This is reasonable stuff breaks if you take poor care of it , and then you don ' t get to have it anymore . That a kid so young had an iPad is very weird . That he didn ' t know how to take care of it yeesh ! . I wrecked my parents ' TRS 80 by leaving a halfeaten peach on it , playing games , letting it warm up , and letting the peach juices run in . My daughter broke her Chromebook by tripping over it . Both pretty stupid , but far from I ' m going to take this and throw it . Did he have , like , no rules for how to treat it at all ? No industrialstrength case ? If BM just handed it over without explaining this is very delicate and didn ' t bother with a solid case , and sends it along out of the house , this is just a thing that was totally guaranteed to happen eventually anyway .