“We counted twelve moving boxes full of pornography plus two boxes of sex toys as you call them.”
A divorced man who lived with his parents for 10 months is suing them after they destroyed his massive porn collection worth more than $US28,940 (€25.5k).
The feud began after the man, known only as Charlie, moved out of his parents house and into his own new home in Indiana, USA.
And it was when his parents were bringing some of his belongings to him that he realised -to his horror - that they had tossed his mega porn stash.
Charlie, who lived with his parents rent-free in exchange for doing chores around the house for almost a year, had accumulated an X-rated collection of films which filled 12 moving boxes.
But his parents allegedly destroyed the lot as they were concerned about his habit.
However Charlie was none the least bit happy with their decision, and filed an official report with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office.
In it, he listed the collection’s value at €25.5K
According to Fox News, while the office decided not to press charges, Charlie is now suing his parents for $US86,822.16 (€76.7) in damages.
''I destroyed your porn was for your own mental and emotional health.''
More details about the spat were revealed over several emails sent between the family, Fox News reports:
“We counted twelve moving boxes full of pornography plus two boxes of sex toys as you call them. We began that day the process of destroying them and it took quite a while to do so,” one email sent by the parents claimed.
In another email sent by Charlie a month after reporting the incident, he wrote: “If you had a problem with my belongings, you should have stated that at the time and I would have gone elsewhere. Instead you choose to keep quiet and behave vindictively.”
But the man’s father said he had acted in his son’s best interests.
“Believe it or not, one reason for why I destroyed your porn was for your own mental and emotional health,” Fox News reported the father as saying.
“I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine. Someday, I hope you will understand.”
The father also claimed his son had been expelled from high school and then college after selling porn to fellow students.
