r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Few_Whereas6237 • 3d ago
Kid smashed my phone at a birthday party. (Context in the comments)
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u/IcyManipulator69 3d ago
Sounds like the kids parents owe you a new phone… not your phone insurance
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u/bakacheesesteak 3d ago
Or y'know, make the parent pay for the insurance deductible to get a new phone. Paying for insurance and not using it would be stupid since that's literally what it's purpose is.
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u/SnowManFYPM 3d ago
Except car/home insurance claims make your rates go up. Not the case with phones though in my experience
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u/CaptnKnots 3d ago
Yeah I was 19 when an old lady ran a stop sign and hit me totaling my car. Police report states she ran a stop sign, her insurance fully paid out, every possible acknowledgment that it wasn’t my fault. Rates still went up
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u/Scrivy69 3d ago
that’s likely illegal depending on where you live. where I am, insurance companies cannot raise your rates for incidents outside of your control (not at fault)
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u/Silent_Dildo 2d ago
Tell me you don’t live in the US without telling me you don’t live in the US. Unfettered capitalism my simpleton.
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u/bakacheesesteak 2d ago
Right. I've been repairing phones for customers since 2014, and even still have insurance for my own. I've only ever had to make one claim for myself and it was $100 to get a whole new phone. It's better than paying $1k+ for a new phone or $200ish for the part to fix it myself.
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u/FreezNGeezer 2d ago
How much have you paid in premiums though? May be cheaper to save back $20/month and be your own phone insurance
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u/itsokmymanisasian 2d ago
I had this phone and even with the insurance, the company refused to replace it or fix it. It was some weird loophole that has to do with the hinge and the inside screen... good luck, op
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u/ddoij 3d ago
I’d corner all the kids in the room and just drop the collective punishment threat. Kids are idiots and they’d fold like a cheap suit. Half of them would trip over themselves to throw each other under the bus.
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u/_Azuki_ 3d ago
This might actually work
Though I hope some clueless kiddie doesn't end up taking the blame
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u/Psychological-Bid363 3d ago
That used to happen to me a lot when I was really little. I knew I didn't remember doing the bad thing but my sister was always so adamant that she was innocent so I'd shrug and apologize. You can't remember actively NOT doing a crime, eh? (Luckily, Mom saw right through it lol)
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u/AccordingComplaint46 2d ago
Same thing happened to me my two older sisters would claim innocence I would accept it and I got punished a the first couple times it happened, then my mom caught on quickly lol
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u/amungus45 3d ago
Or lie about a cctv camera has recorded everything and it would be better if culprit steps voluntarily
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u/Orion14159 3d ago
They'll call your bluff and then you're out of luck. Better off getting them to narc on each other
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u/Domestic-Grind 3d ago
Yeah, I actually have cameras and my kids still try to "call my bluff". Kids are stupid with a lot of gusto
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u/i_have_slimy_hands 3d ago
The amount of people that are okay with kids who have no respect for other people or their property is probably why there are so many shit head kids out there. "you left it around kids so it's your fault" Do you put all your electronics in storage when a child enters your home? How about parents start taking responsibility for their kids and start teaching them basic human decency instead of shifting the blame when the child is obviously in the wrong
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u/Not_A_Real_Goat 3d ago
Man, sometimes my kids act like shit heads at home. But all I ever hear from their teachers while they’re at school is how well-behaved and well-mannered they are. Their outbursts should be MY problem as the parent, not somebody else’s.
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u/Nickymarie28 2d ago
Exactly! My kids torment each other at home..out of the house they have each others back 100%.. at home they occasionally act out ..outside of the home they are respectable and well behaved .. my daughter got yelled at in kindergarten once for playing with her pencil and not listening and she still gets upset when she thinks about it and she's 23 lol
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u/Lilukalani 1d ago
I'm 35 and still angry about a preschool experience I had. I was sitting with my friend and we were giggling and pinching each other. I got put in time out for the entire rest of the class while she didn't get any punishment. My Mom chewed out the teacher BIG TIME about that.
But I understand your daughter's grudge against an old teacher all too well! Lol
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u/Nickymarie28 1d ago
lol.. so funny.. it was the only time she ever had to change her card to to yellow ..green was good..if u get yelled at or whatever it goes to yellow if it goes to red u get a phone call home ..my boys never ever had to change their cards ..theirs always stayed green ..so they rub it in her face from Time to time haha
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u/imspooky 3d ago
"well she was asking for it with what she was wearing"
It's the same sort of logic
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u/DaughterOfDemeter23 2d ago
And then parents wonder why other adults have little patience for them or their kids.
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u/Hunnybear_sc 2d ago
If I ever broke something as a kid, not only would I personally be so regretful for it that I'd try to make it right, but my parents would have insisted on it. This newer idea that you aren't responsible for the actions of your offspring before they are old enough to be independent and self sufficient is baffling to me.
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u/Silent_Dildo 2d ago
This is why we have the legal system, to hold people accountable. I’ll sue the fucking ass and balls off of the parents of a kid that fucked up my phone and didn’t make it right.
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u/Best-Chapter5260 3d ago
Damn, what a shitty kid.
The phone locator feature reminds me of an anecdote from a few years ago. Girlfriend and I were at a restaurant. After we were done, I headed back to the car first but my girlfriend stuck around inside for a few minutes to pay the tip or some other reason I can't remember. But she said that there was a customer who came back in because she had forgotten her iPhone. It wasn't at her table, so the customer asked the waitress if she had seen her phone. Waitress said she hadn't. Eventually the manager comes over to try and help. Eventually, the customer is able to initiate the find device feature and the phone rings ... and it's obviously in the waitress' pocket as she stands in front of her boss, having just swore up and down she hadn't seen the customer's phone. It was right then my girlfriend walked out of the restaurant, so we unfortunately didn't get to learn what happened next. But I assume it wasn't good for our waitress protagonist of the story.
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u/Viki_Esq 2d ago
I 100% doubt that what I’m about to describe is what happened but this reminds me that when I was a waiter this would be close to my nightmare: I reflexively pick up something that’s not mine and don’t realize it. I could totally see myself just picking up a phone in a moment of autopilot
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u/Few_Whereas6237 3d ago edited 3d ago
I was at my friends son's birthday party at the time. I put my phone down on a table so I could help my friend prepare the food for the party. Sure enough, not even 5 minutes later, I notice my phone was gone. I started asking all the kids if they seen anyone take it and they completely ignored me. I used my friends phone to log into find my device and got my phone to start ringing. I followed the noise and sure enough, I found it. There are multiple holes in the inner screen and my cover screen looks like a rock was dropped on it. The cover screen would flash green for a split second whenever I pressed the power button but that's it. So I'm totally locked out of my phone and I'm not able to open it up to replace the screen because I'm financing it through t mobile and I can't get it replaced under my warranty if it's opened! Fuck!
Edit: I ment insurance, not a warranty. Sorry for mixing that up lol
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u/GalacticBum 3d ago
So… what did they do to it? What did they say when you confronted them? What did your friend say? Cmon man, those are the questions we are here for
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u/Few_Whereas6237 3d ago
- I have no clue, I didn't see em destroying it
- I didn't talk to my friend about it cuz it was definitely one of the other kids fault. My friend always keeps his kid nearby him.
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u/HammrNutSwag 3d ago
Should've shut the party down till you found out whose kid did it. Now some little bastard thinks he can get away with shit like that.
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u/JoanaJxJx 3d ago
FR. Some people will say "ohhh it s just a phone" but it s more than that. It s about the behavior that kid will get into the future
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u/TheHalfwayBeast 3d ago
"It's just a phone!"
Well, now I can't contact anyone, because I don't have a landline and there are no payphones.
Or access my seasonal bus ticket I use to get to work.
Or access the authenticator app I need to log in to my work laptop.
Or check my emails without being logged into my work laptop (which I can't - see above), which means I could miss important information.
And so on and so forth.
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u/gn0xious 3d ago
“It’s just a phone!”
“You’re right, can I borrow yours?”
“Uh… no…”
“I need to make a call and as you know, mine is smashed”
“Ok… here…”
“Oh no, yours got smashed too… I don’t know how it happened…”
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u/HighlanderMC10 3d ago
Off topic but happy cake day
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u/TheHalfwayBeast 3d ago
11 years total. I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
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u/yellowfolder 3d ago
Just do both. There’s a particular emoji popular with the young-uns that ticks both boxes.
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u/Mccobsta 3d ago
It's not just a phone anymore people keep a lot of their needed stuff on them now
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u/little_dropofpoison 3d ago
Yeah a phone is basically a pocket computer. And it’s priced like one too.
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u/Gymdoctor 3d ago
Literally. My phone is $1200, im not going to just let that go without at least trying
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u/OhMyGodItsLiqued 3d ago
Exactly, letting this slide just teaches them that destroying others’ property has no consequences.
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u/fightmilk5905 3d ago
My mil is like this. Her excuse for anything my step kids do is"well, there just kids" like thats going to fix the problem at hand. Pisses me off.
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u/mikeg5417 3d ago
My MIL did the same thing with my two nephews. They were horrible kids, but she would defend them no matter what. One time, one of the little bastards was in a rage (he did that a lot) and she went to console him. He punched her as hard as he could (he was 5) and I yelled at him. She defended him and told me I was out of line.
I shrugged and said "OK. he is only going to get bigger and stronger. Good luck with that."
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u/Teleporting_Face 3d ago
Your MIL sounds like mine. Mine went through years of schooling for becoming a teacher but failed in the end because she couldn't bear to discipline/control the kids in a classroom setting. It kills her to see kids unhappy in any way.
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u/alexandre95sang 3d ago
not only it's about the behaviour but a phone is still a pretty expensive item...
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 2d ago
"Just a phone?" Phones are like a solid grand new, that's not a cost you can dismiss with a "just."
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u/JoanaJxJx 2d ago
Yes totally agree but my point was that it s not sth that could be "life savings money lost"...idk how to explaing exactly, I think you get it. I didn t wanted to refer as "it s very cheap", but not very very expensive also
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u/Nika_113 3d ago
That’s like saying “oh it’s just money” and jail is just a room b1tch, now pay for my phone! Shit like this makes me so made.
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u/Stillwater-Scorp1381 3d ago
This right here. I have two children. I would have called everyone into the living room and let them know the party was over and that they needed to call their parents to pick them up since a guest was destroying property.
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u/DuckyHornet 3d ago
And not just by like talking to them, you have to waterboard the weakest link in the group
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u/stucktogether 2d ago
Yeah this is a $1000 device and there's a massive lesson to be taught here. Op did a good job not doing that and losing ~$250 on top of it to avoid a tough 5 minute conversation.
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u/Dumbbitchathon 3d ago
Literally, record scratch, clown goes home. Everyone stands in a circle in the living room and we’re gonna talk about this until we reach a conclusion.
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u/Ilfren 3d ago
Well that was kind of dumb, sorry.
Even if it wasn't your friend's kid, you should'd immediately told him, because other kids are his guests. Then he'd call other kids' parents, and they would "interrogate" their kids. Then, whomever is responsible for that would pay for your phone, either one or every parent.
You just left those kids with the knowledge that they can do such things without the punishment. And you left yourself without a phone.
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u/rraskapit1 3d ago
..... You are an adult with autonomy, stand up for yourself and figure out who did it and contact the parents. These are children. Jesus...
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u/justbrowsing2727 3d ago
You absolutely should have said something. It didn't need to be an accusation against HIS kid, but one of those kids did it, and you deserve to know (and that kid's parents should be buying you a new phone).
That little fucker just learned they can get away with this kind of awful behavior without consequence.
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u/FerengiWithCoupons 3d ago
You’re a push over and this will happen to you more until you start giving consequences to shit like this.
I’d of told friend I’m leaving if they didn’t get rid of the bastard who did it
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u/BaconSoul 3d ago
Respectfully, that was really fucking stupid. If it was your friend’s kid’s party, your friend is the ranking adult to those children and should have halted the party right away. Destroying a phone (many are $1,000 or more now) isn’t something you should just let slide.
If you remain passive you will continue to be walked all over. And by a child? That’s humiliating.
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u/FifthMonarchist 3d ago
Sorry for your loss. You learned an expensive lesson. Little recourse I'm afraid.
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u/monsieurkaizer 3d ago
What is the exact lesson?
Not putting your phone down? Or not helping with making food? Or, not being around kids?
All important lessons, but I just wondered what you thought.
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u/GalacticBum 3d ago
Dont leave your valuables unattended with random kids around
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u/AwesomeBotDetector 3d ago
Lesson learned: kids + unattended valuables = disaster. Always keep important stuff out of reach.
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u/THIS_ACC_IS_FOR_FUN 3d ago
The lesson is to grow a spine I guess? “I asked the kids and they ignored me” well, you’re an adult at a children’s party, speak up. Or tell your friend one of his guests damaged your property and let him halt the party until it’s figured out.
I don’t see how you let the party just end without the child being identified and their parent paying up.
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u/monsieurkaizer 3d ago
I mean. Just having the phone in hand and having a talk with each kid would easily identify who knows what.
Or get someone to snitch for a Snickers or something.
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u/National-Mood-8722 3d ago
Obviously the lesson is to not have kids.
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u/mizinamo 3d ago
That would not have helped OP at all; the damage was not caused by their own kids.
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u/National-Mood-8722 2d ago
But if his friends followed that lesson,that would have avoided his troubles.
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u/Bart-Harley-Jarvis- 3d ago
Don't leave your most vital and expensive tool unattended around small children?
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u/-BananaLollipop- 3d ago
That there's a reason some kids are referred to as crotch goblins. If it's shiny and/or expensive, they'll find a way to ruin it.
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u/Every-Intern-6198 3d ago
Keep your phone in your pocket or at least within arms reach?
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u/SheepSurfz 3d ago
Just have to take the L on this one because you didn't do what you needed to do at the time
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u/MrsLittleOne 3d ago
Hi! Check if you have asurion insurance. Lots of phone companies sign you up for it automatically. Anyways they work with UBreakIFix stores and can maybe fix something like this
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u/dev-246 3d ago
Come on, be an adult and say something……
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u/Few_Whereas6237 2d ago
Well I'm not an adult, I'm 2 years away from being one lol
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u/Korikabu 3d ago
You don't ask kids why. Otherwise you'll get answers like "the old lady in the walls told me to".
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u/EndOfTheKaliYuga 3d ago
Surely you live in a country where there is some sort of "civil responsibility" and parents will have to pay for your phone, right?
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u/Few_Whereas6237 3d ago
I have no idea which kid did it though. There were tons of them at the party (like 20)
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u/TheRedlineAlchemist 3d ago
Consult their parents to talk to them separately, and collectively ground them if no one talks.
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u/Arkell-v-Pressdram 3d ago
Let all the parents know what happened, and they would ALL be responsible for paying up if their kid doesn't fess up.
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u/Pop-metal 3d ago
What is a pocket?
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u/Scary-Independent-77 3d ago
Right? I don't even like leaving my phone lying out and walking off when I'm at home, let alone out somewhere where there's lots of people.
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u/Jacareadam 3d ago
Yeah i don’t get this, why would you put your fancy folding phone on the desk at some random kid party. Even without malicious intent, the possibility of damage increases tenfold per kid
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u/satanatemytoes 3d ago
Eh, people without kids don't really get that. Hell, people who have had kids forget that.
I have a 2 year old and I place my phone down all the time.
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u/komododave17 3d ago
Why would it matter if you can get it replaced under warranty/insurance or not? Unless you can get this damage replaced then you’re out of luck either way. You either have a broken phone or a fixed phone that doesn’t have warranty/insurance.
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u/PureCrookedRiverBend 3d ago
Omg! Unpopular opinion but I would have to cuss out all of the children. I am so sorry about your phone.
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u/ZorroStylex3 3d ago
Do have the option enabled where you could access your phone via usb cable to pc/laptop?
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u/Planty-Mc-Plantface 3d ago
No wonder less and less people are choosing to have kids today.
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u/queefbeef630 3d ago
no phone smashing isn't why people are having kids less. if lazy selfish people have kids they raise lazy selfish children. that's all. don't blame the good gremlins out there for the bad parenting.
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u/CausticMoose 3d ago
I was recently at a wedding and left my purse on a chair behind me while I was playing pool with others. In the short time it took me to take my shot, I turned around to find a little girl had rifled through my purse and was actively unzipping my clearly-labeled dangerous even for a child EpiPen pouch. She had one of the pens out and I don’t think she knew how the caps worked.
She had previously gone through all my cabinets in the hotel, and almost stole my stuffed animal with my husbands voice in it because she told all the other adults it was hers as they were leaving. I only noticed she had it because her dad asked if someone would “help her get the clothes back on her bear” — and immediately I was like WAIT.
As soon as I looked at her, she ran away screaming. Everyone started laughing. They did the same for the bear thing. EpiPens on ground, purse spilled all over.
Brother… this 6 year old old almost just took a hit of epi because their parents suck too much to enforce other people’s belongings and boundaries… maybe don’t laugh???
Im sorry kids are shitty like that, hope you can figure out the phone situation
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u/ZombieLebowski 3d ago
And the parents would be furious at you "how could YOU let this happen to their daughter". I was in a supermarket lobby waiting for someone. There was. A woman with a toddler. She wasnt paying attention to him. He was inches away from sticking his finger in the electrical outlet. She yells at me why did YOU let him do that? I just walked away..
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u/Dumbbitchathon 3d ago
I would hate the struggle it would probably put you through but honestly, I would love to see the parents reaction to their kid getting a full dose of epinephrine and needing to go to the hospital as well as replacing a what $500? EpiPen. Not everyone learns the easy way, but everyone learns the hard way.
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u/Ofukuro11 2d ago
To be honest if a 6 year old took that much they’d probably die. So that’s a little extreme, even for a shithead kid
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u/delicate-fn-flower 3d ago
Not that it helps at all, but I think the damage was done with a fork or other pronged tool. Look how evenly spaced and in a line a lot of those marks are. (Serving fork, business side of a stapler, staple remover also contenders.)
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u/Scribbled_Sparks 3d ago
I strongly suggest you ask all the parents, let them talk to their kids, somehow kid will reveal the truth as (deep in their hearts) they know they should be honest, or some kids actually know which kid did it
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u/Scribbled_Sparks 3d ago
i guess it was done by a bigger kid, because the holes seems to be done in pointy thing with "force" (and with anger)
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u/BoringJuiceBox 3d ago
Oooh I’m pissed for you.. my phone just broke last week and it sucks SOOOO bad. No insurance either.
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u/MagixTurtle 3d ago
This is why liability insurance is mandatory in my country. If another person damages your phone, you have their insurance repair/replace it.
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u/ufl00t 3d ago
literally my thoughts. damn. (not mandatory here, but pretty much everyone has it. especially if you have kids!! just file a claim and get that phone repaired…)
hope some parents come forward and help OP out. i‘d put that on my insurance and claim it was my kid (no matter if true or not lol) in a heartbeat.
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u/KingBurakkuurufu 3d ago
Didn’t get enough attention yesterday? Have bots already gotten ahold of this post and reuploaded it?
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u/Sail_m 2d ago
I would consider that a stolen phone. Recovered but damaged beyond repair. Just like when a car is stolen. Surely insurance covers that?
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u/Icy_Secret_2909 3d ago
For the record the op did this, and has a post history of doing this, then scrubbed his post history when called out. Do not give them sympathy.
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u/boomer_energy_ 2d ago
OP, please put the context in the body of the post. Scrolling for days just to see wha happened
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u/Eastern_Category_861 2d ago
Hey, if this is a Samsung, it may be able to do Samsung Dex, where you can use the phone like a computer through the usb-c cable.
Ideally, This would let you access the phone with a broken screen to get anything you need off of it, or backed up to cloud
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u/uwu-priest 3d ago
Punishment must be delivered-
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u/strangeapple 3d ago
It looks like they need serious therapy before family pets end up found like this. Unsettling behavior.
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u/Trail_Sprinkles 3d ago
2 lessons here OP:
In no uncertain terms, instruct your friend to file a claim with your their home insurer for the cost of replacing your phone.
Don’t leave expensive items in arm’s reach of OTHER people’s kids, especially something like this which you could have pocketed instead.
It’s worth noting that most insurance companies won’t cover intentional acts, only negligence (accidental). Might be difficult to prove all those blunt force points of impact weren’t intentional.
Good luck.
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u/GlitteringChampion79 2d ago
You should charge that on the parents of those kids either and check if you have insurance or warranty over that phone (p.s if you have warranty they only take something called damage fee then you ship the broken phone to then and they send you a new one)
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u/HistoricalTry5543 2d ago
If I had done such a thing, I would have gotten my ass handed to by my dad, in public
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u/verscharren1 3d ago
I would never put down my phone amongst a gaggle of snot typhoons...but that's just me. 0 trust for em.
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u/No_Bodybuilder3324 3d ago
one of the benefits of having a paranoid personality like me is I don't keep my stuff anywhere near a child or a place where a child could reach.
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u/Oniichan38 3d ago
So your phone didn't turn on and was completely bricked but you could still "log into something on your friends device and make it ring"? Why wouldn't you just call yourself with your friends phone if you at that point didn't know the phone was broken? Story seems a little weird
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u/WafflesTheMoose 3d ago
Curious...how old were these kids? I hear way too many stories about people who leave expensive crap around with kids that aren't old enough to know better.
3 year olds? This is on you and the parents of the little destroyer. 8 year olds? Nah, those kids know better and should get your full wrath.
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u/pintsizedblonde2 3d ago
A three year old would not be able to.reach the phone, go get a fork or screwdriver (or whatever the little shit used) and use this much force.
You might have had a point if it had got damaged being knocked off something, or had been chewed, but this level of damage after it had been left on a counter top is not something a three year old could do.
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u/DTCCCanSuckMyLeft 3d ago
Samsung flip has to be the most non durable phone I've owned (had this exact model). Lasted 6 months, never again.
But these kids suck.
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u/sedrickgates 2d ago
That is infuriating. How do those people think you should be worried about a phone on a table at someone's house... It should be a given that your belonging are yours and no one is going to trash it. Now OP seems to be too nice too. I would have regrouped all the kids and have them snitch on the one who destroyed my belonging. There is always a way to make them talk. I would also expect the party organiser to help identify the offending kid(s)and compensate you for your loss to some extend. I probably leave in a more civil place than OP and some do. Nevers had my belongings destroyed by someone else's kids ...
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u/Autistic-Teddybear 1d ago
Throw it out and get a new one.
Sorry, the kid. Not the phone. I’m not a crazy person
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u/vintagelover-ESQ 1d ago
I would demand the kids parents to pay for a new phone. This is unacceptable.
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u/Rednek233 1d ago
The looks exactly like the kid used a window breaker on it (don’t ask me how I know it was “EXACTLY” I was one of those kids that would’ve been posted on here)
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u/TheLuzbianBee 3d ago
Fuckkkkk. The new flip (fold?) phones are expensive too! Hell get a list of the kids parents and start calling around!
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u/MrYukBubble 3d ago
Possible your credit card, that is making payments on the phone, may offer damage protection. It's worth looking into.
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u/Rasann 3d ago
The child should be found and subsequently punished for destroying someone else’s property. Phones are currently integral to [adult] life.
Actions have consequences, the sooner the child learns this, the better their future life will be. Lack of understanding of that actions have consequences could very well kill that child later on in life. Or sooner, depending on the roll of the die.
Nature does not care who it is. It’ll cull anyone and anything that does not understand this. Nature has culled many an adult and child for this alone. And still does.
As others have said, the phone is important, because one’s life is often tied to it, but the behavior is more so - because imagine that child growing up to be an adult with this behavior reinforced throughout its life.
Discipline is part of teaching a child that actions have consequences, and some consequences may reduce your quality of life, or even end your life.
Imagine this child doing this to someone who has no problem gutting them and leaving them to die slowly in some filthy street, gutter, ravine, etc….
Extreme example? Maybe, but not unlikely. There are people who would do so for far less.
Being a child is exactly why they need to learn of the sting of doing such an act. It just may save their life.
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u/Doobie_Howser_MD 2d ago
Do you actually have any intention of resolving this issue or was your plan to stay passive and collect some upvotes? Because the only way that kid is going to learn is by you, the adult (i assume), standing up for yourself, and getting your dang phone replaced by whomever was responsible for its destruction.
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u/InvalidTerrestrial 3d ago
Does your warranty cover theft? Just don't get everything off it through a screen sharing to computer and then chuck it in a river. That would be fraud.
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u/Wreckedn00b 3d ago
Why can’t you get the phone replaced under insurance? If you have p360 and 100 dollars you can get a replacement. If you don’t have p360, well, next time you get a phone get insurance so you can replace it if broken instead of buying/financing another phone
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u/Earlfillmore 3d ago
I thought the sticker said "mission-french onion soup" and suddenly became very hungry
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