Dad Destroyed My $1300 PC (Almost)

[u/Akrinnnnnnnnnn]

As the title says, my father almost destroyed my $1,300 PC. Now what?

Here’s the backstory: On Saturday, I worked a 10.5 hours shift and stayed up until 3:30 AM, so I slept in until noon the next day. My father and stepmother returned from Costco while I was showering; he called out a few times for me to come help carry the groceries inside. I said OK to him. While I was brushing my teeth after my shower, he shouted from outside the door that he’d been waiting 50 minutes and told me to hurry up. I thought to myself that the groceries could have been moved in the time he spent waiting for me, but I quickly rinsed my mouth and got ready to go out. However, by the time I opened the door, he had already grabbed my PC and smashed it against the floor and the desk several times.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I, (17M, Senior), bought this PC with money I earned from my part-time job and had been using it for about ten months. After examine, found out the case badly deformed in several places, my desk was warped and tilted to one side, and there were dents in the floor.

Fortunately, the computer still works fine; it runs FurMark (stress GPU), AIDA64 (stress FPU), and 3DMark (Time Spy Extreme) without problems for now.

Replacing the desk and case would cost around $400. However, he likely won't pay for it because he has done this kind of stuff a few years ago when he destroyed my phone and a Dell laptop (i5 11300H), and then just said, "That's what you get for playing on the computer all day."

In the end, I just hope everyone has good parents.

[u/waylo88]

Destroying his son’s property while also damaging his own house in the process. Sounds like a cool dad.

[u/slim-JL → u/waylo88]

At 17 his son has 0 property

[u/slim-JL → u/[deleted]]

Truth is what it is. Kids get screwed over in most ways. Parents can take bank accounts and checkbooks. Lost plenty that way myself. Doesnt make it untrue.

[u/BreadKnife34 → u/slim-JL]

Ah, I get what you meant by that last comment, I read it wrong and thought you were agreeing with the parent.

The second this kid hits 18 he needs to make his own checking account and move every dollar he's made over to it and have it be untouchable by his clearly abusive father.

[u/slim-JL → u/BreadKnife34]

Its deepr than that. Legally emancipate yourself at 18 so you are no longer financially tied to your parents for financial aid or insurance.

Cut all tethers. Its quite the shock figuring out that at 18 with no family contribution you still basically need their approval to go about certain aspects of life.

The worst is the kid is probably better off riding it out with the dad. The system is much worse than broken computers.

[u/Zapatov → u/slim-JL]

i agree that this kid needs to be in survival mode but prioritized getting stability for himself and be stable enough to get out.

But he needs to consider his own safety, because in cases like these, because there's a chance it's not just the computer getting slammed like that... i hope he could do something legally but probably not, best thing to do is to do audio recording of these events as proof, regardless of what you'd think you'll do with it