but you can pick them... off. *laughs maniacally*

*'em. It's a shortened version of "them."

^ pedant

Sounds to me like she isn't sorry at all

I have a feeling she would still break it. Something along the lines of "if you would have let me used it, maybe I wouldn't have broken it."

My sister has pulled that line on me. You really can't win, especially when your 'father' backs up everything she does. Good luck OP.

Exactly. She'll probably just take it anyway.

Oh crap yes. If I had a dollar for every time my father backed up my little sister I would have already moved out.

Better yet take hers and make it yours OP. if she didn't want her phone taken then maybe shouldn't leave it lying around.

No. Then everybody just end up with a pile of broken shit. Because the sis will in turn b break something else. Better solution is to take her to court

Well assuming they're living with their parents then if he did that his parents would most likely side with her and not him

Honestly, this sounds like a pretty decent form of retaliation... An eye for an eye is fair... Besides, she's gonna have to learn to respect other people's property eventually

Or over 70, because the thought of senior citizen siblings fighting like that seems funny to me.

why not both?