5-Year-Old Knocks Over Sculpture – Family Gets Bill For R1.7-Million

A Kansas child broke a community centre's on-loan artwork and left his parents saddled with a massive bill.

We all know how clumsy kids can be, but what would you do if your little one broke an expensive sculpture in a gallery and you were asked to foot the bill?

That's exactly what happened to one mother in Overland Park, Kansas, U.S. when her five-year-old son knocked over a sculpture valued at $132,000 (~R1.7-Million) at the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center. The family had been at the centre for a wedding reception that afternoon and were getting ready to leave.

CCTV footage showed the boy touching the artwork at the centre, causing it to wobble forward slightly. He tried to push it back up, but the sculpture fell to the floor, causing the boy to fall over, too.

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