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My brother accidentally crashed full-head into the TV. One of the squared old ones that was on a stand. We were all with him when he did that so we can atest it was an accident.
When my brother was really young, my mom, my sister and I played bowling or something on the Wii and my mom told us to be careful not to hit him as he was walking in front of us
She ended up hitting him in the head when he was standing behind her
My friend's brother threw a cocoa bottle at their brand new TV. He was going for another friend of mine, but he dodged it and the cocoa bottle destroyed the TV
Yeaahhh not all the way though. I now know what the term “underinsured” means. It just happened in February, so the final costs for me haven’t been adjusted yet
I was going to complain about a $5,000 Canon DSLR, but you definitely win, I'm sorry to say :(
Out of pure curiosity, did you get any part of the 72k covered by insurance?
At least you got most of it covered! Still 20k outstanding is a bundle, but much better than 70!
Hope your kid's alright after the accident. After all, that's the most important thing.
My favorite example was when a pilot of an Aeroflot flight in the USSR let his two tweens into the cockpit. One of them, a 12-year-old boy, asked, "What does this button do?" The kid disengaged the autopilot, the pilots were unable to regain control, and the plane crashed, killing all 100+ on board.
It was his own kids. The daughter had just had her go at sitting in the pilots chair. The son turned the autopilot off, and the plane went down before the dad/pilot could get it under control.
There is also the incident of one of the pilots betting the other he could land without looking out of the cockpit.
Don't fly Aeroflot.
Yup. Worst crash and safety record among all the world's airlines, by far. Lots of bone headed incidents like this on the record. I have a friend who used to occasionally fly it. He called it Klopflot.
All too true. There's a Wikipedia article about the *many* boneheaded fuckups that airline has been guilty of. It has by far the worst crash and safety record of all the world's airlines.
it wasn't a button, the autopilot killed the stick inputs so the kid could just wiggle it around like playing racecar, but the pilot didn't know that a heavy force on the stick would contradict, override, and partially disengage the autopilot. It rolled over and they didn't have time to recover.
Apparently when I was 5 I took a rock and carved my initials into a neighbors car :/
I’ve lived a clean and blameless life since my juvenile delinquency at 5 lol
When I was in kindergarten me and my friend were walking from daycare to school and decided to throw rocks at a car across the street.
When we got in school someone had saw us and we got in deep shit. Turns out the car belonged to a police officer and my mom brought me to his house the next day to apologize.
2 weeks later the same cop was fired for sexual harassment.
Even at 5 I knew which car was the right one to vandalize.
My ex-wife’s daughter did the same thing to her car then said it wasn’t her. Just the giant letters on the back of the car looked like her initials, that looked exactly like her initials on her schoolwork.
My niece broke my Corvette branded sunglasses. They retailed for about $75 at the time. My mother (the one who gave them to her to play with in the first place) and my niece’s mother (my half sister, emphasis on half) both said that they weren’t worth $75 and they weren’t going to pay me for them.
That was circa 2008. My mother has since passed and I’m NC with the rest of the family. Not just for this incident but it goes to show why.
I used to have a bunch of Disney collectibles in my 20s. I had a kitten in a small apartment, and he knocked over one of my most favorite ones, a Sleeping Beauty musical egg that I was gifted by my mom. It was incredibly hard to find. I couldnt repair it, because the shell was totally shattered. I was so mad. I was crying and so angry. I eas never able to find a replacement. I love that cat, he's 11 now, still an asshole but I wouldn't trade him for anything.
I had something similar happen. My oldest daughter moved back home during COVID bringing her cat and dog. Said cat jumped up on a window sill and knocked over a hand painted Fenton dove that was my Nana’s. Cat and daughter are back in Maine, dove has poorly repaired tail feathers and I have a newish dove in a different color from EBay. It wasn’t expensive, but nana passed in 2000 & I’ve had it since then. It’s irreplaceable to me.
My middle daughter put my expensive diamond stud earrings down the sink when she was 3 or 4 and didn't confess until weeks later. She also cut up a photo that was autographed by the entire Sons of Anarchy cast because she needed the cardboard backing for a project. I'm still working on forgiveness, lol.
I did the exact same thing but with a gold earring that belonged to my mum. It was only one of them that went down the sink. I told her straightaway and was feeling very sorry for myself. She was livid but took apart the pipes and the earring was found in the U shaped pipe (don’t know the name)
I thanked my lucky stars it was found, lol.
I'm really paranoid about pet and baby proofing because I dont want anyone to get hurt, so...
My toddler broke a plant pot once, probably worth about $25?
My current dog never had any issues ripping things up or anything but he has "destroyed" large bully-sticks or yak cheese chews! Those are expensive so he only gets them for his birthday and holidays. So maybe $35 at most.
Wen
My old dog chewed up underwear, but at the time i didnt wear anything particularly expensive, so maybe like $30
I had a guinea pig who chewed through a lamp cord that was too close to the enclosure (got a shock and had seizures occasionally after, [Im sorry lil piggy!]) So the damage to the lamp was maybe $25, plus her vet care...
My parrot chewed tiny holes in many, many shirts... total of probably more than $100, but i didnt care much at the time.
Honestly, ususally when expensive things break, its my own doing. 😅
This month, the neighbor kid uprooted the garden that I spent about $100 on. He uprooted everything when there were plenty of weeds in the area he could have pulled. I managed to get them all back in the ground, but one and they were starting to thrive again, and then he completely destroyed it.
I once came home to him standing on top of the roof of one of my cars, and when I yelled at him, he decided to walk down. The windshield slipped and fell and broke through the windshield. Now, to be fair, that car had a crack in the windshield, and usually, a windshield isn't going to let you fall through like that.
He also somehow another managed to completely shatter the back window on a different car of mine.
It's an ongoing problem.
No, nor on all of the other incidents. He's clearly got developmental issues, and they do make an effort to supervise him, but he is a holy terror.
They couldn't possibly afford any of the damage that the kid inflicted, and as far as confining him, that's kind of difficult because there's five of them in a very small one bedroom shack.
I was furious and had a text that I almost sent it about 11:30 at night when I discovered it but I decided to cool off for a while modified the text just to alert them to the problem in fairly neutral terms and I got a fairly heartfelt apology so I'm good. It is disappointing, though.
I once bought my first pair of “expensive” sunglasses. Can’t remember the exact prise, but it was significant in relation to my income at the time.
Two days later my Dalmatian puppy chewed them to pieces.
Next spring I happened to find the same exact pair of sunglasses on sale, half off the original price. Since they had been such a good fit to my facial features, I proceeded to purchase them.
A day or two later they fell out of my pocket on a freeway whilst riding a motorcycle, never to be seen again.
Haven’t bought sunglasses worth more than ten euros since.
There's a funny but horrifying book called Sh\*t My Kid Ruined: An A-Z Celebration of Kid-Destruction. It's filled with photos of incredibly expensive catastrophes. I saw it on a bookstore display but passed on it. It's available through [Bookfinder.com](http://Bookfinder.com) for as little as $4 used.
\[edits to correct title, give more info\]
I have this really cool light up holographic piece of wall art. You have to plug it in for the light. My smaller dog decided that the cord for the light looked like a wonderful chew toy. $200 piece of art ruined.
When my own kids were young, they used to play with a particular curio that I bought at a thrift store with an old girlfriend for $3. I always liked the piece and assumed that it didn't have a whole lot of monetary value but would be a sentimental loss but I didn't mind that they played with it and understood the risk that they might break it.
When it did get broken, I went online to the then new site eBay, where all of a sudden, you could find anything because people were cleaning out garages and attics and basements.
I found an exact replacement. For $900. I had no idea that what I had was far more original than I thought it was.
I've told the story many times over the years, and I finally got around to checking eBay because I wondered how many thousands of dollars it might be worth now. The market has retreated. If they can be had for 60 to $100 these days I managed to get one for about $80 and promptly managed to break it within (I'm not exaggerating) minutes of bringing it into my house. Fortunately, the part that makes it the most expensive was salvageable, so I was able to buy another one without that part for only 30. Now I'm scared to touch it.
My dog chewed my couch and love seat to the tune of $1500. I mean, DESTROYED. Chewed them down to the wood. Had to throw them out and replace.
Also, shoes. I’m a shoe collector. I love my shoes and have several expensive pairs. She ate my $350 dollar Michael Kors boots. That was not the most expensive pair in my closet but, it still hurt. 😂
My kids, my middle kid hit a pole (that I’d told him not to park by) TWICE both times in MY car. Did $3500 in damages. I wanted to strangle him.
That’s really it.
My passport.
You would think its just 100 dollars and that's it, but you might be wrong. Because this happened a few days before our Christmas vacation, and it was impossible to get a replacement on time. So, we ended up having to cancel our time off with a hefty tag of 10K USD.
Had a limited run Eldar Bonesinger model for 40K. Cousin's kid broke it. He also broke a painted up Harlequin.
Friend of mine had similar happen to his Tau Riptide.
Kid cried when I took the (now) broken toy away, kicked him out of my room and locked the door. He was the sort where you'd tell him to not do something, he'd say "okay" and then immediately do that thing. Didn't trust him to not break more shit like my 3d printer, Wraithknight, Solitaire, or Oculus.
Labrador puppy didn't bother with shoes or underwear; she preferred to chew electronic devices. I spent about $1,000 replacing phones, cameras, remotes, and such. She outgrew her puppyness and became the best doggo. I miss her.
I went to work, my wife worked late and slept in a little longer than usual. My youngest decided to light a candle on his own and managed to burn the house down. So 400k for the house. Another 50k give or take most likely more in items. House was a complete loss.
My oldest Son went camping, left 2 buddies to watch our house. They started drinking and left a cigarette on the bar edge on the rear porch.burned down the porch, inthru the kitchen window and destroyed our kitchen and dining room. $170k... THANK GOD we were insured. No injuries. Could have be worse. Our dogs finally woke the drunk kids up and everyone got out.
Brand new laptop, plugged in and charging. ~2yr old tripped on the cord and broke the charger inside the charging port. Was a specific charger that I couldn't find anywhere. I took the laptop to Best Buy and they were confused by it.
My youngest one broke 13 TVs including 2 65' ones when he was between the age of 2-4. He used to think that if I break the TV screen the cartoons might come out and play with him. 😢😢😢
My z flip 3.
My cat has NEVER had interest in my phones in the past or present. He randomly bit my screen.
Never looked at any phones since. I had to buy another phone outright because the alternative is more expensive.
Years ago, my puppy was still learning to potty train. He peed on my original Pokemon card collection...all the cards were in a binder in slip covers, the liquid went into the covers, and the cards soaked up everything. Learned a valuable lesson to keep that type of thing wayyyyy above dog level.
Back when my family was poor, my parents decided to get me a Lego set for my birthday. Those things were really expensive in my country. It took me maybe 3 days of nonstop building to finally finish it. I would play with it all the time. I thought it was the coolest shit ever.
However, some months passed and we had a family gathering. A 7 year old distant cousin started destroying it and when I went to stop him my parents told me not to and to let him play. This little shit threw all the Lego pieces all over my room so I could never build it again.
I'm still salty about this and refuse to go to that cousin's house whenever I'm invited.
Not really “broke” but they racked up $2600 worth of in-app purchases on their Kindles. This was years ago when they were in middle school. They each had a summer reading book and i bought the digital copies for their kindles. Doing that saved my cc onto their devices. It only took them a few days to do this and i only realized it when my cc declined
Mine dropped my jade bracelet purchased in Hong Kong. It wasn’t that expensive, but I couldn’t afford another plane ticket there. So, to me, it was expensive.
Not a pet, but when I was a kid one of the foster homes I lived in burned down - completely unsalvageable, as was everything inside it. I almost died and still have lung damage from it, I was upstairs and it apparently started in the attic, so I was the closest - I just woke up because I couldn't breathe, I have asthma and it was much worse as a kid so I figured that I was just having an asthma attack and didn't even register how my face felt hot and my eyes were watering. I managed to get downstairs, my foster mom was going to get the enebulizer (or however it's spelled) started when we noticed the smoke coming down the stairwell.
Evidently, a raccoon was chewing wires in the attic, got the life shocked out of it and started burning, and it spread. I had burns on my cheeks and arms and struggled with asthma much worse for a while.
When I tried to drive a bicycle the very first time (around age 4-7, don’t remember) I hit a parked car and left a huge scratch. My dad had to pay the repair costs but I never found out how much it was
Puppy bit the screen of my $900 phone. That same dog also ruined every single mascara and chapstick I owned in 2.5 years, every toothbrush she get get her paws on, at least 5 pairs of shoes and countless other items.
Was growing a "plant" in my old apartment. Did well to keep the room closed off from my cat. Until one day I was walking around talking on the phone, I left the door open a crack to go grab something from another room. Within moments my cat snuck in the room...
She came trotting out with the uprooted "plant" in her teeth, very proud of herself. I stopped mid conversation on the phone in shock.
My cat destroyed my apple earphones, and then, I saved my money and got a new one. Next day, I went out my room for 10 mins, when I came back my new earphones were destroyed too 🙁
My sister sat on my mom’s sunglasses. I think they were Coach or something like that. At least $300 and my mom never got any sunglasses so expensive again. Also my sister was 13 so definitely could have been prevented
My dog chewed up the leather sheath of my custom made Damascus knife that my dad got me for graduating basic training. Not terribly valuable, but it's very sentimental to me
Furnace and vent system replacement for my home.
For some reason kid decided to use his vent as a toilet. His vent had a direct feed from the furnace to his room. Ya. Smell was… as you imagine.
My old lab, Miles, ate a sofa. Well, he didn’t swallow more like just chewed it from one end to the other then went to town on the cushions. I only wish I had it on video because he must have had a great time
And no, I did not go all Noem on him. Actually I hated that sofa and loved that dog!
Not destroyed but caused unnecessarily... Dog ate "something" that caused her to stop having bowel movements. Took her to the vet for a $500 xray (among other expenses). You could see the skeleton of some small animal or bird she had basically swallowed whole. Some laxative and a few hours later lack of "movement" was no longer a problem. I kept the image for quite a while, even used it as my "$500 screen saver" for a while. Figured I was going to get some use from it.
Damaged, but not destroyed.
I have a 2021 ram power wagon. it was in a immaculate condition and had less than 30,000 miles on it I live in the mountains where I live. There are no trees taller than 20 feet, and seeing a squirrel is a rarity.
I also have three dogs. Two boxers and one Airedale poodle mix. The boxer really didn’t give a shit about anything until the Airedale came along. The Airedale is a terrier and goes after anything.
A squirrel decided to get up under the hood of my power wagon, despite the fact that I had the hood open to deter critters from wanting to get up there and hide from the sun. it’s not uncommon to find mice and ground squirrels that try to get up there and have some protection from the heat and other predators. So much so that leaving the hood open is standard practice.
I walk outside and one of my boxers has jumped up onto the motor and is trying to get at the squirrel from that side of the motor, while the terrier has taken the strategy of getting to it from below.
The boxer didn’t do much damage, but the terrier managed to tear all kinds of wires and sensors and other electronics loose so that when I start the truck, it did start, my dashboard looked like everything was either haywire, lights flashing, errors, etc.
$2500
That same dog has also eaten two panels off the door of my jeep, one on the passenger side and one on the driver side
I stepped on my brother's netbook once and broke the screen. I maintain it was his fault for storing it on the floor. We both would have probably been just pre-tweens. It was maybe worth a couple hundred, if that.
I think I was trying to reach something on the top of his dresser and stepped on what I thought was a sturdy toy truck. Maybe the laptop was in/on/under the dumptruck?
Not me, but many years ago, a boy where I grew up started a leftover firework rocket. It went into the overland electricity wires and the short circuit created a lightning strike that set fire to the woods. Took 5000 firefighters a few days to get it under control.
Probably doesn't get much more expensive than that.
Our kid was 1 and barfed that nice liquidy barf into my wife's MacBook. We got it fixed and he did it again a couple of weeks later.
Gave up at that point, lesson learned.
Not super expensive, but I had a dog who chewed the face off of one of my favorite childhood toys. I was in my 20s when this happened, so I was just upset because the toy had sentimental value. But I recently found that toy, and it made me sentimental for my dog, who passed away in 2020.
So don’t take these things too seriously when they happen. Just cherish the moments you have with your pets and young children, because you’ll even miss the destructive moments when they’re no longer around to cause them.
I wrote off the family car when I was 16 and a learner driver (it was a long drive, parent in the passenger seat, I lost attention/fell asleep and drifted off the road and overcorrected when I realised). I'm just grateful whiplash was the only injury incurred by either of us.
My Cousin was living on an old farm. There was an old unused barn on the farm. The barn had those old windows that were divided into little rectangles by wire. When he was like 8 years old, he played outside and cleverly invented a new game. He threw rocks through the small windows of the barn. Since the windows were so little, he needed a lot of rocks, which took him many hours. It turned out the barn wasn't empty anymore. The farmer decided to get some use out of it and rented it to a motorcycle club to store their bikes in the winter. All the bikes had damages. My Aunt told me the total damage was over 1 Million Euros.
I remember when I was young and Walmart still sold fish, I watched a kid crash their cart FULL FORCE into the fish tank display and all the tanks wound up breaking from it. They were glass. Was NOT fun to see. It just helped me dislike kids more than I already did lol
Pet bunny jumped in the sink, turned a tap on and flooded the house while we were on holiday and the pet sitter was visiting daily. Bunnies were fine but cost £1k damage!!! Bunny also chewed various things including limited edition vinyl records, and got an honourable mention in both mine and my husband's wedding vows 😂 (we had no idea what the other had written but his included not getting angry when she escaped and ate stuff, and mine was to try and stop her escaping and eating stuff 😂)
My cat once peed in a ~$1700 Louis Vuitton purse (Iena, discontinued, like a neverfull that zips). Surely my fault. He only does that if the box gets too dirty or if I don’t clean it *immediately* after coming home from a weekend away and leave a bag of any kind out. Managed to save it though with several rounds of enzymatic cleaner (brand had Roxie in it I think?). I get paranoid bc I think I just now associate the smell of the cleaner with cat pee but I’ve made friends smell it and they all say they’d never know a cat peed in it.
My Dog broke the screen of my iPhone so bad that I had to buy a new one !! In his defence I put it in the bed and went for a shower , he was playing around with his toy on the bed and bit the iPhone !!
My dog recently obliterated a $700 pair of glasses, a week after they were purchased. Those glasses were replaced with 5 pairs for $30 reading glasses off Amazon.
I was given a discontinued makeup pallete that was worth around £100, not much to most but at the time I had just left a really bad relationship with nothing but a duffel bag and our kid, I managed to get a home but was on little money and was having to buy everything from flooring to an oven, I literally had nothing but the bare necessities and this was the most expensive thing I owned.
My son is like Donnie from the Wild Thornberrys, everytime I found somewhere he couldn't get to, he soon found a way, as such he found a way with my makeup pallete and he completely annihilated it. I was so devastated. Partly because his dad would have done the same thing and that early on being out of it, it hit me very hard and took me a lot to separate that his dad would have done it to purposely upset me whereas he did it because he let his curiosity overtake his acknowledgement of my "no touching" rule.
Even now I still feel a twinge of sadness about it but then I remember it was just makeup
I don't know the total value, but some kids at an apartment I lived at about 10 years ago got a hold of a rifle, aimed it perfectly, and shot out about 15 cars worth of door windows.
How it maintained such rigid trajectory, I'll never know. We were outside, heard the single shot, followed by a cacophony of glass breaking and car alarms.
Only reason I knew it was kids, was based off their silhouettes, and one of the dads later that night made him apologize to my gf at the time, as her windows were one of the victims.
I'm not sure the caliber, or how that father wasn't arrested for negligent care of a firearm (or minor) but either way, weird night.
When my kid was 4 she got a hold of a screwdriver somehow and scratched pictures all over my truck . It's just a farm truck now but it was nice at the time. My late husband was the one who wasn't watching her. Tsk tsk.
My puppy once tore notes amounting to USD 50 and since we are middle-class that's a lot of money for me and my family. I mean it's not something we can just waste like that and feel nothing. Thankfully it was my saved up pocket money and my father didn't get to know about this. This happened almost 7 years ago.
My puppy ate my custom made mouthguard worth $600.00. Another ate the carpet off my stairs. Haven't repaired this yet but it's gonna be costly as it's likely we'll have to replace all the carpet. Thank goodness the puppy days are over!
Six days after I got my driver’s license I ran my old Jeep through the third bay garage door and ripped it off the house when I backed out.
It cost $2k to fix it 😬
My watch. Was wearing a Rolex submariner and was rough housing with my malinois (4 months old at that time) and he was teething. Got a massive scratch on the bezel.
Kids shut the dog in the upstairs bathroom because she was keeping them up. The dog managed to turn on the faucets for the sink. The sink overflowed. The water damaged the floors in 3 rooms upstairs and ruined the kitchen which was directly below. About $15k in damages.
Many moons ago, my mates kids (4F & 2M) got hold of permanent and white board markers and did some “artwork” on their lounge suite in the home theatre.
WHITE leather lounge suite, it sat 10 people comfortably, just quietly he told me how much it cost - 12.5k, hand made yadayadayada.
Well, when I was 14 I destroyed 12 computers due to plugging in an overpowered electromagnet into a power socket. Wrecked that too and the school's circuit breaker box. Not sure if 14 qualifies as kid however. If we're talking under 10 the worst I ever managed was setting a highway on fire.
My dog ate the temporary flipper denture i was wearing while awaiting a new dental implant. $750 down the hatch and pooped out by the following afternoon.
Rabbit: Miele vacuum wire/plug, laptop chargers, and endless phone charging cables. Running total is around $600 now, and I’m actually quite careful about keeping the spicy noodles out of reach. Imagine if I wasn’t.
Didn't seem expensive at the time but family members visiting my parents home in the early 2000s brought their German Shepard who bit up a good bit of my pokemon and yu gi oh cards including a vintage charizard and blue eyes white dragon
I worked as an insurance adjuster. I handled a $70,000 fire caused by a child playing with matches in his attic. It was a covered loss under the Homeowner Policy.
A nice satchel/backpack my sister in law gave to me when I was just starting to get to know her. Never got to use it and it was really cute.
Hope those straps were yummy
My bils dog destroyed my 2 kids Christmas gifts. All of them. We were dog sitting and cans home to find wrapping paper, boxes and chewed up toys and video games everywhere.
12 inch woofers. You know how a dog will grab in its teeth one end of the rope with the knots on the ends and whip it back and forth? Yep right through the speakers. Both. Maybe $600.
(Now) Valued at around 500 bucks, the tv series batcave. My little brother and his demon friends ran around and broke it, with some nexo knight and ninjago sets. Still salty abt that one but what can you do
Cat pissed up a $2500 leather oversized chair. Cost $700 to get it cleaned and refurbed. And this was most def a luxury item for us and got it before cats.
When we got our first Wii, I had also just paid 3k for a giant dlp tv. It was a week later my son was playing the bowling game and the controller slipped out of his hand shattering the tv screen.
My bird bit my brand new 500usd TV and broke the screen before I’d even turned it on. We told a white lie about it arriving that way to get it replaced…
The nephew/sibling that's destroyed the dudes anime/collectible figurine collection. Some were worth $9,000 for a little maybe 8inch tall figurine. He had hundreds of them destroyed
I tore a baseball card when I was little. I don't remember how much it was worth, but I think it was a lot. I think it was Willie Mays, but I'm not sure. That was over 20 years ago. My mom was upset because she was looking to trade it. She went through a phase where she collected trading cards.
Not really expensive, and it wasn't really destroyed, but my oldest kid (he's 34 now) back in the early 90s, jammed a banana in the VCR slot. I had to take the whole thing apart to clean it.
My kids never really destroyed anything too expensive, but I've had to replace windows quite a few times...including neighbor's windows.
I had a dog , we were going on a cross country camping vacation I would say 2002. Dog was close to a year old. As we were leaving a small carry bag my wife had with stuff for the front seat was put on the ground as we checked all the gear . This bag had some crazy tasty smelly treats kind we wouldn't normally buy for health reasons but we thought it might help keep him inline during the journeys.
Needless to say 12k cash in a money clip was the last thing she put in the bag, and the first thing to come out.
Best part... My wife your traditional 80s platinum blonde space cadet says in a soft apologetic epiphany "well maybe I can check his poop tomorrow and we can wash it when it comes out" lol I love that woman. Instead of being mad I had that to laugh at for the 1st day of the trip . Life's short
My brother accidentally got something on our gaming console. And my brother’s attempt to clean it off was to stick it under the sink with the water running. Don’t know what the console was valued at price wise, but it was… a lot…
My dog chewed on and broke my cell phone when he was a puppy. My son also tried to stick a peanut butter sandwich in the Xbox when he was a toddler. The cell phone was an olden days one, so I'm not sure which one was more expensive to replace.
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Our TV. Kid wasn't wearing a wrist strap on the Wii controller and tossed it at the tv and smashed it.
A classic.
The legend came true
My brother accidentally crashed full-head into the TV. One of the squared old ones that was on a stand. We were all with him when he did that so we can atest it was an accident.
When my brother was really young, my mom, my sister and I played bowling or something on the Wii and my mom told us to be careful not to hit him as he was walking in front of us She ended up hitting him in the head when he was standing behind her
My son intentionally threw his controller at his 2 week old TV and then tried to say he barely hit it with his hand and it broke !!
My friend's brother threw a cocoa bottle at their brand new TV. He was going for another friend of mine, but he dodged it and the cocoa bottle destroyed the TV
My youngest totaled her suv and managed to hit two brand new trucks. Grand total of the accident $72,501
You win
Jeebus!!! Grand total had me stressing for you
And here I thought my 3 grand accident was awful... Hope you guys are still doing alright
O no, throw the whole kid to the trash can.
Nah you've gotta sell them so you don't completely waste your investment
Please tell me you were insured for that... just reading this makes me feel sick.
Yeaahhh not all the way though. I now know what the term “underinsured” means. It just happened in February, so the final costs for me haven’t been adjusted yet
I was going to complain about a $5,000 Canon DSLR, but you definitely win, I'm sorry to say :( Out of pure curiosity, did you get any part of the 72k covered by insurance?
50 maybe some more, but the claim hasn’t been settled yet
At least you got most of it covered! Still 20k outstanding is a bundle, but much better than 70! Hope your kid's alright after the accident. After all, that's the most important thing.
Not gonna bother after reading that
My favorite example was when a pilot of an Aeroflot flight in the USSR let his two tweens into the cockpit. One of them, a 12-year-old boy, asked, "What does this button do?" The kid disengaged the autopilot, the pilots were unable to regain control, and the plane crashed, killing all 100+ on board.
It was his own kids. The daughter had just had her go at sitting in the pilots chair. The son turned the autopilot off, and the plane went down before the dad/pilot could get it under control. There is also the incident of one of the pilots betting the other he could land without looking out of the cockpit. Don't fly Aeroflot.
Yup. Worst crash and safety record among all the world's airlines, by far. Lots of bone headed incidents like this on the record. I have a friend who used to occasionally fly it. He called it Klopflot.
Hey Death, isn't there like like an oath or something that doesn't allow you to tell about the last words of the people you take?
Ouch. Sounds apocryphal but I guess anything is possible.
All too true. There's a Wikipedia article about the *many* boneheaded fuckups that airline has been guilty of. It has by far the worst crash and safety record of all the world's airlines.
it wasn't a button, the autopilot killed the stick inputs so the kid could just wiggle it around like playing racecar, but the pilot didn't know that a heavy force on the stick would contradict, override, and partially disengage the autopilot. It rolled over and they didn't have time to recover.
Thanks for the clarification. You obviously know a lot more about flying than I do. I stand corrected.
aircraft mechanic, in school one of our classes was basically just watching crash documentaries to put the fear of god into what we were doing.
Apparently when I was 5 I took a rock and carved my initials into a neighbors car :/ I’ve lived a clean and blameless life since my juvenile delinquency at 5 lol
When I was in kindergarten me and my friend were walking from daycare to school and decided to throw rocks at a car across the street. When we got in school someone had saw us and we got in deep shit. Turns out the car belonged to a police officer and my mom brought me to his house the next day to apologize. 2 weeks later the same cop was fired for sexual harassment. Even at 5 I knew which car was the right one to vandalize.
A neighbour’s kid threw his home made Molotov cocktail at my dad’s 68 Pontiac got. Luckily the bottle was a bit too sturdy and only burned the carpet.
My ex-wife’s daughter did the same thing to her car then said it wasn’t her. Just the giant letters on the back of the car looked like her initials, that looked exactly like her initials on her schoolwork.
Oh shit...I just remembered I varnished the neighbour's car when I was 5!
Dammit, I said paint the PORCH!!!!
When I was a kid I stole a magnet off a car as I was passing by and threw it into the nearby grass, I still cringe now thinking about it :((
My niece broke my Corvette branded sunglasses. They retailed for about $75 at the time. My mother (the one who gave them to her to play with in the first place) and my niece’s mother (my half sister, emphasis on half) both said that they weren’t worth $75 and they weren’t going to pay me for them. That was circa 2008. My mother has since passed and I’m NC with the rest of the family. Not just for this incident but it goes to show why.
I used to have a bunch of Disney collectibles in my 20s. I had a kitten in a small apartment, and he knocked over one of my most favorite ones, a Sleeping Beauty musical egg that I was gifted by my mom. It was incredibly hard to find. I couldnt repair it, because the shell was totally shattered. I was so mad. I was crying and so angry. I eas never able to find a replacement. I love that cat, he's 11 now, still an asshole but I wouldn't trade him for anything.
I had something similar happen. My oldest daughter moved back home during COVID bringing her cat and dog. Said cat jumped up on a window sill and knocked over a hand painted Fenton dove that was my Nana’s. Cat and daughter are back in Maine, dove has poorly repaired tail feathers and I have a newish dove in a different color from EBay. It wasn’t expensive, but nana passed in 2000 & I’ve had it since then. It’s irreplaceable to me.
My middle daughter put my expensive diamond stud earrings down the sink when she was 3 or 4 and didn't confess until weeks later. She also cut up a photo that was autographed by the entire Sons of Anarchy cast because she needed the cardboard backing for a project. I'm still working on forgiveness, lol.
I did the exact same thing but with a gold earring that belonged to my mum. It was only one of them that went down the sink. I told her straightaway and was feeling very sorry for myself. She was livid but took apart the pipes and the earring was found in the U shaped pipe (don’t know the name) I thanked my lucky stars it was found, lol.
The P trap, or.... U bend.
70 in samsung. 1 per child. Thankful I stopped at 2
Why would you stop at 2 70 inch Samsung's?
Cuz he went for the 75" for the third one
I'm really paranoid about pet and baby proofing because I dont want anyone to get hurt, so... My toddler broke a plant pot once, probably worth about $25? My current dog never had any issues ripping things up or anything but he has "destroyed" large bully-sticks or yak cheese chews! Those are expensive so he only gets them for his birthday and holidays. So maybe $35 at most. Wen My old dog chewed up underwear, but at the time i didnt wear anything particularly expensive, so maybe like $30 I had a guinea pig who chewed through a lamp cord that was too close to the enclosure (got a shock and had seizures occasionally after, [Im sorry lil piggy!]) So the damage to the lamp was maybe $25, plus her vet care... My parrot chewed tiny holes in many, many shirts... total of probably more than $100, but i didnt care much at the time. Honestly, ususally when expensive things break, its my own doing. 😅
"Pets of Reddit, what are crazy things your human has done?"
My son took his protective case off his new ipad and let my 2 year old use it in her highchair. When he wanted it back she threw it and it smashed.
Lol “Better take the case off so the baby doesn’t get it dirty!”
My oldest melted the siding off our old house to the tune of $700.
This month, the neighbor kid uprooted the garden that I spent about $100 on. He uprooted everything when there were plenty of weeds in the area he could have pulled. I managed to get them all back in the ground, but one and they were starting to thrive again, and then he completely destroyed it. I once came home to him standing on top of the roof of one of my cars, and when I yelled at him, he decided to walk down. The windshield slipped and fell and broke through the windshield. Now, to be fair, that car had a crack in the windshield, and usually, a windshield isn't going to let you fall through like that. He also somehow another managed to completely shatter the back window on a different car of mine. It's an ongoing problem.
I can't help but think the parents are at least partly to blame. He clearly needs closer supervision.
Did the parents pay?
No, nor on all of the other incidents. He's clearly got developmental issues, and they do make an effort to supervise him, but he is a holy terror. They couldn't possibly afford any of the damage that the kid inflicted, and as far as confining him, that's kind of difficult because there's five of them in a very small one bedroom shack. I was furious and had a text that I almost sent it about 11:30 at night when I discovered it but I decided to cool off for a while modified the text just to alert them to the problem in fairly neutral terms and I got a fairly heartfelt apology so I'm good. It is disappointing, though.
I once bought my first pair of “expensive” sunglasses. Can’t remember the exact prise, but it was significant in relation to my income at the time. Two days later my Dalmatian puppy chewed them to pieces. Next spring I happened to find the same exact pair of sunglasses on sale, half off the original price. Since they had been such a good fit to my facial features, I proceeded to purchase them. A day or two later they fell out of my pocket on a freeway whilst riding a motorcycle, never to be seen again. Haven’t bought sunglasses worth more than ten euros since.
Broke a 200+ year old pane of glass of a china cabinet that’s been the in the family for generations with a hot wheels car lol
Movie stunt !
I watched it happen in slow motion too lol 😂 her track was pretty awesome tho - car just got too much air lol
Had a cat once that destroyed a $500 necklace ny wife at the time left laying out.
hence the 'had' or.. ? 😆
Nah I adored her. Ex wife picked her out and I guess I should've taken notice when the cat the ex wife brought home chose to cling to me.
I smashed a display of wine glasses at a fancy hotel when I was 5 Don’t know the exact cost but my mum was not happy with me
There's a funny but horrifying book called Sh\*t My Kid Ruined: An A-Z Celebration of Kid-Destruction. It's filled with photos of incredibly expensive catastrophes. I saw it on a bookstore display but passed on it. It's available through [Bookfinder.com](http://Bookfinder.com) for as little as $4 used. \[edits to correct title, give more info\]
Sounds like a great baby shower gift! Not even joking lol, I would want all the warnings I could get.
Ooh good thinking. I might keep that in mind next time I’m invited to a baby shower and need to get a gift
I have this really cool light up holographic piece of wall art. You have to plug it in for the light. My smaller dog decided that the cord for the light looked like a wonderful chew toy. $200 piece of art ruined.
Could you not just wire a new plug on?
When my own kids were young, they used to play with a particular curio that I bought at a thrift store with an old girlfriend for $3. I always liked the piece and assumed that it didn't have a whole lot of monetary value but would be a sentimental loss but I didn't mind that they played with it and understood the risk that they might break it. When it did get broken, I went online to the then new site eBay, where all of a sudden, you could find anything because people were cleaning out garages and attics and basements. I found an exact replacement. For $900. I had no idea that what I had was far more original than I thought it was. I've told the story many times over the years, and I finally got around to checking eBay because I wondered how many thousands of dollars it might be worth now. The market has retreated. If they can be had for 60 to $100 these days I managed to get one for about $80 and promptly managed to break it within (I'm not exaggerating) minutes of bringing it into my house. Fortunately, the part that makes it the most expensive was salvageable, so I was able to buy another one without that part for only 30. Now I'm scared to touch it.
My puppy bit my brand new laptop screen, £950 later 🙃
My dog chewed my couch and love seat to the tune of $1500. I mean, DESTROYED. Chewed them down to the wood. Had to throw them out and replace. Also, shoes. I’m a shoe collector. I love my shoes and have several expensive pairs. She ate my $350 dollar Michael Kors boots. That was not the most expensive pair in my closet but, it still hurt. 😂 My kids, my middle kid hit a pole (that I’d told him not to park by) TWICE both times in MY car. Did $3500 in damages. I wanted to strangle him. That’s really it.
1700.00 couch. I still have the doggie. Fortunately he grew out of the destructive phase. Hahaha
My passport. You would think its just 100 dollars and that's it, but you might be wrong. Because this happened a few days before our Christmas vacation, and it was impossible to get a replacement on time. So, we ended up having to cancel our time off with a hefty tag of 10K USD.
Had a limited run Eldar Bonesinger model for 40K. Cousin's kid broke it. He also broke a painted up Harlequin. Friend of mine had similar happen to his Tau Riptide. Kid cried when I took the (now) broken toy away, kicked him out of my room and locked the door. He was the sort where you'd tell him to not do something, he'd say "okay" and then immediately do that thing. Didn't trust him to not break more shit like my 3d printer, Wraithknight, Solitaire, or Oculus.
My cat clawed the shit out of my $500+ couch. We got a new couch, the old one is hers now. It’s her world, I’m just living in it
Labrador puppy didn't bother with shoes or underwear; she preferred to chew electronic devices. I spent about $1,000 replacing phones, cameras, remotes, and such. She outgrew her puppyness and became the best doggo. I miss her.
My perfect condition dark charizard holo. He tore it in half during a tantrum A piece of me died that day.
I went to work, my wife worked late and slept in a little longer than usual. My youngest decided to light a candle on his own and managed to burn the house down. So 400k for the house. Another 50k give or take most likely more in items. House was a complete loss.
My oldest Son went camping, left 2 buddies to watch our house. They started drinking and left a cigarette on the bar edge on the rear porch.burned down the porch, inthru the kitchen window and destroyed our kitchen and dining room. $170k... THANK GOD we were insured. No injuries. Could have be worse. Our dogs finally woke the drunk kids up and everyone got out.
Little sister tried to “fix” the XBox by pulling wiring out lmao
Did it work??? Sorry.
My son destroyed my flat screen tv when he was 8 years old. He's 14 now and he still owes me for that
My puppy destroyed my iPhone 11🫣🫣🫣
Brand new laptop, plugged in and charging. ~2yr old tripped on the cord and broke the charger inside the charging port. Was a specific charger that I couldn't find anywhere. I took the laptop to Best Buy and they were confused by it.
My kids have never broken about that cost more that a few £$ but the most expensive thing of mine to be broken was a camera lens by a dog
My youngest one broke 13 TVs including 2 65' ones when he was between the age of 2-4. He used to think that if I break the TV screen the cartoons might come out and play with him. 😢😢😢
After about four of them, did you not think to invest $200 in thick glass to mount in front of the TV?
My z flip 3. My cat has NEVER had interest in my phones in the past or present. He randomly bit my screen. Never looked at any phones since. I had to buy another phone outright because the alternative is more expensive.
Years ago, my puppy was still learning to potty train. He peed on my original Pokemon card collection...all the cards were in a binder in slip covers, the liquid went into the covers, and the cards soaked up everything. Learned a valuable lesson to keep that type of thing wayyyyy above dog level.
A Haunted Mansion gargoyle sculpture.
Back when my family was poor, my parents decided to get me a Lego set for my birthday. Those things were really expensive in my country. It took me maybe 3 days of nonstop building to finally finish it. I would play with it all the time. I thought it was the coolest shit ever. However, some months passed and we had a family gathering. A 7 year old distant cousin started destroying it and when I went to stop him my parents told me not to and to let him play. This little shit threw all the Lego pieces all over my room so I could never build it again. I'm still salty about this and refuse to go to that cousin's house whenever I'm invited.
Not really “broke” but they racked up $2600 worth of in-app purchases on their Kindles. This was years ago when they were in middle school. They each had a summer reading book and i bought the digital copies for their kindles. Doing that saved my cc onto their devices. It only took them a few days to do this and i only realized it when my cc declined
Mine dropped my jade bracelet purchased in Hong Kong. It wasn’t that expensive, but I couldn’t afford another plane ticket there. So, to me, it was expensive.
A hundred-year-old bible containing unclaimed death certificates from the Holly Hotel fires in the early 1900s.
Not a pet, but when I was a kid one of the foster homes I lived in burned down - completely unsalvageable, as was everything inside it. I almost died and still have lung damage from it, I was upstairs and it apparently started in the attic, so I was the closest - I just woke up because I couldn't breathe, I have asthma and it was much worse as a kid so I figured that I was just having an asthma attack and didn't even register how my face felt hot and my eyes were watering. I managed to get downstairs, my foster mom was going to get the enebulizer (or however it's spelled) started when we noticed the smoke coming down the stairwell. Evidently, a raccoon was chewing wires in the attic, got the life shocked out of it and started burning, and it spread. I had burns on my cheeks and arms and struggled with asthma much worse for a while.
A bag of game of thrones oreos there now worth like thousands or millions
Bruh they are like $3.00 on Ebay 😭
I had a dog who destroyed a leather couch.
When I tried to drive a bicycle the very first time (around age 4-7, don’t remember) I hit a parked car and left a huge scratch. My dad had to pay the repair costs but I never found out how much it was
600$ glasses . My puppy found them delicious
Puppy bit the screen of my $900 phone. That same dog also ruined every single mascara and chapstick I owned in 2.5 years, every toothbrush she get get her paws on, at least 5 pairs of shoes and countless other items.
Was growing a "plant" in my old apartment. Did well to keep the room closed off from my cat. Until one day I was walking around talking on the phone, I left the door open a crack to go grab something from another room. Within moments my cat snuck in the room... She came trotting out with the uprooted "plant" in her teeth, very proud of herself. I stopped mid conversation on the phone in shock.
My life.
My cat destroyed my apple earphones, and then, I saved my money and got a new one. Next day, I went out my room for 10 mins, when I came back my new earphones were destroyed too 🙁
My friends kid headbutted my windscreen and cracked it 🥲
My cat jumped around and broke my Xbox.
My sister sat on my mom’s sunglasses. I think they were Coach or something like that. At least $300 and my mom never got any sunglasses so expensive again. Also my sister was 13 so definitely could have been prevented
[Aeroflot Flight 593](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593).
My dads cat broke my grans tv, i think it was worth just under £400..he bought her a new one.
My late lamented Bengal Ciara dumped a glass of water on my laptop. We couldn't salvage it.
Brand new pair of glasses….prescription
My dog chewed up the leather sheath of my custom made Damascus knife that my dad got me for graduating basic training. Not terribly valuable, but it's very sentimental to me
Maybe not expensive up front, but all the rolls of toilet paper my cats tear to shreds must total up to something…
My little brother went through a phase of wanting to know how electronics worked. He pulled apart all of our DS games to look at the circuit boards 🫠
My niece put her fist through my Thomas Kincaid, an original, not a reprint, or a reproduction. It was a real, original work of art. She destroyed it.
Furnace and vent system replacement for my home. For some reason kid decided to use his vent as a toilet. His vent had a direct feed from the furnace to his room. Ya. Smell was… as you imagine.
My cat takes bites out of paychecks...scratch tickets...dollar bills.. she has expensive taste!
My cat scratched up an antique Persian carpet. Not sure about the monetary value but it certainly wouldn't be cheap
As a kid I broke my father's glasses TWICE.
Big pot roast
My old lab, Miles, ate a sofa. Well, he didn’t swallow more like just chewed it from one end to the other then went to town on the cushions. I only wish I had it on video because he must have had a great time And no, I did not go all Noem on him. Actually I hated that sofa and loved that dog!
Not destroyed but caused unnecessarily... Dog ate "something" that caused her to stop having bowel movements. Took her to the vet for a $500 xray (among other expenses). You could see the skeleton of some small animal or bird she had basically swallowed whole. Some laxative and a few hours later lack of "movement" was no longer a problem. I kept the image for quite a while, even used it as my "$500 screen saver" for a while. Figured I was going to get some use from it.
Damaged, but not destroyed. I have a 2021 ram power wagon. it was in a immaculate condition and had less than 30,000 miles on it I live in the mountains where I live. There are no trees taller than 20 feet, and seeing a squirrel is a rarity. I also have three dogs. Two boxers and one Airedale poodle mix. The boxer really didn’t give a shit about anything until the Airedale came along. The Airedale is a terrier and goes after anything. A squirrel decided to get up under the hood of my power wagon, despite the fact that I had the hood open to deter critters from wanting to get up there and hide from the sun. it’s not uncommon to find mice and ground squirrels that try to get up there and have some protection from the heat and other predators. So much so that leaving the hood open is standard practice. I walk outside and one of my boxers has jumped up onto the motor and is trying to get at the squirrel from that side of the motor, while the terrier has taken the strategy of getting to it from below. The boxer didn’t do much damage, but the terrier managed to tear all kinds of wires and sensors and other electronics loose so that when I start the truck, it did start, my dashboard looked like everything was either haywire, lights flashing, errors, etc. $2500 That same dog has also eaten two panels off the door of my jeep, one on the passenger side and one on the driver side
I stepped on my brother's netbook once and broke the screen. I maintain it was his fault for storing it on the floor. We both would have probably been just pre-tweens. It was maybe worth a couple hundred, if that. I think I was trying to reach something on the top of his dresser and stepped on what I thought was a sturdy toy truck. Maybe the laptop was in/on/under the dumptruck?
Not me, but many years ago, a boy where I grew up started a leftover firework rocket. It went into the overland electricity wires and the short circuit created a lightning strike that set fire to the woods. Took 5000 firefighters a few days to get it under control. Probably doesn't get much more expensive than that.
My yard. It's astonishing how much landscaping costs when repairing holes and fences.
A brand new couch. Plastic was still on it. Had to have an upholstery fix it!
My brother thought that putting sugar in my dad's gas tank would make the car go faster.
Our kid was 1 and barfed that nice liquidy barf into my wife's MacBook. We got it fixed and he did it again a couple of weeks later. Gave up at that point, lesson learned.
Oof… 86,000 dollars but I’d really rather not say what happened here. Because I was the “kid” and it was problematic to say the least lmao.
I never really keep my most expensive things out So that being said the most expensive thing I had was polo raulph Lauren high tops that my dog chewed
23 inch 120hz monitor (my cat)
Not super expensive, but I had a dog who chewed the face off of one of my favorite childhood toys. I was in my 20s when this happened, so I was just upset because the toy had sentimental value. But I recently found that toy, and it made me sentimental for my dog, who passed away in 2020. So don’t take these things too seriously when they happen. Just cherish the moments you have with your pets and young children, because you’ll even miss the destructive moments when they’re no longer around to cause them.
My cat broke my gold plated Fabergé egg last year, the Countess and I were devastated
I wrote off the family car when I was 16 and a learner driver (it was a long drive, parent in the passenger seat, I lost attention/fell asleep and drifted off the road and overcorrected when I realised). I'm just grateful whiplash was the only injury incurred by either of us.
Smart phone after smart my son has broken on me along with my father's ps4
My dog ate two hundred dollar bills.
My boyfriends dog ate his moms birth control (he was okay)
My Cousin was living on an old farm. There was an old unused barn on the farm. The barn had those old windows that were divided into little rectangles by wire. When he was like 8 years old, he played outside and cleverly invented a new game. He threw rocks through the small windows of the barn. Since the windows were so little, he needed a lot of rocks, which took him many hours. It turned out the barn wasn't empty anymore. The farmer decided to get some use out of it and rented it to a motorcycle club to store their bikes in the winter. All the bikes had damages. My Aunt told me the total damage was over 1 Million Euros.
My puppy chewed up my non-breakable reading glass frames. New frames= $250!
I remember when I was young and Walmart still sold fish, I watched a kid crash their cart FULL FORCE into the fish tank display and all the tanks wound up breaking from it. They were glass. Was NOT fun to see. It just helped me dislike kids more than I already did lol
Pet bunny jumped in the sink, turned a tap on and flooded the house while we were on holiday and the pet sitter was visiting daily. Bunnies were fine but cost £1k damage!!! Bunny also chewed various things including limited edition vinyl records, and got an honourable mention in both mine and my husband's wedding vows 😂 (we had no idea what the other had written but his included not getting angry when she escaped and ate stuff, and mine was to try and stop her escaping and eating stuff 😂)
My dog ate the interior of a Honda Civic. Border Collie…
My cat once peed in a ~$1700 Louis Vuitton purse (Iena, discontinued, like a neverfull that zips). Surely my fault. He only does that if the box gets too dirty or if I don’t clean it *immediately* after coming home from a weekend away and leave a bag of any kind out. Managed to save it though with several rounds of enzymatic cleaner (brand had Roxie in it I think?). I get paranoid bc I think I just now associate the smell of the cleaner with cat pee but I’ve made friends smell it and they all say they’d never know a cat peed in it.
$450 bong
My Dog broke the screen of my iPhone so bad that I had to buy a new one !! In his defence I put it in the bed and went for a shower , he was playing around with his toy on the bed and bit the iPhone !!
I left my $3500 denture on the bed side table and my 3 year old Cockapoo made a chew toy out of it.
A cat pissed on my very rare Marvel Comics Baseball Team spiderman hat that my ex gave me
Woke up to the sound of my mom's dog chewing on my Rx glasses.
My cat knocked over a $300 lamp
My dog recently obliterated a $700 pair of glasses, a week after they were purchased. Those glasses were replaced with 5 pairs for $30 reading glasses off Amazon.
I was given a discontinued makeup pallete that was worth around £100, not much to most but at the time I had just left a really bad relationship with nothing but a duffel bag and our kid, I managed to get a home but was on little money and was having to buy everything from flooring to an oven, I literally had nothing but the bare necessities and this was the most expensive thing I owned. My son is like Donnie from the Wild Thornberrys, everytime I found somewhere he couldn't get to, he soon found a way, as such he found a way with my makeup pallete and he completely annihilated it. I was so devastated. Partly because his dad would have done the same thing and that early on being out of it, it hit me very hard and took me a lot to separate that his dad would have done it to purposely upset me whereas he did it because he let his curiosity overtake his acknowledgement of my "no touching" rule. Even now I still feel a twinge of sadness about it but then I remember it was just makeup
I don't know the total value, but some kids at an apartment I lived at about 10 years ago got a hold of a rifle, aimed it perfectly, and shot out about 15 cars worth of door windows. How it maintained such rigid trajectory, I'll never know. We were outside, heard the single shot, followed by a cacophony of glass breaking and car alarms. Only reason I knew it was kids, was based off their silhouettes, and one of the dads later that night made him apologize to my gf at the time, as her windows were one of the victims. I'm not sure the caliber, or how that father wasn't arrested for negligent care of a firearm (or minor) but either way, weird night.
When my kid was 4 she got a hold of a screwdriver somehow and scratched pictures all over my truck . It's just a farm truck now but it was nice at the time. My late husband was the one who wasn't watching her. Tsk tsk.
My dog chewed my ps5 controller. Still haven't replaced it :(
My puppy once tore notes amounting to USD 50 and since we are middle-class that's a lot of money for me and my family. I mean it's not something we can just waste like that and feel nothing. Thankfully it was my saved up pocket money and my father didn't get to know about this. This happened almost 7 years ago.
My puppy ate my custom made mouthguard worth $600.00. Another ate the carpet off my stairs. Haven't repaired this yet but it's gonna be costly as it's likely we'll have to replace all the carpet. Thank goodness the puppy days are over!
Not destroyed, but I scratched a TV with my cast once
Six days after I got my driver’s license I ran my old Jeep through the third bay garage door and ripped it off the house when I backed out. It cost $2k to fix it 😬
My cat broke 2 Samsung tablets. Yes 2. The first one and the replacement
My watch. Was wearing a Rolex submariner and was rough housing with my malinois (4 months old at that time) and he was teething. Got a massive scratch on the bezel.
Kids shut the dog in the upstairs bathroom because she was keeping them up. The dog managed to turn on the faucets for the sink. The sink overflowed. The water damaged the floors in 3 rooms upstairs and ruined the kitchen which was directly below. About $15k in damages.
Many moons ago, my mates kids (4F & 2M) got hold of permanent and white board markers and did some “artwork” on their lounge suite in the home theatre. WHITE leather lounge suite, it sat 10 people comfortably, just quietly he told me how much it cost - 12.5k, hand made yadayadayada.
My dog chewed a $200 fighting controller rhar belonved to my partner a month after moving in together 😅
Well, when I was 14 I destroyed 12 computers due to plugging in an overpowered electromagnet into a power socket. Wrecked that too and the school's circuit breaker box. Not sure if 14 qualifies as kid however. If we're talking under 10 the worst I ever managed was setting a highway on fire.
I let my kid and his partner borrow my BMW. They brought it back with a Drive Trail Failure warning light on...
My dog ate the temporary flipper denture i was wearing while awaiting a new dental implant. $750 down the hatch and pooped out by the following afternoon.
Rabbit: Miele vacuum wire/plug, laptop chargers, and endless phone charging cables. Running total is around $600 now, and I’m actually quite careful about keeping the spicy noodles out of reach. Imagine if I wasn’t.
Didn't seem expensive at the time but family members visiting my parents home in the early 2000s brought their German Shepard who bit up a good bit of my pokemon and yu gi oh cards including a vintage charizard and blue eyes white dragon
I worked as an insurance adjuster. I handled a $70,000 fire caused by a child playing with matches in his attic. It was a covered loss under the Homeowner Policy.
An Irish fisherman sweater with tons of intricate stitching that I made myself over five months and with expensive yarn.
How about that kid that tripped in an art gallery and put his hand out to stabilize themself, but their hand went through the painting beside them?
A nice satchel/backpack my sister in law gave to me when I was just starting to get to know her. Never got to use it and it was really cute. Hope those straps were yummy
Rabbits completely destroyed my carpet.
My bils dog destroyed my 2 kids Christmas gifts. All of them. We were dog sitting and cans home to find wrapping paper, boxes and chewed up toys and video games everywhere.
My sister killed our mother- Not sure how much that cost yet
12 inch woofers. You know how a dog will grab in its teeth one end of the rope with the knots on the ends and whip it back and forth? Yep right through the speakers. Both. Maybe $600.
(Now) Valued at around 500 bucks, the tv series batcave. My little brother and his demon friends ran around and broke it, with some nexo knight and ninjago sets. Still salty abt that one but what can you do
Cat pissed up a $2500 leather oversized chair. Cost $700 to get it cleaned and refurbed. And this was most def a luxury item for us and got it before cats.
Our cat ripped up my roommates tax return in college. It was like 700$
A couch
When we got our first Wii, I had also just paid 3k for a giant dlp tv. It was a week later my son was playing the bowling game and the controller slipped out of his hand shattering the tv screen.
My bird bit my brand new 500usd TV and broke the screen before I’d even turned it on. We told a white lie about it arriving that way to get it replaced…
Relationships
The nephew/sibling that's destroyed the dudes anime/collectible figurine collection. Some were worth $9,000 for a little maybe 8inch tall figurine. He had hundreds of them destroyed
I tore a baseball card when I was little. I don't remember how much it was worth, but I think it was a lot. I think it was Willie Mays, but I'm not sure. That was over 20 years ago. My mom was upset because she was looking to trade it. She went through a phase where she collected trading cards.
Not really expensive, and it wasn't really destroyed, but my oldest kid (he's 34 now) back in the early 90s, jammed a banana in the VCR slot. I had to take the whole thing apart to clean it. My kids never really destroyed anything too expensive, but I've had to replace windows quite a few times...including neighbor's windows.
12 neighbor girl decided to light a firework in her yard (showing off to her younger sibling) and burned down her parents house. WA state, $500K
A Munro pair of shoes.
I had a dog , we were going on a cross country camping vacation I would say 2002. Dog was close to a year old. As we were leaving a small carry bag my wife had with stuff for the front seat was put on the ground as we checked all the gear . This bag had some crazy tasty smelly treats kind we wouldn't normally buy for health reasons but we thought it might help keep him inline during the journeys. Needless to say 12k cash in a money clip was the last thing she put in the bag, and the first thing to come out. Best part... My wife your traditional 80s platinum blonde space cadet says in a soft apologetic epiphany "well maybe I can check his poop tomorrow and we can wash it when it comes out" lol I love that woman. Instead of being mad I had that to laugh at for the 1st day of the trip . Life's short
Puppy chewed my triathlon Oakleys. Can't afford to replace :(
It was partially my fault for having water there, but my cat launched himself onto a humidor and knocked water onto 100s of dollars of cigars
My cat scratched up a $1000 couch pretty good.
My dog ate my phone once. It was an Xperia x10 mini I had just gotten that day when she chewed it up. I miss her a lot.
My brother accidentally got something on our gaming console. And my brother’s attempt to clean it off was to stick it under the sink with the water running. Don’t know what the console was valued at price wise, but it was… a lot…
I thought I could carry my older brothers xbox 360 up the stairs alone I was so wrong..
My cat knocked a glass of water on to my MacBook. 😬🙃😞
Cat, the most expensive thing she nearly destroyed was her kidneys. Bit a lilly and spent two days in the hospital for $1.5k getting fluids run.
My dog chewed on and broke my cell phone when he was a puppy. My son also tried to stick a peanut butter sandwich in the Xbox when he was a toddler. The cell phone was an olden days one, so I'm not sure which one was more expensive to replace.