A Michigan judge ruled in favor of a man suing his parents for monetary damages for throwing away his porn stash.
David Werking, 42, moved back in with his parents Beth and Paul Werking in Michigan after a divorce. After he moved back out, David Werking expected his parents would ship his belongings - including his treasure trove of porn magazines and sex toys - to his new place in Indiana.
Instead, they informed him they had disposed of it. “Frankly, David, I did you a big favor getting rid of all this stuff,” Paul Werking wrote in an email.
David Werking estimates the porn collection is worth about $29,000, according to the Associated Press. “This was a collection of often irreplaceable items and property,” David’s attorney, Miles Greengard, said. The parties have until mid-February to submit written submissions for damages.
One sees that stuff as being garbage, and it _is_ their house, not his storage facility.
The other is the owner of the property, who had an assumption that once he was capable of being completely on his own, he would retrieve all of his belongings without expectations.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
But if your parents have agreed to let you store your stuff at their place, and you've taken care of neatly stacking it in an out-of-the-way place with their approval, and they then go through it and throw stuff out...
(If you've moved out and left stuff in piles on every horizontal surface in your former bedroom, and they have to clean it up before they can make any other use of the room, that would be rather different.)
