Broken camera, now PAY UP!

[labellavita81]

Around 5 of my co-workers went to a wedding together this summer. One of my co workers (C) borrowed her roommates camera for the evening because she doesn't have her own camera. All the girls were drinking a lot and C gave the camera for other people to take pictures and it got passed around throughout the co workers (not really sure who even used it). The next day C asked all the co workers if they remembered dropping the camera because something was broken on it..... no one remembered dropping it. She then said she was going to take it to the store to see how much it was going to be to fix it.

Forward to yesterday...... when she texts everyone and tells them its going to cost her $250.00 to fix the camera and they all need to figure something out and that she trusted them with the camera and now she has to pay to fix it.

C thinks that all of her co workers are responsible for splitting the cost to fix the camera because "someone" must have dropped it and she cannot afford it on her own.

I think its tacky to even ask other people for money when something YOU borrowed got broken. She has no idea how it was broken or who even broke it for that matter - to ask everyone to split the cost is just ridiculous. If you borrow something then it is your responsibility and yours only to make sure it comes back the same way it left the person you borrowed it from.

I would love to know what other people would do in this situation.

 

[meresal]

The camera was her responsibility. It is her responsibility to pay for the repairs. Not to mention, she has no proof that they broke it. She was drinking as well, and if she wasn't sober enough to see that it was broken when they gave it back to her, then it could just have well broken in her posession as well.

This should be a lesson to her for the future, re: her own, and other people's property.

 

[Maisie]

I would like to think they would contribute out of kindness but ultimately the responsibility should lie with the person who borrowed it.

 

[Amber St. Clare]

It is her responsibility. It is also a perfect illustration of why I NEVER loan things out to people.

 

[bricklayer]

I would have laughed at her, rude but uncontrollable. This was all her responsibility. It's disgusting how people cannot and will not take responsibility for their own actions anymore.

 

[swimmer]

I would give her a disposable cardboard one to take to future weddings.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Personally I wouldn't care who paid for it as long as my camera was fixed.

 

[Porridge]

That's insane, I don't know how she thinks she can pass the blame on to them. She borrowed it, she gave away and let it be passed around, her responsibility. End of story.

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

She's the one who borrowed it, and she's the one who let it get passed around. Sorry, she's the responsible one there. Maybe this will teach her a lesson on how to be more responsible with borrowed items.

 

[Cehrabehra]

She took responsibility for the camera and shouldn't have let anyone else use it. That was stupid on her part. She should have kept close tabs on it if she was going to let it out of her hands for some reason. Just because someone else touched the camera that evening doesn't make them guilty and it's pretty unfair of her to lay that on them.

I think saying, "come on, if any of you knowingly did this please just split the cost" and then dropping it even if no one stands up. It's possible that the person who did it doesn't even know if they were drunk and sloppy.