A family has been forced to fork out 33,600 Hong Kong dollars – US$4,255 – following their son allegedly broke a 1.8-meter figure of a golden teletubby doll in a toy store, in an incident that has sparked controversy in the media.
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The Cheng family was in a well-known store when the huge doll fell to the ground and broke into pieces and those responsible for the establishment blamed one of the couple’s two children, a 5-year-old boycollects the digital newspaper Hong Kong Free Press.
Videos and photos posted on social media show the little boy paralyzed and staring in amazement at the “catastrophe” for which his parents had to pay full price for the golden and now decapitated doll.
However, following seeing the video of the exact moment of the incident -which occurred on Saturday-, the father maintains that it was not his son’s fault and demands that the toy store return the enormous sum he paida petition to which hundreds of Internet users have joined who do not believe that the five-year-old should be blamed for what happened.
Also, Mr Cheng assured that his son is still traumatized by the incident and constantly asks him “why the doll is so terrifying”.
Most Internet users have sided with the family and many of them accuse the store of deceiving the Chengs and of having deliberately placed such a delicate doll in a passageway without any kind of barrier or protection. .
Others, however, believe that the parents should have better watched the child.
The company that owns the toy store alleges that the giant “teletubby” had been on display in the same place since November and that had not been a “nuisance to customers”although he acknowledges that they will learn from experience “to prevent this type of accident from happening once more.”
According to a lawyer quoted by local media, the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Hong Kong is ten years old, so whoever was at fault, the toy store should not have forced the parents to pay for the doll, or whatever. remained of him.
