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Posted on 04/14/2019 7:27:14 AM PDT by Drew68
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.
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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."
I think I see why his marriage ended in divorce.
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The porn was not illegal, so there's no requirement that the parents destroy it. But it was made clear to the son that it would not be tolerated in the house.
However, since the son was in effect a paying tenant -- doing work in lieu of cash rent -- he had all of a tenant's rights, including a right to privacy.
I suspect the court will decide in favor of the parents, but I'd be interested to know the judge's rationale.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
He sounds like a pervert, Jim.
Mourning those Ginger Lynn and Christy Canyon videos lost to history.
Kristen Bell
Sometimes you just have to do the right thing. I’m with the parents. If you don’t want your parents to destroy your porn, don’t move back home.
tell it to the guys who had his parents give away their coin collection .. or baseball card collection.. or comic book collection when they were in the military.
I love that part of Michigan. Parents should be extremely careful about helping grown children today, in many cases it doesn’t end well.
Thank you for that. It is a sober reminder of what we must not lose for posterity. We must be vigilant.
One man’s trash...
You ain’t kidding. Those 2 gals...man.
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I don’t know what the law says but if his father told him if he brought porn into his house he would destroy it then his father is on pretty firm ground!!!
“as this is a civil case without any associated criminal charges.”
since when did the media decide that civil suites get special anonymity?
Parents didn’t like it and it was important to him. He should have icarried it out first to his new digs. He’s lucky his parents didn’t destroy it (or have it stored in an off-site facility) as a condition of being allowed to move in with them.
He left it behind when he vacated. Whatever you leave behind can be disposed of by the landlord.
I would question how he arrived at the value of $29k. If he bought every single tape at the ‘new’ price...this would be a fairly questionable value.
Years ago (into the mid-80s), I knew of a AF guy who’d come out of South Korea and brought some mega collection with him (this was also like ten boxes of tapes). These were all copies of copies. I’m thinking this is probably how this guy’s collection came to be.
Too bad the Creepy Porn Lawyer is busy with his own problems. He would be just the guy for the case.
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