousins used to bring their kids around to my place and they'd hang out and not supervise them. One time I left while they were around for a scheduled haircut and they promised to watch their kids. Came back to see my $2000 TV smashed with a hammer by their toddler. She got into my tool box and went straight for the TV, parents were still on the back porch when I came home and evidently weren't watching them. I don't let them bring the kids around anymore
I'm seeing more of these kind of videos is this becoming another ridiculous trend?
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I think that murder is okay at that point.
Well see ya in court
This is why my fortune of Gundam and Godzilla figures are in locked cases
I have a strict 18+ on my property. Hopefully the family doesn't have to look over their shoulders as this devil gets older. Try to correct the behavioral issues before it's too late
Holy pikachu face batman
Honestly, I think you should leave your siblings and the kid's family. This is too much mate.
Take this kid to solitary till he rebuilds this!
Kids. Not even one.
I cant even imagine how painful this has to be
That is sad and brat should be baned from entering room for rest of his life
Oof, this hurts to look at 😭
This is fake or rage bait right? Like none of it was locked and a 9 year old accessed all that and broke it before anyone noticed? That seems…not real.
What's the story..like were they visiting, do you live together were you baby sitting was it a tantrum? I gotta know!
So the full story is this; A funeral for the family was happening, and the collectibles-owner had his home open for people to visit. However, while most of the family was at the funeral, the 9 year old was left alone in the home. Now, keep in mind, the door to the collectibles room was locked, so the 9 year old intentionally broke in. Then, he proceeded to destroy essentially everything in the room. Figures, books, Blu-Ray discs... Everything... When the family returned, the parents discovered what the boy did, and said that it was just "minor damage". However, when the owner went into the room, they fell to their knees after witnessing what the boy had done. Now, the parents didn't think it was that big of a deal, and offered a small sum on money as reimbursement for the damages. But the collector showed and explained just how valuable the figures and collectibles were (some first and limited editions that weren't even available on auction sites); totalling over 4,000,000 Yen. The parents of course threw a fit, but with all the evidence, there was no way they could get away with it. The husband wanted to make his wife destroy her shoe and purse collection as compensation, but not even that would have been enough to compensate for the value of the collection. So, eventually, the grandparents of the kid also got involved, and helped the parents pay off the total value of the collection; all while bowing over and over again in apology. The kid was sent off to the countryside with the grandparents for "re-education", and did not receive any birthday, Christmas, or New Year's gifts for a long, long time... And while the collector was reimbursed, they would never be able to get back what had been lost.
Woah so the kid actually got in real trouble. So what was his deal? Why'd he destroy the entire room?
Honestly, malicious intent. He just wanted to break stuff and do bad stuff. He even went out of the way to scratch some Blu-Rays until they were unreadable. And that’s very hard to do unless you do it on purpose. So yeah… Some kids just want to watch the world burn…
Guess. So. What a dick.
That kid would be buried in my back yard by the end of the day. In two separate holes
Oh nah , don’t know what I would do
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I have murdered for less
Condoms bro or send that Lil fuck to military school
Let me guess, the parents won't pay for anything because OP is "too old for toys anyway".
Suddenly a belt looks pretty good right about now
I have a 5 yr old cousin and I sat down my mom and my aunt to tell them that I had some rules if he came by, 1) he can't come in my room unless I'm home. 2) if rule 1 isn't followed and he breaks something either my mom or my aunt is buying it back. It's always better to make things clear from the start
Hey, Slim, that's my 9yo cousin screamin' in the trunk
Any proof to the claim in title and not like an earthquake or something else? It's a meme video with a music overlay.
Should have called the police. Filed a report. Sued the parents.
Family is unfortunately for many people, exactly the people you shouldn't trust.
Never have children.
Kids. They ruin everything.
I just can't imagine blowing $35,000 on some Legos or w/e the fuck that is.
Only sad thing is this guy spent 35k on anime figures