To ask you who should pay....

[Aprilshouldhavebeenmyname]

Person A and person B out drinking after football match last Sunday.
Person A has no pocket so asks person B to put phone in their car parked next to pub.
Person B doesn't want to be seen opening car when quite drunk. Security +police close by. Could be seen as possibly going to drive....
So person B puts phone in their pocket.
Phone drops from pocket and screen now smashed to bits.
No insurance apparently - iPhone also so diy repair a no-go.
Person A says person B needs to get it fixed. Person B has no issue with this but are they a soft touch?
To you the mn jury......

@leighb23 if you’re pissed and holding the car keys you’re technically drunk in charge of a vehicle so it’s not a chance I’d be taking.

In my opinion Person A should pay. They'd already acknowledged person B was drunk - maybe not the best person to ask to hold onto an expensive uninsured phone. If person B had asked to use the phone and then dropped it then it would be person B responsibility.

But person B accepted responsibility for the phone when they agreed to look after it.

There are arguments for both sides really.

If A had kept it and just held it, it probably would have been lost or stolen. Your DS dropping it was an accident and it sounds like he already pays for a lot - night out, trip away etc. If he pays for the phone as well as everything else, he'd be a mug. I think he needs to stop being so generous with his money.

@SoddingUnicorns fair dos!

Fair enough a cop probably wouldn’t arrest you, but technically they could. I wouldn’t take the chance because I’d end up being the unlucky one!

@SoddingUnicorns don't tell me about being unlucky with police.
On my wedding day, with my new husband, the driver all dressed up in deerstalker and plus fours, driving a model T 1914..... We were stopped. Technically because HE, THE OFFICER had followed us through a red light (brakes good but not to stop on a sixpence in time). Said officer told us that he had to stop us as HE'D followed us through the lights and that the footage would show it.... to insult us just a little further, as our guests sailed past to the venue (we'd left while photographer did his bit so we could get in the venue, oversee it, have a drink and get in receiving line) the ÷&*=_,#,# of an officer did a stolen vehicle check on it!!!! Effing idiot. The younger of the 2 officers was really apologetic - he was admiring the car and talking to tony and I. All the while tony holding on for dear life to the blanket which was pinning me into the car for fear of ME getting arrested for assault and battery on an ossifer of the law!!!!

Oh no that sounds like a nightmare! Is it a “funny story” now or is it still too raw? I’d have been the same as you I think!!!

Trip away was good according to ds. They have another one planned - I did suggest it was the gf 's turn to pay!!
He didn't disagree but he is too nice for his own good so can't see it happening.
He is saving for a house deposit so may remind him of that!
Can't have him at home much longer - he is 24 this year!!

@SoddingUnicorns no, it's not raw anymore - 22 years ago in a few months 😁
My cousins had great fun taking the piss that Christmas though!!

I’m glad you can see the funny side now, I bet it was awful at the time!