Derpy burns down your house. How do you punish her?

[Misty Shadow 7,084]

I would prefer to pardon her, forgive and forget if it was an accident, but if I absolutely had to punish her, I'd have her work for me to pay off the damages. Like, if I owned a shop, I'd have her do stuff around there for me before she burned that down as well.

[Rikifive 23,477]

"Then Derpy gets all teary eyed and tries to apologize. She says she wants to make it up to you somehow."

I'm not sure if I'd be able to 'punish' her, especially after seeing her like this. I'd hug her and say, that everything is going to be okay.  Obviously she'd probably have to cover or at least help with the costs generated by damage she caused, so if that would be done, I'd be fine.

Edited July 12, 2018 by Rikifive

[Pr0m4NV14 837]

No more muffin-related activities until I get a new house with all new stuff in it.

[Props Valroa 26,027]

This house has been in the family for generations and I have many things in here I couldn't live without. I would throw her in jail. Burning down a house is a crime.

[Lord Midnight Madness 1,542]

I'd have to sue her for the damages my Insurance didn't cover. I believe in settling things legally not physically

[starrymiss 114]

Straight up litigation, baby.

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,832]

Well, two choices:

1. I forgive her as long as she helps me clean up.

2. Welcome to your ultimate nightmare.

[Ganondorf8 11,118]

The first thing I would do is ask her why would she even do such a thing. A reason for her motive is necessary to ensure that the next steps can be taken.

[Savygriffs 5,021]

Forgive her as long as she promises to help me clean up and rebuild.

Maybe no muffins for a month.

 

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

On 6/20/2018 at 2:00 AM, Artica said:

I'm disappointed in a lot of you, hasn't My Little Pony taught about the futility of revenge? It is detrimental and often do not solve anything.

Human punishments work as a balance for your expected gain. It works as: if you do a certain action, then an even worst bad thing (punishment) will also happen to you, therefore deterring you from the crime. However, this works only for intentional acts of crime. Any accident event can't be prevented by such a deterrence. Therefore, what I do to Derpie must somehow heal the situation, such as making her pay to rebuild my house.

I chuckled when I saw the title. "Punish." My original post I planned to say something like, I fully expect this thread to be clean, mature, and completely free of perverse thoughts." 

Then instead I feel like I found "House of 1000 Corpses." This thread is full of scary and cruel. How could anyone do this to Derpy. Comeon... she'd feel bad enough about it already and would never intentionally hurt anypony. 

Besides, I suspect the problem would remedy itself. I worked on a fic like this. Derpy practically wrecked the Boutique... in the middle of the freaking night. This had a side effect of waking up most of Ponyville though and by daybreak they were fully in musical montage "barn raising" mode.

But... OK. Perhaps more in the spirit of the OP... I have a more humerous one. "Can I borrow the keys to the TARDIS? After that disaster I think I need to go for a joy ride."

Edited September 7, 2018 by bornAgainEquestrian

[MangoFoalix 24,898]

4 hours ago, bornAgainEquestrian said:

I chuckled when I saw the title. "Punish." My original post I planned to say something like, I fully expect this thread to be clean, mature, and completely free of perverse thoughts." 

Then instead I feel like I found "House of 1000 Corpses." This thread is full of scary and cruel. How could anyone do this to Derpy. Comeon... she'd feel bad enough about it already and would never intentionally hurt anypony. 

Besides, I suspect the problem would remedy itself. I worked on a fic like this. Derpy practically wrecked the Boutique... in the middle of the freaking night. This had a side effect of waking up most of Ponyville though and by daybreak they were fully in musical montage "barn raising" mode.

But... OK. Perhaps more in the spirit of the OP... I have a more humerous one. "Can I borrow the keys to the TARDIS? After that disaster I think I need to go for a joy ride."

Yeah... Let's not get that dark. I don't want this thread to be grimdark at all.

[Splashee 28,537]

Punishment for ponies are just wrong. Even for ""

[Tom Gallagher 33,521]

'It's just a house. I'll move to Ponyville. I don't mind at all.' 

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

*throws her into the house* (jk that’s too mean)

I’d require her to give me free pastries and free mail service until the house is rebuilt 

[Widdershins 9,955]

...Wait, Vegetable Oil is BAD for fires?!!? This is genuinely news to me.

 

 I would offer to build her a house.

 Yes, despite the fact that,in this metaphorical-rhetorical, I'M the one without a house and she still has one.

  Yes, I would build her new house on top of her pre-existing one, thereby crushing the previous house and creating a need for the new one that destroyed the old one.

 

I don't really understand Cause & Effect very well.

 

[Sonic Shimmer 4,116]

"Hey Celestia? That pony over there, send her to the moon"

Edited August 19, 2020 by Sonic Shimmer

[CoryBaxter420 13]

I'd punish her by knocking her unconscious and then stealing her money and then using that money to buy a new house and then since Derpy is well to put it nicely 'Derpy', she'll wake up and not remember anything.

[EpicEnergy 22,072]

I'm not going to punish her for an accident, accidents generally don't demand punishment.

[Splashee 28,537]

Send her to Equestria High, as a human

[Sphinx-Ara 3,517]

I give her a big hug and offer cuddles, it was an accident and she didn't mean to do it

[Goat-kun 2,497]

In Grogar's Tambelon, the house burns you.

[Partialgeek514 4,920]

I'd probably give her a hug, and then all the muffins that got burnt in the fire. lol I might love her just a bit too much.

[Cash In 21,501]

I'd just tell her to pay me for the damages. Derpy may be careless, but it was an accident that came out of good intentions. No punishment is necessary here.

[Splashee 28,537]

Sends bill to insurance company, with a description of Derpy. Should cover the basics

[The Kaeya Simp 13,953]

I'd ask her to cover the deposit for somewhere else and replace any valuables that were completely destroyed