https://fox17online.com/2019/04/12/man-sues-parents-over-trashed-porn-collection/

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — A man now living in Indiana is suing his parents after he says they destroyed his valuable porn collection.

FOX 17 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 from his wife. 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 of 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 pornography collection.

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

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 porn 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.”

Charlie's father said in one email that his son was allegedly kicked out of high school and college for selling porn to other students. Saying in the documents, "I also warned you at that time if I ever found pornography in my house again, I would destroy it."



Charlie, apparently feeling the situation unresolved, reached back out to investigators -- allegedly sending one officer 44 emails' worth of movies he says were destroyed, listing many as valuable out-of-print films, writing, "Not Just Out of Print. But the entire studio making it dissolved, and that was 20 years ago."

The prosecutor's office again declined filing charges.

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

FOX 17 reached out to the attorney representing "Charlie." They have no comment at this time.

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Your pop caught you smoking, and he said, no way!

That hypocrite smokes two packs a day

Man, living at home is such a drag

Now your mom threw away your best porno mag

Classic you rocked it ziller!

"valuable porn collection"

What a loser, lol!

If this is an actual 'legal case', it will be DISMISSED at the first hearing unless there was an agreement to store his ( & other) possessions for some payment/consideration.

the law doesn't excuse your parents from any legal duties they may have, nor would it differentiate between a porn collection and other possessions.

False.

This looks like a classic bailment. The bailee has destroyed the chattel under his care. The bailor can pursue several causes of action in both tort and contract.

The legal analysis would be identical if the property were old high school yearbooks, ceramic unicorns, or cash.

The type of chattel is immaterial.

I wonder if they would call expert porn collection appraisers in to give their opinion on the fair market value of the collection. Since the collection is apparently gone for good, it may be difficult for Charlie to fully document what was in the collection and what condition it was in.

He could possibly get "replacement value" which would likely be negligible. But then he could argue that "Debbie Duz Detroit VIII" is a rare collectors edition, autographed by Debbie, that can never be replaced, so a jury will have to assign a value.

But the bottom line is this. Right at this moment there are two elderly people in Grand Haven who are probably wishing they had never had children.

"It wasn't supposed to be this way! He was supposed to grow up to be a highly respected brain surgeon. Now he's nothing but a freeloading spiteful drug addict trying to sue us because we destroyed his porn collection. Why didn't we just rescue kittens and puppies instead of having a child?"

There is the law, and there is what a jury will tolerate.

Movies from twenty years ago would likely mean VHS tapes. I threw out my VHS tapes when I realized there was no practical way to play them, and that there was nothing valuable enough to transfer to DVD.

I figured that most VHS tapes are nearly worthless, but after a quick Google, some are valuable -- certain early Disney movies, horror films, and films that never transitioned to DVD (the Beatles' "Let It Be" is one of them.)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/2019 02:47PM by mel.

If it were so valuable he should have insured it, or at least not left it behind when he moved to another state. I’m with GNPE on this if they didn’t agree to store it and he didn’t pay them to do so.

If it was so valuable, why didn’t he take it with him?
He could of rented a small u- haul truck. He could of put it temporarily in storage also.
He knows his parents and how they think about certain things, so he probably knew that his porn collection wouldn’t of been tolerated if he was there attending it.

He should have hid his porn better. I never got caught with mine. Gee I wonder if any of them old Penthouse magazines were worth something? I wonder if they are still in the crawl space of the house we used to live in?

If you’re going to trash somebody’s stuff, do it as a minor like when Rusty smashed his parents liquor collection.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in court.

What kind of woman would divorce a man with a $30,000 porn collection? Oh, wait...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2019 07:49PM by donbagley.

"valuable porn collection"

What a loser, lol!


Explain why that makes him a loser. And which things must he be interested in to not be a loser in your mind.

Wonder if people here would thing the same if his parents destroyed his boxed up rare booze collection, for his own good, of course.

Apparently if it relates to sex, bad.

I guess my point is, there are probably a lot of things their parents don't like about him. Maybe he watches too many video games for their liking, and the should have destroyed those, also, right?

Or maybe he should insure those video games, or hide them better, or whatever.

I have my daughter and her husband living in my shop we fixed up as apartment while he goes to school. They do things I don't like, and told them so when she was growing up.

Guess when they're in town I could be tossing some stuff - booze, coffee, coffee maker, etc. It would be good for them.

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> Wonder if people here would thing the same if his parents destroyed his boxed up rare booze collection, for his own good, of course.

> Apparently if it relates to sex, bad.

Well, two things. According to the article, his dad had previously told him that he didn't want pornography in his home. And two, what fool stores an extensive pornography collection in his parents' home? That makes zero sense. Also, apparently he couldn't hire a U-Haul and take it with him. He sounds like he is an adult in name only.

Even as a poor graduate student living with family, I maintained my own (paid) storage unit.

I can't see a jury giving him the time of day.

I would say he's a loser because he traded valuable green back money for his base desires. Desires that serve no purpose but to pleasure himself. He's awful! and it's disgusting.

I trade valuable green back money for MY base desires. Is this a problem ?

I guess macaRomney doesn't indulge in ice cream.

Exactly! He could have gotten it for free on the internet.