A 40-year-old US-American is currently suing his parents for damages because they destroyed and disposed of his valuable porn collection during a relocation. Now the man is demanding 87,000 dollars in damages from his parents.
A newly divorced American is suing his parents for the destruction of his expensive sextoy and porn collection. The man had moved in with his parents in Michigan for a few months after his divorce in 2016 and had brought his belongings with him. Among them was a porn and sex toy collection, which he kept in 12 boxes. Some of the titles were collector’s items and came from studios that had long ceased to exist.
Removal helpers with pedagogical intent
After he had built up his own household again, he asked his parents to bring the remaining boxes to his new apartment. However, they showed up without the valuable porn collection he had built up over the years. They succinctly explained to their son that they had destroyed and thrown away these boxes for his own good. His father said it was a lot of work and one day he would be grateful to them.
The parents said they were worried about their son’s mental health. As he had already gotten into trouble in high school because of his porn interests, the parents believed they were right. Apparently, he had run a flourishing but illegal porn rental business for classmates and had been expelled from school as a teenager.
Huge loss
But the son was probably not only angry because of his parents’ invasion of his privacy. The value of the collection was several tens of thousands of dollars, as many of the titles represented in the collection were rare, some of them of historical value. Since neither the police nor the public prosecutor’s office wanted to investigate, the angry son decided to bring an action for damages.
It is to be assumed that the court will consider the matter somewhat less moralizing than the police and the public prosecutor’s office. After all, property is property. What parents or society think morally has nothing to do with his claim for damages.
But the son seemed to be offended in an interpersonal way as well: »If you had a problem with my property, you could have told me that, then I would have found another place to live.«