A K.C. couple let their boys run around a community center lobby and one of the little darlings pulled a glass statue down, breaking it.
The couple received a letter a few days later with a bill for $132,000.
They are not happy about the bill.
Video of the incident in link.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-face-132000-claim-kid-knocks-sculpture/story?id=55927437
The couple received a letter a few days later with a bill for $132,000.
They are not happy about the bill.
Video of the incident in link.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-face-132000-claim-kid-knocks-sculpture/story?id=55927437
Surveillance video captured the little boy reaching for the sculpture, called “Aphrodite di Kansas City” on display in the lobby of the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas, when it toppled over.
Then a few days later, the family received a $132,000 claim from the city of Overland Park’s insurance company, saying that the piece had been damaged beyond repair.
“You’re responsible for the supervision of a minor child… your failure to monitor could be considered negligent,” the insurance letter read in part.
“I was surprised, absolutely, more so offended to be called negligent,” said the boy’s mother Sarah Goodman. “They were treating this like a crime scene.”
The sculpture’s artist, Bill Lyons, told ABC News it took him about two years to create the piece and it was listed for sale at $132,000. He examined the piece himself, he said, and concluded it could not be repaired.
“It’s beyond my capabilities and desires to rebuild it,” he said.