MI - Man sues parents over trashed 🤬🤬🤬🤬 collection, Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Apr 2019

[cybervampira]

Man sues parents over trashed collection

A man now living in Indiana is suing his parents after he says they destroyed his valuable collection.

WXMI is choosing to identify the plaintiff in this story as "Charlie," as this is a civil case without any associated criminal charges.

The case dates back to October 2016 when, according to a lawsuit filed this week, Charlie moved into his parents' home in Grand Haven after going through a divorce. Charlie apparently stayed for 10 months in their home, doing housework in lieu of paying rent. He was asked to leave after police had to be called to the house in August 2017 for a domestic situation.

His parents allegedly traveled in November 2017 to his new place in Indiana to drop off possessions he had left at their home.

Allegedly missing from the items they brought: Charlie's massive collection.

Charlie said his parents told him that they destroyed the entire collection. A collection that consisted of over 12 moving boxes full of adult movies.

The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office was eventually called about the destroyed items. Charlie filed a police report estimating the value of his collection to be $28,940.72. The prosecutor's office declined to file charges against his parents.

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Charlie is now suing his parents for a total of $86,822.16 in damages.

WXMI reached out to the attorney representing "Charlie." They have no comment at this time.

 

[Herat]

Goodbye Charlie...

Don’t call, Don’t write

PS. You’re not in the will anymore. The house is being left to a charity.

 

[wendybtn]

If it was so valuable to him, he ought to have packaged it up and FedEx'd it to himself in Illinois.

 

[kaen]

12 moving boxes. That is a lot of . Sound like it was a valuable collection. Why did Charlie leave it for three months? I don't think the parents should have destroyed the and delivered the other stuff. If you are valuing his property by delivering it to him, then, destroying some of it because you don't like the content doesn't seem right. They got themselves into a bit of a pickle here. If I substitute for crafting supplies, would it make sense that the parents get rid of 12 boxes of crafting supplies but deliver the other boxes of Charlie's items. They should have just given him a date by which his things needed to be removed and then gotten rid of anything left after the date for removal.

 

[kaen]

From the article above:

"Just a month after filing a police report, Charlie apparently began corresponding with his father via email. Telling him in part, "If you had a problem with my belongings, you should have stated that at the time and I would have gone elsewhere. Instead you choose to keep quiet and behave vindictively."

His father, according to the lawsuit, responded, "Believe it or not, one reason for why I destroyed your was for your own mental and emotional heath. I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine. Someday, I hope you will understand.”

Not sure you can just destroy someone's belongings. Not have them in your house, totally, but to destroy without warning may mean that Charlie has some standing here.

 

[Herat]

Even if he wins, he loses.

Charlie will now always be googleable as a addict and can expect to face issues with any job, housing applicatio, or social app he ever joins. Apartment housing with kids or roommates may not want him around.

 

[kaen]

Even if he wins, he loses.

Charlie will now always be googleable as a addict and can expect to face issues with any job, housing applicatio, or social app he ever joins. Apartment housing with kids or roommates may not want him around.

I assume that Charlie is his case name. It sounds like he has been a pro- person since high school. I would think that all who know him by his full, real name know that he has an affinity. I don't think he hides it. I am more interested in the domestic dispute that caused him to have to leave that would make me more concerned for his future roommates and partners.

 

[monkey222]

VHS? If so, not worth much and difficult to dispose of in this decade, at least where I live . Where I live electronics including cd cases, vhs tapes, cassette tapes cannot be put in trash, cannot go to curbside with recyclables. Even electronic recycling places that we have to pay to take tvs will not take vhs tapes or cd cases.

I wonder how parents destroyed them?

 

[LadyL]

VHS? If so, not worth much and difficult to dispose of in this decade, at least where I live . Where I live electronics including cd cases, vhs tapes, cassette tapes cannot be put in trash, cannot go to curbside with recyclables. Even electronic recycling places that we have to pay to take tvs will not take vhs tapes or cd cases.

I wonder how parents destroyed them?

really??
so what are you supposed to do with them?
my husband never wants to throw away music so we have boxes of tapes and cds and movies ... ugh