Once people have kids, they seem to descend to a mental state where there are utterly and completely unaware what their little f*knuggets are doing. This is how you have parents calming playing on their phone while their kids are running around screaming bloody murder. I was a car show one time and some kid's parents were calmly standing by while junior was going up to each and every car, opening the doors and slamming them shut.

My best "I really hate kids" epiphany came years ago (I was probably 25 or so) and I came out of the house to find a group of kids from the apartment complex across the street playing on my 911. One was sitting on the hood, one was playing on the top, and another was sitting on the ducktail. I ran to the car and yelled at them to get the fook of my car. Now the punchline: one (or more) of the kids was upset and told mommy, who called the Sheriff, and twenty minutes later there were two squad cars in front of my house and a couple of cops knocking on my door.

Happy Father's day.

They were at a wedding at the Community Center, this was a gallery at the center. Homeowner's insurance doesn't cover this for the artist unless they have a separate policy, there is no expectation something like this could happen. More likely it would be stolen than broken.

“He probably hugged it,” the boy’s mother Sarah Goodman told the paper. “Maybe my son hugged a torso because he’s a loving, sweet nice boy who just graduated from preschool.”

graduated from preschool, do they fail and have to go back?

so momma had no idea where the rug rat was and didn't care until this happened. maybe the kid needs to learn a lesson, keep his hands off things that don't belong to him. but he's already forgotten this incident. mommy says it's not his fault, he will do it again.

It's not my kids fault!!!!

I agree, it's the parents fault.....

I would go put a beat down on the kids parents Thom.

Imagine it was cars and coffee, instead of a community center,

And a 1972 911s instead of a sculpture.

The kid and/or his parents need to be rotisseried over a BBQ.

Hm, where is the problem?
Your kid damaged a sculpture. You and/or your insurance have to pay for it.
End of the show.
Why discuss at all?
Show some f*cking responsibility!

Just saw a brief clip of the statue falling on the local news...'bout all I know...

....but I know this...if yer kid just "...graduated from kindergarten"....I wish him well...he couldn't pick his parents :(....

....no kids....I'm an expert on 'em ;)

Oh yesh....he was copping a feel...SM nailed it!

Would an "umbrella" policy cover the parents on this one? Is the community center policy or the artist's policy on the hook here?

My guess is that the community center's insurance will cover the initial loss, then go after either the parents' homeowner's insurance policy or them directly. Yes, I would think an umbrella policy would cover the loss if the homeowner's insurance did not.

everyplace I show something I sign a waiver, they are not responsible. if you want insurance it is a separate policy, my homeowners doesn't cover these things.

A guy I know has three kids. he used to bring Them over to the house to go swimming or whatever.
As soon as he got there, he let his kids loose and did not pay any attention to them whatsoever, he just let the run wild. I watched them but he didn't. I'd stop them when they were getting into stuff they shouldn't, I'd stop them when they were touching things they shouldn't, but he was oblivious.
I ended up telling him that he was welcome but his kids were not unless they were supervised. he was o'ffended and doesn't come around anymore. PROBLEM SOLVED.

Bad parents raise bad kids.
It is the parent's fault they raised an out of control monster, not the museum's.

Maybe Jr will be on a leash now, and some snowflake (non-parent) will have a chit coniption over that, and sue the parents also. Definately the parents fault, but risk elimination should have been practiced on both ends.

Oh, Yeah. Imagine if the kid had been killed how the liability would have shifted.

It is a glass sculpture, not a jungle gym
You can't argue with math.

0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25

QED