Should woman whose child vomited on stranger’s £900 handbag pay for it to be replaced?
A woman was flying with her young son when he threw up everywhere. Pretty standard stuff, so far.
Unfortunately things got a lot worse. The vomit dribbled underneath the seat and reached another passenger’s £900 Louis Vuitton handbag.
As you can imagine, the handbag owner wasn’t too happy about the smell of sick staining her bag, and asked the parents to either pay for professional cleaning or to replace the bag altogether.
The owner of the bag reortedly said “hope your son is ok, but he was sick and it’s on my handbag”. We apologise and she says, “no, it’s on my handbag, it’s very expensive and you need to get your insurance to pay for it to be repaired / cleaned”.
‘It was a Louis Vuitton bag and it’s worth £900!! We took photos of the bag and there was nothing on it. She said she’d cleaned off what she could after the vomit had pooled down the floor to her bag.
After landing the woman sent the family a follow-up email saying that Louis Vuitton hadn’t been able to get rid of the ‘ingrained’ smell of puke, and that they needed to pay for her to replace it.
Naturally, people in the comments were completely torn.
‘I think you’re liable,’ one person wrote. ‘It’s no one’s fault really, but at the end of the day your child has ruined her bag. It just so happens that she has a £900 bag, that’s her choice. Ask yourself if she’d said it was £10 from Primark, I bet you would have just given her the £10. This is what travel insurance is for.’
Someone else wrote, ‘your kid puked on it, so it’s only fair that you sort it out’, while another added that ‘the smell of vomit will always cling’.
But others seemed to take issue with the fact that the woman had a pricey bag, with some even suggesting it was her fault for spending so much on it.
One commenter said that ‘she shouldn’t have put such an expensive bag on the floor’ (although usually you have to keep your bags underneath the seat in front of you on planes).
‘I’d ignore her personally,’ someone else added. ‘I think more fool her for spending £900 on a handbag.’
What say you ? Should she pay for a replacement bag ?
Several month's back the "efficient" police force of my country who regularly fail to nab criminals booked a 1-year old toddler over a "crime." When the toddler came to the court feeding on his bottled milk while lying on his mother's lap, the media had a field day in their reporting the "efficiency" of the police force.
Children at that age are simply angels and cannot be accused of any misconduct. The owner of the bag should charge the cost of the bag to "experience."
mohamed: Sadly, the world has become very materialistic..
To prove:
A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when suddenly a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off completely.
When the police arrived at the scene, the lawyer was complaining bitterly about the damage to his precious BMW. “Officer, look what they’ve done to my Beeeeemer!!!”, he whined.
“You lawyers are so materialistic, you make me sick!!!”, retorted the officer. “You’re so worried about your stupid BMW, that you didn’t even notice that your left arm was ripped off!”
“Oh no!”, replied the lawyer, finally noticing the bloody left shoulder where his arm once was. “Where’s my Rolex???!!!”
Brity,
I so a post on the other day in LinkedIn. It say's,
People should love people rather than their things. To day people are loving their things more than the people.
(It was written on a different & nice way, but i just tried to give the meaning only)
In my opinion, this is the kind of sickness to the extreme.
(If I were the person to to be in Her shoes, I will only see if the child is fine)
People are so much depend on man made rules/regulation/insurance etc.,
Or let she should vomit on the mom's bag if that's a wise step for her ............
Or the lady be given the complete child ........ but straight NO for the repair / cleaning / replacing etc .........
Pay for the replacement ? .......... Would expect that she should take the child to a good hospital , pay 1000 from her pocket to the mom , to begin with ............