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car windscreen chip, who is liable

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  • odemwingie5
    odemwingie5 Posts: 33 Forumite
    AdrianC wrote: »
    We're talking about a 4yo, next to a road.
    we're talking about a 4 year old in a front garden in a cul de sac actually he never left the front gardens
  • GabbaGabbaHey
    GabbaGabbaHey Posts: 1,107 Forumite
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    i simply asked legally where i stand, if it was beyond doubt i would pay up
    Whatever about where you stand legally, how about where you stand morally?

    Your kid damaged other people's cars. Man up and pay for the damage.
    Philip
  • reeac
    reeac Posts: 1,430 Forumite
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    No, no, your spelling. ("they're"when you mean "their").
  • dannyrst
    dannyrst Posts: 1,519 Forumite
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    Whatever about where you stand legally, how about where you stand morally?

    Your kid damaged other people's cars. Man up and pay for the damage.

    According to someone else.

    I could say the OPs kid damaged my car too, am I allowed a hand out off him?
  • odemwingie5
    odemwingie5 Posts: 33 Forumite
    Whatever about where you stand legally, how about where you stand morally?

    Your kid damaged other people's cars. Man up and pay for the damage.
    morally i would pay up if it was beyond doubt, i've explained this earlier on, basically the first chip that has been shown to me i do not believe was caused by my son and i have been backed up by autoglass as being "very unlikely" and needing a "substantial velocity" which instantly puts doubt in my mind towards the entirety of the incident,
  • Silver-Surfer_2
    Silver-Surfer_2 Posts: 1,850 Forumite
    we're talking about a 4 year old in a front garden in a cul de sac actually he never left the front gardens


    How can you be sure of that if you never saw throw the stones?
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,043 Forumite
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    so if someone is trying to claim for a chip that in all probability was already there and they know this in my opinion, why would i entertain anything they say being the truth?

    Have you inspected and evidenced the damage?

    The chip is easy to do and cheap to fix - get them to fix it through their insurance and re-imburse them. The new screen is a different matter, but you'd need to confirm with an expert if it can be repaired.
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 16,043 Forumite
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    we're talking about a 4 year old in a front garden in a cul de sac actually he never left the front gardens

    How did he get to the neighbours stones then?

    How sure are you that he didn't do it? 50/50? 75/25?
  • foxy-stoat
    foxy-stoat Posts: 6,879 Forumite
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    Can you not take away your child's I Phone 6, I Pad Air/whatever, PS4 and Xbox 1 and sell them all to pay for the damage. That'll learn him !
  • dannyrst
    dannyrst Posts: 1,519 Forumite
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    foxy-stoat wrote: »
    Can you not take away your child's I Phone 6, I Pad Air/whatever, PS4 and Xbox 1 and sell them all to pay for the damage. That'll learn him !

    :rotfl: You're incredible.
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