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AITA for throwing away all my daughters girl scout cookies after she and her friends bullied a kid into buying a $100 box of cookies?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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My daughter "Nora" is a 4th grader and is doing the girl scout thing. Her parents along with all the other parents have to handle the sales, and the field the orders. Some of the parents shell out for the cookies to be sold at various locations like resteraunts and other places of business. This years events have been a real pain in the ass honestly, but I am very supportive of the scouts and thats my excuse for putting up with all this bullshit. I also sold cookies outside my place of work, which is a doctor office, and I roped my co-workers into buying a bunch.<br><br>My daughter has been doing very well, so has all of the other kids. There have been no real issues until yesterday. I got a call from a mother saying that her son was bullied into buying a $100 box of cookies. Apparently, my daughter and 2 other scouts went to a local park and were selling cookies, they approached a kid and were hawking the cookies to him. She said her son told her, he didn't want to buy any but they were being very pushy and wouldn't leave him alone, they were begging him so he agreed just to buy a $5 box to get them to go away. But my daughter started pushing for a $100 box, saying she would throw in an extra box for free. A little guilt tripping and the kid agreed to buy one. <br><br>I was really annoyed when I heard this, I asked my daughter about it and she basically confirmed the story. She said they did approach the kid and badger him about buying cookies, she admitted to pushing for a $100 box. I was really annoyed, so I asked her why she pushed so hard. She said that the other girl scouts were pushing her to make the sale and she didn't want to be called a loser. So I asked her, you did this because you didn't want to be embarrassed in front of your friends? She nodded. I asked if what she did felt right? She said it didn't<br><br>So I did something drastic, and I think it might have been an over reaction. I took all of the cookies in my possession, and I threw them away. I told her why I did it, and she started crying. Her friends moms started texting me telling me that I was being way over dramatic and I was being a punisher. My wife thought it was a bit extreme, but she was on the same page as me that what my daughter did was wrong. Later that night my daughter came up to me and apologized for what she did, and said that she understood why I did what I did. The next day at work, I told some of my co-workers about what happened and they also thought I was being a little harsh.<br><br>AITA?

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