By Anonymous - 05/12/2014 13:44 - United States - San Bruno

Today, my neighbor showed me footage of my 7-year-old son spraying his beloved rose garden with weed killer. The whole garden is dead as fuck, and I'm now being taken to small claims court. FML
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BI4ze 17

How would a 7 year old get access to weed killer?

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smokecloud_ 37

He's 7. He should know right from wrong and to stay out of other people's property. Rose gardens aren't cheap and the neighbor probably spent a lot of time on it. I'd be pissed too, 7 year old or not.

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laserokhaos 0

Cite the tender years doctrine in court. Children 7 and under can't generally be held liable for negligent acts. The only caveat is if you failed to adequate supervise him, but as long as your justification is strong your defense should hold. You're lucky he's 7, the legal standard changes at 8.

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jackycat 17

I'm pretty sure the fact the kid had time to gain access to weed killer, go to the neighbors house and spraying enough to kill the entire garden says not adequately supervised.

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Shopduster 9

You deserve it, it's your kid. No matter the age under 18 the parent is always responsible

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blackonblight 32

21 in some states, at least financially, iirc.

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danm19 15

Pretty sure the judge is gonna just laugh this out of court. Let's hope it's put on one of the stupid tv shows so we can watch it.

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jackycat 17

My neighbor got a $15,000 settlement when her next door neighbor mowed down all her prize winning roses. If the neighbor does competitions, and does well, it's seen as a loss of income.

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BobRyder 24

Why would you even let that go to court? Your ******** kid destroyed something beautiful, you should apologize and pay for it then take parenting classes. Or at least have the common sense to lock up toxic chemicals, what if your 7 year old was stupid enough to drink it?

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demonfacee 14

Your son must really hate your neighbor. This is why we keep chemicals away from little kids.

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iwadasn 32

Well, maybe you should have taught your child to respect other people's property.

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Lolgrrl 20

Time to build a fence.... Add this to a long list of why I'll never have children.

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Sevvr27 1

Maybe you shouldnt have raised him to be an asshole

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TessTickles 8

CPS should be called on you. You can't leave a 7-year-old child unsupervised. Expecially around chemicals/poisons.

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thurak126 0

Seriously? When I was 7 or younger my parents let me take myself to the park by myself to make friends with who ever was there at the time. Usually I would go s few times a week. When I was 5 I would play in the road/front garden. There was a very low speed limit with signs saying children playing.

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mimii00 10

I often wonder if people who leave comments like this, even have children. I watch my daughter like a hawk, but leave her safely in her playroom for one second while heaven forbid I go take a pee, and she's climbing something, or finding the one thing she can't have that I forgot to put away, or breaking the child locks off the drawers. It only takes a second for something to happen. Don't be a dick and make a parent feel worse then I'm sure they already do.

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Rababco 29

Parents can't watch their kids all the time. My brothers and I would play outside or in the basement when we were younger and our parents didn't watch us constantly. I do agree that OP needs to keep chemicals, like weedkiller out of his son's reach. He may have been trying to help his neighbor by killing the weeds and not understanding that it would kill the roses too. This means the son doesn't understand the harm these chemicals can do and shouldn't be allowed near them.

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