MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Re: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K

>Was in Walmart the other day. A customer broke a bottle of wine. They did not have to
>pay.

If the customer was doing something stupid like throwing bottle in the air while inside the store premises and trying to play catch with bottle, he probably would be paying.

The Kansas community center's security camera's videoclip shows child trying to grab on to the artwork instead of bumping into the artwork piece. Had it only been child bumping into the piece and it fell, the blame would likely be 50/50 on both community center and parents. If there is a civil trial with this, the jury might have sided with parents if child had accidentally bumped into the artwork. With child actually grabbing onto the artwork piece, the Kansas jury will side with community center and insurance company imo.

>These people who are bitching about her being a bad parent probably do not have
>children. I'm not saying it is OK to let your kids run free, but they do get free
>sometimes. In this case it wasn't for very long at all.

Granted the aired/edited newsclip doesn't show all of the parent's statement, but if the parent only blamed everyone else but themselves, I can see where the Kansas jury [if there is a civil case] will place all blame on the parent.

>Guess he likes tits and wanted a feel.

Which is why I made sure to copy some of those comments here. :-)

>If that piece of shit is worth $132,000, I'm surprised someone did not grab it and run out the door.

An artist's inflated ego value for such an item imo. If anyone tried to take that, they should wear a paper bag to avoid embarrassment for wanting to even take such item. Only interested clients wanting that object for their collection would be 5 year old boys just wanting that for......experimentation purposes.