25-year-old cousin gets sued after throwing similarly-aged woman in pool ruining her brand-new $6k hearing aids: 'He refused to pay, so I took him to court. I won'

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    "He refused to pay, so I took him to court. I won."
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    AITAH for suing my cousin for 6K to pay for my hearing aides after he threw me in the pool My family is all on my cousins side for this issue, and I wanted some outside judgement. My cousin (25m) has always been the golden child of our generation. He's funny, good looking, and out going, not to mention a boy amongst girls. He's always loved to mess around and play pranks. For the record, I really dislike this cousin. I think he's irresponsible, childish, and annoying.
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    I have had hearing problems for years. I recently got a $6,000 pair of hearing aides. Recently at my grandmothers birthday party we were all eating and drinking on the back porch. My grandmother has a pool. My cousin decided he was going to throw me in the pool because it would be funny to ruin my hair that I just got done that day. I repeatedly told him to stop and put me down, in a very serious and not playful at all tone.
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    He threw me in the pool, and my hearing aides were ruined. Afterwords when I told him what happened he basically said whoops, didn't know you had hearing aides now. When I told him the cost of them and that he would have to replace them he freaked out, and said no way.
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    My family didn't want me to make him pay for them because i significantly out earn him and also everyone else in the family. He was in college at the time, barely making ends meet in a call center job. His girlfriend and him have a baby and they live in a one bedroom apartment.
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    He refused to pay, so I took him to court. I won. He refused to make the payments after, so I took him back to court and his wages are now being garnished for the maximum amount, which is 20% of his total wages. It pushed him over the edge of what he could afford, so he's had to work extra and drop out of college to be able to pay their rent.
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    My family is absolutely fuming at me. I think he made one bad choice after the other, and he has never given a sincere apology during this whole ordeal. Had he gave a real apology after the incident and asked if he could wait till he finished school to pay me back I would've been fine with it. But the entitled little is digging his feet in at every move. AITAH? The only reason I could see me maybe being the is because it's affecting his child and girlfriend.
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    Scary-Welder8404 • 5h ago NTA A man fixes what he breaks. It's basic eggshell skull theory motherfur, cope.
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    Lonely-World-981 • 5h ago NTA Reminder, the courts sided with you. Toxic families always protect an abuser and blame the victim.
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    • millymollymel 4h ago • So if he'd broken a wheel chair that someone needed to get around, he and the family would think it's ok not to replace it? Because it's hearing aids, equipment that you need to be able to hear and function in your day to day life they think it's ok for him to just say whoops and get away with it. NTA
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    But your family is the worst. I can't believe they would enable him like that. If they all think it's so hard on him, why are they not all chipping in to pay off his debt? I'm sorry you have a family of selfish !
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    miasdeepertruths • 5h ago • NTA. your cousin ruined your $6,000 hearing aids despite your warnings so it's fair to expect him to pay for the damage while it's unfortunate the situation affects his family he refused to take responsibility or apologize. you gave him a chance before taking legal action, and the consequences are his own doing. you're just holding him accountable for something that directly impacts your life
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    Ellymorex . 5h ago. NTA, he literally threw you in a pool after you told him not to. Like, it's not just some prank when it ruins $6k worth of hearing aids. Yeah, it that his life got harder, but that's not your fault - it's his for not taking responsibility. Maybe if he wasn't being so entitled and actually apologized, things would be different. Actions have consequences, even for "funny" cousins.
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    Pschulman · 5h ago . NTA. He played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.

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