Kids are going to do dumb stuff. It’s just what they do.
If you have kids, you keep your fingers crossed they don’t do anything dumb enough to mar a permanent record.
This father never liked his son’s girlfriend, and based on this, his reasons are solid.
My (39M) son (17M) Bryce dated our neighbor Lana (17F) for a year, they broke up mid Jan for reasons I don’t know.
I won’t sugarcoat this, I never liked Lana, she always seem a little unhinged, controlling and aggressive, she’s always demanding Bryce’s attention.
There were quite a few times when she showed up on our house our of nowhere (whether it was 7am or 11pm) because Bryce wasn’t answering his phone, screaming and calling him a cheater when it wasn’t like that.
The thought of our son getting abused by his gf made us worried so much.
My wife and I tried to talk him out of that relationship, we said how that it wasn’t normal nor healthy, we didn’t want to force the break up because we feared Lana would lash out to him.
So we tried to do it in an sneaky way, we don’t know if it worked but they ended up breaking up.
After they broke up, she started pulling some stuff.
He said that after he broke up with her Lana didn’t contact him which was weird because he expected her to go nuts but I told him that if fate didn’t gave him a mess he better not tease it.
Now the problem is that we bought my son a car for Christmas, nothing fancy but enough to get him to school, his job and eventually college, he parks it in our driveway outside our home.
Ever since the month began we had been founding scratches all over the car, we know Lana was doing it but since it was minimal my son decided to not do anything even if we could prove that it was her (we’ve CCTV).
Still, something smell bad for me so I decided to switch one of the cameras facing his car directly just in case.
It escalated to the point of their son’s car being ruined.
Well, two weeks ago we got up and we found my son’s car covered in a lot of shit: paint, glue, feathers, confetti, the door handles were wrecked, flat tires, paint all over the windows, you get the picture.
Bryce and my wife were so distraught.
When they found they had video footage, they involved the police.
We called the police and I handled them the CCTV that showed Lana and her brother (23M) destroying my son’s car.
We pressed charges and needless to say, Lana’s brother went straight to jail, but since she’s still a minor her parents want to make a deal but I refused.
The girl’s parents are hoping they won’t press charges, but he says they absolutely are.
I don’t think she should get a way out, before the police was here she was laughing her butt off and she tried to play it cool.
If she thought this was funny then she’s old enough to face the consequences.
My wife and I want to stand our ground, they said they’ll buy my son a better car and put Lana on therapy but is not enough.
AITA?
Should they consider letting her off the hook? Let’s find out what Reddit thinks!
The top comment says it’s time she faced some consequences.
Maybe they shouldn’t have tried to bribe him, either.
A free pass isn’t going to do anything to help her.
But at least he’s a good father to his son.
She’s definitely old enough to stop acting like this.
I’m with these people.
The lack of remorse is what would have done it for me, too.
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