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Is there such a thing? I have an entry if they exist.

My sister was hosting a couple with two kids, and they got a small gift for each of the kids. Since these are her husband's hunting buddies, she knew the 6-year-old would be allowed to have a slingshot. She told the boy if she saw him aiming it at his brother, she'd confiscate it. The boys' mother said that he couldn't shoot it in the house.

So the ground rules had been set. HOWEVER, my b-i-l, the Master of the House, takes the slingshot and a hazelnut and aims at a cardboard box that held their video games that they had pulled out for the boys' amusement. And he hits the box with the nut. Then the nut ricocheted off the box and hit the $1700 big-screen TV, causing the screen to spiderweb. It is now unwatchable.

My sister had been scraping and struggling until she took a second job, so the TV was only 3 months old and not paid for yet. The warranty will not cover dumbassitude.

I think the bigger crime was buying it in the first place, and to compound the felony, they will buy another, but the hazelnut slingshot story belongs in the Annals of Dumbassitude.

Well, at least he didn't shoot his eye out.....

There is nothing in the broadcast world that justifies watching it on a $1700 TV though..... and if there's anyone who honestly thinks there is, they deserve their own folder in this file....

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So what are the odds that they had Homeowners or Renter's insurance.

Twenty-five to thirty years from now those two kids will tell this tale to THEIR kids, thus possibly saving a brand new 2.7 million $$$ ecto-plasmic 3-D wall sized viewer.

Because it's for certain that this will never be forgotten. Dumbassitude lives forever.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:So what are the odds that they had Homeowners or Renter's insurance.

Since we are talking about dumbassitude, zero.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:So what are the odds that they had Homeowners or Renter's insurance.

Definitely homeowner's, but the TV was three months old and might not have been added to the policy. I think ours requires a rider for that kind of stuff, which I wouldn't buy in the first place. I'm not into jewelry or big-ticket electronics, so I'm not worth burgling. Unless you're into Disney Princess merchandise, and then you've come to the right place.........

What could be more awesome than having Insurance and not being covered cause you didn't call the company to report your largest purchase in years!!!!!!!!!!!

The new version of A Christmas Story,

You'll shoot your LCD out, Kid.

MBFFB® says he would like to borrow the slingshot.....

Anything I buy on my MasterCard is covered for anything, even hazelnuts, for double the manufacturer's warranty.

Bob Juch wrote:Anything I buy on my MasterCard is covered for anything, even hazelnuts, for double the manufacturer's warranty.

Even if a squirrel steals them?

It's really too bad you didn't get this on video - it would be a hit on Youtube.

Too bad your sister didn't set any ground rules for your BIL.