Toddler breaks $15K Lego sculpture - share your disaster stories here

[KateMumsnet]

Hello all

This morning at MNHQ we've been gasping at this story, in which a $15K Lego sculpture was accidentally destroyed by a child less than an hour after it went on display in China.

It turns out that quite a few of us have war stories about times our children very nearly - or actually - destroyed things while in our care, and we thought it would be good to hear yours too, in the spirit of mutual support and/or confession. So, if it's not still too raw , do share your experiences of times toddler met delicate object, with suboptimal results - close shaves also very welcome.

I am proper laughing at super lambanana written above. Auto correct I hope?!

DS threw a box of a dozen eggs out of the shopping trolley on to the floor in the supermarket. 12 eggs makes a remarkable amount of mess.

Not my DD but when I was little on a school trip to the British Museum my best friend projectile vomited over some giant (Egyptian I think) doors that we were told had only just come back from restoration

Love these I ran through a massive glass door as a child once. Does that count?

Was just about to do that Sexlube!

The lego sculptures in legoland are kraggled as they have an endless supply of bricks. The artist was probably hoping to re-use his.

The superlambananas were great.

I absolutely love this thread.

marvin yours is fucking hilarious I adore that you put your pregnant arse on art and broke it

I don't have one to compete with these. DD once smeared my £££ Nars bronzing stick thickly all over her face and the walls. I was alerted to the situation when she burst into the sittingroom shouting "look mama! My brown!" She was indeed brown, and the hallway was like a dirty protest.

Did anyone see Chris O'Dowd break the giant snowglobe in the snowglobe museum in that travel show with Richard Ayoade (sp?) It was

Sorry MN, I know it's not what was asked but here is Chris O'Dowd in case anyone's interested.

I think it's at about 1.30. It's bad.

My daughter's friend broke a sculpture in an art gallery aged about 6, they had to pay for it (hundreds of quid). After that, they, and I do a lot of "no touching, no running" when we go in there, even though its years ago now.

originalmavis misread your post and really thought you had broken a child's hand

Bertie I have Haftpflichtversicherung for my three, two of which are under seven. Am I being screwed by my broker?! They must be insurable surely, let's say my middle child scoots into an old lady, knocking her over. Touch wood, spit, spit, spit, hasn't happened yet. The insurance would need to cover hospital fees, injury costs and loss of income. Or had tourist info charged me for the pillar, that would have been several hundred euro.

maisie I am a natural cynic and sceptical me suggests the snowglobe pratdrop was staged. but many many thanks for the link. Love Richard Ayeode and now have three seasons to catch up on. Missed this show entirely. Thanks so much xx

As a child my brother knocked over a couple of mannequins in the local department store, and on another occasion pressed the emergency stop button on the same store's escalator. Mum not best pleased!

My DS hurled my iPad on the floor and smashed the screen. 2 years on and it still works - just.

when my dd was very young we went to a small tile shop and she somehow managed to knock a key out of the keyhole of a locked storeroom door that was in the shop so that it fell underneath the door. The manager of the shop was really really furious. He didnt have another key. Luckily, I managed to retrieve the key as there was enough of a gap under the door and the key was just in reach so I managed to wriggle it out. We left pretty quickly after that. It was very embarrassing at the time.

Queen genius!

tropical they shouldn't have kept the key in the door!

I can't believe I've escaped this stuff and my DC are out of toddlerhood now....it's DH and I who do this kind of thing!

I was at that gorgeous London museum once...the one which was someone's grand house...can't remember it's name. There was a whole room of armour and I reached out and touched one...and a bloody alarm went off!

It wasn't cordoned off or anything! I shouldn;t have poked it...I was so embarrassed but the security team were nice.

Not me but someone I work with dropped a box of 12 500ml bottles of gaviscon it was everywhere And the place stunk of aniseed for a week!

DS3 who is four and a half has ruined so much of my make up. We had to put a bolt on our bedroom door because he would sneak in when was supposed to be asleep and we wouldn't realise till we went to bed. Three Rockteur blushers ruined in about 3 weeks.

I also remember my twins at age two when I also had a newborn running round the glassware section of John Lewis. Luckily nothing was broken but I was so stressed not being able to leave the buggy so DH had to chase one and leave the other then go after twin 2!

This is totally a very good PR stunt. Fair play to whoever came up with it as it has worked!

Staying at my parents' house while our house was being renovated and they were overseas. I was looking after my two boys (aged 4) and babysitting my nephew (who was the same age). I found them with a novelty stamp putting little red ink pictures of Father Christmas all over the white walls. I was horrified. I spent a whole afternoon rubbing the walls with a magic eraser and managed to get most of the ink off, but there were a few pink spots around the place where the ink had dried before I got to it. About a year later mum and dad had the place repainted so the pink spots went and it was all good. Fast forward to today (6 years later), I was at their place packing up so they can move house, I noticed there is still one faint Father Christmas on an upright post attached to the handrail going downstairs that must not have been painted when the rest of the house was. I had a little laugh...because I can laugh about it now!!!

DD managed to drop and break a bottle of white wine in my kitchen streaked for my poor rune, then thought about broken glass! It stank my kitchen for days thankfully had a spare!
DD also 'played' with my 40th birthday present which was a gold and pearl necklace - one off that I'd designed - it went missing that first day!!! Thankfully she remembered the next day where she'd put it!
DD again .... Was playing with my new expensive handbag, encrusted with diamonds (not real unfortunately) and I went to out it away, most of diamonds removed!!!! She'd taken a liking to them and put them in her craft box
DS - so far so good !! Amazing as he's a four year old bull in a china shop!!

My two actually inspired a bit of faith in humanity with how the shops handled it to be honest

Whilst heavily pregnant with ds2 I had ds1 in a trolley in idea and he promptly dumped a delicate vase from the trolley onto the floor with a massive crash

I promptly burst into tears (hormones and my sugar dropping whilst diabetic) ...this lovely shop assistant ran over whilst I was trying to hide my sobbing...got me another one cleaned it up and when I offered to pay for both smiled and said "oh good lord no .... we have huge insurance for this ....it's happened to us all at one time or another "....it's was so grateful

Then just after ds2 was born we had ds1 in the main part of the trolley and we're so sleep derived we had failed to notice he had pierced the milk in there and it had been dripping a little trail for an embarrassingly long way

We noticed two really sweet asda employees quietly wiping up behind us (have no idea how long the poor sods had been doing this for)....we stopped rescued the milk and apologised profusely

Again the older lady laughed and pointed to 4 week old ds2 and said " I remember that's stage .....don't worry probably can't remember your own name....please don't worry"...she even took the destroyed milk got another one and refused when I offered to pay for both ....again hormonal (I'm not a crier in general) I burst into tears...she didn't know we had only had ds2 home from special care for a few days and were sort of scared of all being apart after the birth from hell and weeks of icu and special care and blood transfusions for me....she couldn't have known how much a bit of understanding and care meant

Ds1 was terribly impressed with his little trail of milk though lol