I know this is long, but please bare with. I really need a little advice right now. (It's actually a pretty cool story too).
So basically the other weekend I went to a house party with all my friends. It was a boy's birthday in my year (we are 16). It turned pretty crazy and we were all tipsy but not like completely off our heads. Anyway, the house was damaged a little but not as much as they are making it out to be (we cleaned most of it up in the morning).
The only things that I know were damaged that we couldn't do anything about was the sink, a carpet cleaner, toaster and the table outside (which was already rotten). Okay the house was a bit of a mess but it was cleanable. I did none of this damage and helped clean up in the morning.
Anyway, the boys dad has sent a message to the group chat telling up that we have to pay or he will call the police. I mean, it's not much but I have to work 3 hours to get this much money and I am saving for university and driving lessons. This is the message he sent:
"As a group you came to my house, you caused over £1,000 worth of damage, you puked in it, you pissed over it, you brought drugs to it, you brought vodka to it, you smashed parts of it up and then as a group you left. There were 19 of you including Archie.
"What I should do, as a parent, is contact all of your parents and tell them what happened. Tell them about the drugs and vodka, tell them about the urine and vomit, tell them about the smashed bathroom furniture, ripped sofas and used tampons left for me to clean up, tell them about the smashed photo frames, smashed table, deliberately smashed bottles, the snot over my computer keyboard and wiped on my pc screen, the carpets filled with vomit and urine, the blood and drink stains on our £2k sofa, the broken stand and smashed chair, the urine in my utility room, the paper shoved in my toaster designed to deliberately cause a fire when we used it next............and any other stuff that slip my mind at this moment.
"What I should do is also explain to all your parents how to repair the bathroom sink several tiles had to be removed when taking off the broken sink and replacing with the new one, those tiles are no longer produced or available to match up, so we will have to re-tile the entire bathroom. I should tell them we had to hire carpet cleaning equipment to wash the vomit and urine from the carpets. How me and my wife spent nearly two days cleaning your bodily fluids, unblocking the bath from vomit, removing the used bloody tampons left in the bathroom (4 of them!).
"If anyone doubts whether the damage costs are genuine or not, then they are welcome to pop around either on their own or with their parents to see for themselves.
"What I should do is contact the Police to tell them that someone brought drugs in to my home and someone also brought vodka, which resulted in Tom passing out.
"I don't care who did what and who didn't do what. You came as a group, you partied as a group, you disrespected my home as a group and I'm holding you all responsible as a group - Archie included.
"What I should do is speak to all your parents, inform the police of the drugs and vodka and send you all a bill for over £60 each. But I haven't - because I wanted to give you the opportunity to do the right thing and take responsibility by paying the much lower bill I've given you and maybe a few apologies would have been nice as well.
"But....I find out today that most of you have again thrown that back in my face and refused to pay the £18. Amazing.
"Let me be clear about what doesn't happen here. What doesn't happen is that you don't get to come to my house, smash it up and then walk away without taking any responsibility whatsoever. Lewis, Cameron and Andrew who know me a bit will I'm sure confirm that I'm not the type of guy who lets that happen. No chance. It nothing to do with the money, if it was, you would all have a bill at least triple the amount. Its about taking responsibility.
"I've given you all a nice easy way out. Pay a token amount by today to acknowledge responsibility, maybe chuck an apology my way and we'll draw a line under it - pretty reasonable I think and I doubt most parents would be so obliging. But, amazingly, most of you have chosen to ignore that option. Which is fine. So let me spell out what the alternative option is:
"At first break tomorrow, Archie will be in the canteen. If even one out of the 18 of you chooses not to take responsibility and doesn't pay him, then tomorrow evening I will take the second option which will involve a new bill for everyone which will cover the entire cost of the damage and be at least three times higher, I will also contact every single parent and explain exactly what took place here. I'm not the sort of chap who just lets it go.
"If, you have a problem getting the money to Archie tomorrow, then you can contact me on (phone number) or find me on Facebook. An apology and request for more time to get the money together will get a positive response from me - I've told you, its not about the money - its about taking responsibility.
"I feel like I've been pretty nice up to now, tried to give you all the chance to do the right thing and I'm really surprised most of you have deliberately chosen not to take that option. So here's one last chance, but after tomorrow everything will change as I absolutely will not accept kids coming to my house, disrespecting it and then walking away. No chance.
Over to you.
Tim"
If he did go to the police, would they be able to make me pay? Even though they have no evidence. Would I get a criminal record?(UK).
Ask question below if you have any queries and please give your advice.