"boy, five, sent £15.95 party no-show invoice"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-30876360

A five-year-old boy has been billed for failing to attend a friend’s birthday party – resulting in legal action.

Alex Nash, from Cornwall, was invited to the party just before Christmas.

An invoice for £15.95 was sent by his schoolfriend’s mother Julie Lawrence, who said Alex’s non-attendance left her out of pocket and his parents had her details to tell her he was not going.

Alex’s father Derek said he had been told he would be taken to the small claims court for refusing to pay.

Two things;

1) FFS

2) can you go to small claims for £16?

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I mean wtf?
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These people are weapons

They may also be able to sue for emotional damage… the poor kid will spend the rest of his life feeling insecure. £6 million damages should cover it..

Genius! Getting to the point where nothing surprises me when It comes to ridiculous human behaviour!

Surely, there was nothing in the invite to say you ‘must attend’ and probably nothing in their about failing to turn up will result in a ‘no show’ charge.

I feel sorry for the kid who had the party – do you think he gets his pocket money withheld if he doesn’t eat all his dinner.

Admittedly, it is bloody annoying when people tell you that they are gonna attend some event and then just don’t turn up, but to charge for it…… 😯

Why would she be out of pocket?
The party was paid for.
If the kid was there fine but because the kid wasn’t there it cost an extra 16 quid?
Stupid bitch.

I could see the parents reasoning if she’d paid for a party and non of the people who said they would come turned up – because then she would have paid for a party that didn’t happen and she’d have cause to want the non attenders to recompense for ruining the party. But if one or two people can’t go theres still a party and the cost is the same whether they are there on not

well his 6th birthday party will be cheap.

I doubt she’ll bother to take it to the small claims court – £35 charge for amounts under £300 afaik.
Unless the parents of the other children had signed a contract, then it’ll just get thrown out.
If she’d phoned them up and explained they’d probably have helped with the costs, but to just put an invoice in the kid’s school bag 🙄
Now the unfortunate kid will have the stigma of everyone knowing their mum is total twonk!

They have her bank details, time for some stupidity I’d have thought, just enough to offset how utterly pathetic the party throwers are of course. That kid will probably get bullied for that shit for the rest of his life…

Pay it off at a rate of 1p per month for the next (gets calculator) ooh, 132 years 😆

It would get thrown out anyway

The law does not concern itself with jelly and ice cream.

This ladies and gents are why not all people should not be allowed to breed.

Oops, Sorry, that’s trifles!

Aside from the fact it’s nonsense – no chance – not unless Mum made the other Mums sign a copy of the original invite/contract confirming their acceptance of it and agreeing to be bound by it’s terms.

and again – wtf?

It was a proper invoice with full official details and even her bank details on it

I’d be posting that on Facebook

Kids miss birthday parties – either because their parents forget or because they’re ill or because you have no idea where they are at exit time, or well stuff really.

Get over it.

<oldfart> In my day a no-show would have meant two more home-made sandwiches to go around and one less chair for the party games.

The whole kid’s party industry is bonkers.</oldfart>

A Banker in the making I reckon.

Needs more “toff” or “barrow boy” about him but I reckon he’ll do quite well out of this early “training”

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£16? Per person? Is that it?! Oh that poor child. God only knows what impoverished life these people clinging on at the edges of society have to endure. Only £16 per child. The indignity of it. I bet they’re those frightful people you see on channel 4 documentaries, who probably spend all their money on alcopops, Sky subscriptions and huge tellies

Kids drop out of birthday parties all the time. That’s the risk you take, especially of you book a ‘ski’ party. In which case I can’t believe she is ‘out of pocket’ when she can afford a ski party for 5 year olds. I hope she gets lambasted everywhere. Awful thing to do, horrible person.

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I hope she gets lambasted everywhere. Awful thing to do, horrible person.

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Totally insane.

I bet they’re those frightful people you see on channel 4 documentaries, who probably spend all their money on alcopops, Sky subscriptions and huge tellies

Nah, ‘families on benefits’ programmes on Channel 5 are much better. iPhones for everyone!

I must admit, I totally resent forking out hundreds for a crap party in a play centre just so my little darlings don’t have to die of shame, or something.

you can just imagine her sitting at the kitchen table pouting and thinking to herself, “I know what will show her: A proper invoice, wiv bank details an’all!, she wont mess wiv me again!”

“The law does not concern itself with jelly and ice cream. “

Cough, ben & jerry’s!

I get that she is pissed at the couldn’t be bothered to call/no show.
But people can be arse’s, all she has done is enter in to a who can be the biggest arse competition.
And who wants to win that?

And who wants to win that?

I give you Kim Kardashian 😉

everyone that attended paid for themselves, thats what it said on the invite after all.

“double booked to spend time with granny”

But people can be arse’s, all she has done is enter in to a who can be the biggest arse competition.
And who wants to win that?

I think she is keen to give it a go…..

This is not news?

It just made the 10 o’clock news on R4. 😆

Did the kid sign a contract? If so, do they think they could convince a court that a 5 year old understands what he is signing?

Judging by the invoice she’s done this 1431 times before!

I’d like to say nothing surprises me these days…

…but I’d be wrong
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This is not news?

it was news to me 😉

Note the “?” Wwaswas. 😛

Ridiculous. The court should fine her for wasting their time.

Did someone mention trifle? Is there any left over?

These people are weapons

Clearly you wrote that pre-coffee.

The word you were looking for was arseholes. These people are arseholes.

Presumably the bloke went to the press/BBC with this story?

So it does seem that the parents on both sides are total weapons.

I find it so hard to believe that this is real; there must be more to this story than meets the eye.

I notice the partner is remaining quiet and “unnamed”. Maybe she and birthday boy’s mum have some history leading up to the invoice going out.

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So it does seem that the parents on both sides are total weapons.

^this

I’m still puzzled though. Surely she’d be out of pocket if the kid came or not, unless of course the kid was supposed to pay for the skiing and she had to instead. In any case, she’s an idiot. That said, why wouldn’t you pick up the phone and call if your kid wasn’t going?

The story says they didn’t have contact details.
The fact that the parents have clearly told their kid to not play with this boy because he didn’t come to the party is the worst part for me. Teaching your five year old to bully and manipulate is disgraceful. Stupid people.