25-year-old destroys $6,000 hearing aids by throwing cousin into pool, she demands he reimburse and takes him to court: “He had to work extra and drop out of college”

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 31, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Guys tend to be a bit more reckless than women, they tend to enjoy rough-housing, playing around, fighting, wrestling, or anything else physical. Some women may enjoy this aggressive outlet of play and testosterone, and some may not. Even some men may find this behavior absolutely deterring and degenerate. We all know the phrase, "boys will be boys." What are we really saying? It really feels like this phrase is more of an excuse than anything else. Maybe this is part of why adult men have never questioned their actions and behaviors, and refuse to do the inner work, or see how they could be responsible for a situation. It's a tale as old as time that men want to believe the woman is the one who's coming to them with all their problems. News flash, boys: you're causing more problems than you think. 

To hide behind the veil of innocence and ignorance is what boys do, so why even bother calling them men? In the story below, it centers around a grown man and his inability to take responsibility for his erroneous actions. He chose to throw his cousin into the pool and destroy her expensive hearing aids, and he should be responsible for paying for them. 

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    AITAH for suing my cousin for 6K to pay for my hearing aides after he threw me in the pool

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    My family is all on my cousins side for this issue, and I wanted some outside judgement.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Recently at my grandmothers birthday party we were all eating and drinking on the back porch. My grandmother has a pool. My
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    DO
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    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
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    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
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    it. But the entitled little is digging his feet in at every move.
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    AITAH? The only reason I could see me maybe being the a hole is because it's affecting his child and girlfriend.
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    ElonsRocket22 NTA. Where he f ed up was not negotiating a payment plan with you that he could afford after he did it. A 20% garnish is a harsh way to learn his lesson, but he earned that lesson.
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    Scary-Welder8404 NTA A man fixes what he breaks. It's basic eggshell skull theory cope.
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    millymollymel So if he'd broken a wheel chair that someone needed to get around, he and the family would think it's ok
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    not to replace it? Because it's hearing aids, equipment that you need to be able to hear and function in your
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    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?
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