Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire A small child dumped my bike... at daycare.

my bike, recently listed on for sale craigs list as "flawless"



I go to my boy's daycare, figure it would be ok if dad picks up the boy from daycare on the cool bike. (my yard is a next door grassy lawn 1st gear idle ride from daycare, we're neighbors)

Well, I didn't count on the little boy that couldn't understand "hey buddy, no, no, don't touch the bike, it's hot, you'll get burnt. Don't mess with it."

I saw the kid trying to climb on it on the off side, hey! no, no! well...

The daycare lady's husband is a little harsher, "Hey get away from the bike! Just get away from it!'

Well we turn our backs for one second & THUNK! my bike is dumped for the first time ever.

2 small dents in the tank, busted turn signal, scuffed windshield, brake handle, throttle, foot brake, and a new set of $800 drag pipes scratched all to hell.

A little tiny human, tipped my bike & wham! I got an easy $2000 worth of damage & I don't even have a cool crash story to go with the expense.

WTF would you guys do??

the kid is probably 6 or 7..

and hell no I didn't yell at him...


I just took my busted up bike home & pondered "why?"

I don't even know the kid. G'damn it I told the kid to get away from the bike... chit!!!!

at least he didn't dump it on himself, G'damn little spider monkey....

Man that sucks. Like you said at least the kid didn't get hurt but geez. Wonder if the daycare or kids parents would have some sort of insurance that would cover. Be cool if they at least offered to pay your deductable or give you free daycare for a year.

Dave - that's the s#$ts. I would probably just chalk it up as one of those things that happen that shouldn't. Sorry to hear about it. Best, John

i did that to a bike when i was a kid

Geez Dave sorry to hear that, will insurance take care of it?

yeah I'm still finding direction on this one. My instincts on this one tell me to treat it like a lightning strike, who do you blame for that? nobody, ya just move on......

still cheased tho....

I'd turn it into the insurance maybe the brats parents will have to pay for it?

i'll just blame you then. pay up sucker.






damn kids... really just glad the little spaz didn't get hurt.

Yeah, EVERYBODY knows that we wuz all so OBEDIENT when we wuz kids Too bad about the scoot Dave.

yea when that happened with me the bike fell over on me and everybody was more worried that i had gotten hurt (just got some scraches) the bike didn't get dammaged as i broke the fall

yeah I let my gaurd down...

sometimes i'm too relaxed & trusting.

i'd still rather be this way than end up being the a-hole that gaurds his stuff like it's more important than human life.

still kinda hurts tho... speshly in the checkbook....

As you surmise, parents aren't usually responsible for this sort of thing but it might be covered under their homeowners policy...if they have one. Doesn't hurt to ask.

coulda really used a kid like you today, one that's tough, willing to take one for the team...



it hurts when i smile now....

Make his head into a fender ornament as a warning to the next kid who wants to crawl all over your bike.

Awesome Bristoe! I love your way of thinking.

yeah I'm going to bed guys.

someone let me know if anyone figures out why tom264 is cookin dog turds & posting "Yummmmm"

that's made me forget all about my bike.

thanks for that tom...

No prob buddy....I'm taking one for the team.

I am not sure what that is all about, but they say olfactory memories are the strongest. Man you just triggered a memory.

About thirty years ago we were camping in a small unheated camp trailer during early November deer season. It turned off real cold and my buddy decided his Queensland heeler needed a good hot breakfast as the poor little guy had to follow our horses all over the mountain all day.

After we cooked up a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon for the three human hunters, my buddy dumped a goodly portion of dry kibble into the bacon grease and turned up the gas.

It quickly became painfully obvious that the kibble had been made mostly from partially decomposed animal tissues. The stench drove out of the trailer, it was not fit to live in the rest of hunting season.

When I was a youngster I went out to the garage and ended up playing on the old man's cop Harley. One thing led to another and I ended up knocking it off the stand and it pinned me against the garage door. After about fifteen minutes it became apparent I didn't have the horsepower to lift a 800 lb hog off me, so I hit the siren.

Neighbor finally came over and lifted it off me..he never snitched me off either.

The weekend after I bought my new Gold Wing in '05, I came out of Wally World to find some jerk had his kid up on top of my bike.

He was a real arse about the deal. The kid had crushed 2 of the controls on the stereo and scratched the paint thru to the plastic.

I raised so much hell that the rent a cop came over to investigate. The jerk told us both to pound sand.

No problem! i turned it over to my lawyer, he got the video from the lot cameras and the rent a cop's statement.

Mr. Jerk got write me a check for $2,250.00, plus legal fees.