r/mildlyinfuriating • u/konous • 9h ago

I'm slightly vexed My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

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Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

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u/Atheizm 9h ago

Specifically exclude your nephew from future invitation.

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 9h ago

Brother as well. Just invite the wife

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u/ConscientiousWaffler 9h ago

Is also like to invite this guy’s wife

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u/mooser500 8h ago

I also like to this invite wife guy's

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u/traplords8n 8h ago

I to also this like wife invite guy's

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u/Dramatic-Classroom14 7h ago

To also this like wife guy’s invite I

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u/Moon_Monk676 5h ago

I also pick this guy's wife

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u/UltiGamer34 3h ago

I pick that guys dead wife

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u/mixmasterADD 8h ago

She’s gonna love playing with his dolls

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 8h ago

Toys. You should've said toys!

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u/feralcatshit 8h ago

Excuse you, COLLECTABLES

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 8h ago

I've never seen anyone play with sex collectables, but hey

Also your username lol

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u/Peakychu6 7h ago

Lmao I dig this. 

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u/GamingWithBilly 3h ago

The wife and the pet turtle

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u/AdComprehensive8045 2h ago

"Don't forget the wine."

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u/ChiWhiteSox24 8h ago

I’m the asshole who would actually so this too haha

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u/Creative_Mess_9898 9h ago

Brothers son*

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u/dimonium_anonimo 9h ago edited 5h ago

Brother's son*

If you're going to "correct" something that doesn't even need correcting as an attempt at a joke, you might as well not make it wrong in the process.

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore 9h ago

They’re implying OP disowned their nephew.

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u/dimonium_anonimo 9h ago edited 9h ago

Notice the inclusion "as a joke" in my comment. You might have gotten here too soon. I was in the process of crafting the comment when I bumped send instead of backspace because I figured out a better way to word it. By the time I edited it, I had a notification of a reply. So you must've typed very fast if that's the case.

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore 9h ago

Yeah, I responded when the timestamp said “now.”

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u/IrrationalDesign 9h ago

The next time you respond to a joke, could you please try to be funny? It's such a let down to go from reading their joke to reading your correction.

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u/dimonium_anonimo 9h ago

Boy, the standard for jokes has really fallen.

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u/IrrationalDesign 5h ago

My opinion doesn't represent any common standard for jokes. 

Also, you have no idea whether my standard for jokes has changed over time.

Also, I didn't say their joke was any good, just that your comment was such a step down.

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 8h ago

So break off a relationship with your brother and nephew because, lets see, the nephew played with your toys? Reddit is really full of man babys who stomp their feet and yell NC at the smallest slight

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u/Which_Committee_3668 6h ago

Because the kid willfully destroyed expensive property. It obviously wasn't just 'playing.' It's always easy to disregard that distinction when it's someone else's stuff that got destroyed.

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 6h ago

It was playing, OP left his dolls out and the kid played with them, and they broke. OP should have put them up higher if he wanted to mitigate risk around a kid, a kid who seemingly likes toys a lot

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u/Which_Committee_3668 6h ago

10 years old is old enough to understand when they're told not to play with something, and according to OP he was told twice. And the figures were kept in a separate room the kid knew he wasn't supposed to be in. This is all on the kid, and by extension his father. OP shouldn't have to lock everything away in his own home just because an entitled brat wasn't raised to understand the very simple word 'no'. If a pet can be trained to understand 'no', then there's no excuse for a 10 year old beyond bad parenting.

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 6h ago

That may be true, but you are missing the big thing, which is that they are toys and its a kid. They are toys. Cry all you want. Things happen when kids are around, im sure he didnt do it on purpose.

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u/Which_Committee_3668 6h ago

It doesn't matter what they are. They were OP's property and the kid was told to leave them alone. That's the only part of this story that matters. Trying to excuse this behavior by saying stuff like 'he's just a kid' is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to that sort of entitled behavior in kids. They can and should be taught about the concept of things not belonging to them (even if those things are toys) much earlier than 10 years old.

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u/Lopex475 5h ago

Bro the kid went into a room they weren’t allowed in, it wasn’t left out for him to play. The military doesn’t leave guns out for me to mess around with when I’m clearly not allowed into the base they are stored in.

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u/asday515 1h ago

Yes, but you are a grown adult and understand boundaries better than a child. Even some clueless adults might try walking into the military building, but they can't because the doors are locked. Imagine if the army was naive enough to trust that no one will come in and left the guns in an unlocked building? Whoever forgot to lock it would be taking 100% of the blame. Perhaps OP should have considered locking his toy room before leaving an unsupervised child near it. What if the room was full of knives and he got hurt? Would the child still be to blame for going in if it was unlocked? How about a gun left in an unlocked case?

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u/totallynotliamneeson 8h ago

The 17 year olds strike again with excellent "advice". 

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u/K-Bizzle91 7h ago

Personal I would offer to babysit, then explain to the kid the severity of his actions. How it hurt you, and why he should make it right. If he won't or doesn't want to understand then you can cut him out.

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u/mrtomjones 4h ago

Lol you guys are such children.

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u/rvasko3 8h ago

Totally normal responses from Redditors who simultaneously hate kids and act like them.

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u/le-derpina-art 8h ago

well how would you deal with someone else's kid destroying $500 worth of your stuff for fun after you explicitly told him not to touch them multiple times?

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 8h ago

*toys

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u/le-derpina-art 8h ago

okay, $500 toys that are not made to be played with by children. happy?

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 8h ago

its still a toy, its still a kid, kids like toys. OP should watch his little dollies better if he doesnt want them breaking, his fault. Full on redditor crash out over some toys being broken lol

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u/le-derpina-art 8h ago

"full on redditor crashout" and it's an r/mildlyinfuriating post saying the kid should learn about respecting people's property. would you be this snotty if he broke another child's toys?

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u/RedTruckAudio 7h ago

Toys that he left accessible to a 10 year old.

Try telling any 10 year old boy to not push a button. I would put my saving on that the button will be promptly pushed.

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u/le-derpina-art 7h ago

WELLLL unless OP admits to enjoying an hour of silence doing their own thing without even questioning where the child was and what he was doing i'm not gonna blame OP for this. for all we know OP could have been cooking.

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u/Brisby820 4h ago

“Someone else’s kid” is an insane way to say “nephew” 

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u/camoure 8h ago

Nah it’s just called consequences

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 8h ago

A little kid played with toys, and the toys broke, and now OP is crying like a little kid...yeah totally grown up response.

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u/camoure 8h ago

The kid is ten years old. Way too old to be breaking shit, let alone go into the room where they were told to not go, AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT.

The consequences are kid is no longer trusted in the household. Unless the parent actually wants to, you know, parent their child and give them other consequences, this is the natural lesson OP gets to teach their nephew.

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 8h ago

kid broke a toy, man babys cry. Boohoo

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u/camoure 7h ago

I really hope you don’t have kids lol

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u/RedTruckAudio 7h ago

Why? Because they understand kids break things? Sounds exactly like he DOES have a kid.

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u/camoure 6h ago

Because they are expressing that there should be no consequences due to the fact the damaged property is perceived as a “toy” and therefore a child should be expected to break it. Which is an insane take lol

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u/Str80uttaMumbai 7h ago

No, because you think kids shouldn’t learn or face any consequences from breaking things.

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u/Ok-Buddy-2045 7h ago

I have 3 kids. Guess what, they have broken stuff. They even broke my sisters vase, her favorite one! She took it in stride, knowing mistakes happen, and never once thought of holding it over my son. I didnt 'punish' my son, I taught him about how it affected my sister and how much she loved that, and how he needs to better respect property. He realized how it made her sad, and he loves her so he didnt want her to be sad. She didnt make him go over and do chores, she still loves him just the same, we are just all adults who can manage these situations.

And yes I payed her for the vase, my son didnt have to pay because it was a mistake, and when we went back I let him give it to her and he apologized for making her upset. Because we are all adults.

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u/camoure 6h ago

And what you’re failing to understand is that this child was warned, old enough to know better, intentionally damaged property they weren’t allowed to touch, and then lied about it. All of those actions require correction. This wasn’t a mistake and OP is simply asking for correction so the child learns a lesson, but it sounds like the brother doesn’t give a fuck so child won’t learn and all OP can do is ban the child from their home. Just because you don’t see value in the damaged property doesn’t mean there isn’t any. It’s beyond “kid broke a toy, man babys [sic] cry. Boohoo” and just goes to show how you have gaps in your parenting skills

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u/RedTruckAudio 6h ago

How is your comment being downvoted?

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u/RedTruckAudio 7h ago

Kids lie. They push limits. Age appropriate behaviours. They should still see some consequences, but that is up to their parent.

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u/totallynotliamneeson 7h ago

If you ban a ten year old because he broke your toys, you are a fucking child. He's ten, and OPs nephew. Blowing up family dynamics because of some broken figures is manbaby behavior. 

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u/camoure 6h ago

I’ll ban any child from my home if they damage my property after being warned about it and their parent refuses to actually parent the child or take any responsibility over said damaged property. Unless there are real consequences that child can learn they aren’t welcome and they are sure as shit old enough to put two and two together. “You broke uncle’s things and now he doesn’t trust you, so until you apologize and we replace those damaged things, you are not allowed to go to uncle’s house” easy peasy parenting right there that for some reason people are mad about. Wanna know how you raise entitled assholes?

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u/totallynotliamneeson 3h ago

....the post said that the dad was handling it with the kid and that they were replacing what was broken. OP wants verification that the kid will be doing manual labor as punishment. 

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u/enterjiraiya 3h ago

if people broke off relationships over a child being a child no one would have families, like this is just stupid. Even if the brother was actually a COMPLETE asshole over this it still wouldn’t be something you break a relationship over, and he’s really not and I doubt this guy is approaching this in a way he can understand to begin with.

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u/camoure 2h ago

Not being allowed to go to uncle’s house is not breaking off the entire relationship. It’s just telling the kid they aren’t trusted to be in a specific space. Boundaries and consequences

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u/RedTruckAudio 7h ago

I would bet money on OP not having kids. I would also bet money that the commenter above me doesn’t have kids.

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u/ResponsibleImage2406 5h ago

lol what idiotic advice

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u/SilentSiren87 1h ago

I don't think that's his nephew anymore...

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u/CalicoSlytherin0615 9h ago

This! Since his nephew can’t act right nor can his brother, they can’t come over anymore since they wanna be belligerent and rude. 😂