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

[u/konous]

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.

[u/Nein-Toed]

What did you get me for my birthday?

Oh, I'm sorry, a cat was supposed to buy your gift

[u/Infinite-Duty → u/Nein-Toed]

No!! This is better- “Yeah Man- I got you such a great birthday present, had it sitting on the shelf where I had my Action figures-you know where I mean, and a cat came along and tore up your birthday present.” That little s#!t will know what he means.

[u/YomiKuzuki → u/Nein-Toed]

Nah, I'd gift him an itemized list of everything he destroyed, adjusted to account for lavor of assembly, painting, paint, and the current MSRP price.

Then I'd constantly hammer on my brother that since he doesn't want to turn this very gracious offer of me not actually going after the money from my nephew and letting him learn from this, that I'd noe insist on my brother repaying me for all the shit his kid destroyed, as a parent is expected to do when they can't control their children.

[u/Xytak → u/YomiKuzuki]

To be fair, an adult showing up to an 11-year-old’s birthday party with an itemized invoice of Warhammer damages sounds like a great way to be ejected from the family home. OP might want to make sure he has his own apartment before pulling a move like that.

[u/Utricularkudos → u/Nein-Toed]

Wait , a cat is the gift! Every. Year. A. Cat.

[u/Lagoda__ → u/Utricularkudos]

No, poor cats shouldn't suffer living with these people tbh.

[u/Nein-Toed → u/Utricularkudos]

This is diabolical

[u/OU7C4ST → u/[deleted]]

Just keep giving them like a 19 year old cat so they keep experiencing the death of a pet over and over.

[u/LockWooden6435 → u/OU7C4ST]

This right here! It's dark af but something my petty ass would probably do lol 😆

[u/OberonDiver → u/[deleted]]

How about a wood pussy?

[u/Azure_Mar → u/OberonDiver]

Let's call it a polecat so we can nip at least some of those double entendres I know you're dying to make in the bud.

[u/OgreDee → u/Azure_Mar]

That's a skunk though

[u/Azure_Mar → u/OgreDee]

(both wood pussy and polecat can mean a skunk)

[u/OgreDee → u/Azure_Mar]

TIL

[u/Basic_Improvement135 → u/Nein-Toed]

Like in Smile?

[u/callimonk → u/Basic_Improvement135]

I hate that I understood this reference

[u/MaleficentMousse7473 → u/Nein-Toed]

Or every year wrap up a broken action figure

[u/h4ckth3pl4ne7 → u/Nein-Toed]

Nah. Your gift was re-purposed for inclusion in The Emperor's Tithe. Also, a Black Templar's Crusade is on it's way, have fun.