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2018-06-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

Parents are hit with $132,000 bill after their five-year-old knocks over a glass sculpture while 'hugging' it

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-06-17 01:11|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Fix it yourself and shut up. It was a Child and your art is probably shit anyway.

Posted by newc 2018-06-17 02:27|| 2018-06-17 02:27|| Front Page Top

#2 In the era of Free Ranging Children

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-17 08:14|| 2018-06-17 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 In the era of Free Ranging Children

With limited to no parental oversight.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-06-17 10:32|| 2018-06-17 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Some exist solely to serve as warnings to others.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-06-17 10:41|| 2018-06-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#5 AH? Watch your kids(and yes I have them)Something can be said for DON'T TOUCH KIDDO(teachable moment?) and check previous art work of this guy for prices?

Posted by ranture 2018-06-17 11:10|| 2018-06-17 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Great chapter in Dr. Peterson's book on child discipline. Every parent should read.

Posted by Regular joe 2018-06-17 12:45|| 2018-06-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Anomalous Sources, I’ve cleaned up the appearance of your in-lines, and added the URL your forgot to paste in the source box. At least I hope that was the correct source — as you hadn’t put it in square brackets at the beginning of the text, I made my best guess.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-06-17 16:15|| 2018-06-17 16:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like a disco ball had some bad cheese and crapped this out.

Gallery has fault here; lucky the kid didn't get hurt with some 15 pounds of glass falling on him. High traffic area, high traffic building. Could just as easily been a purse strap or an errant gesture or a drunk step.

The gallery should have insurance for transportation and display damage. If I were the insurance provider I would be pissed.

If the artist lent the piece without assurances of damage coverage in paper then Bill is an idiot. And Billy, purchaser decides worth. I'd think something like that $20k at best; anything more is additional value because of the artist, the look who I have on display worth. Maybe naming the piece something else would help; dunno.

Now the parents' are at fault here too, what monetary and legal is the question. Kid is certainly old enough to know to not go tugging on thing and is lucky he isn't a bowl of soup. They failed to identify risks, and failed to keep track of their large toddler. Not just fighting off rabid bobcat risks, but taking children to a known quasi-art gallery and here they broke something, and now have their financial health in the scales vs. The City of Overland Park.

Loser here is going to be Billy when he has his stuff appraised by the insurance company at 1/10th its value, out a product, and an ignominious introduction to the larger stage.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-06-17 16:59|| 2018-06-17 16:59|| Front Page Top

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