grant tocalculationsfrom the UK troupe Swift Direct Blinds , Kevin McCallister ’s detailed boob trap inHome Alonewould have caused about $ 11,800 ( £ 9000 ) worth of damage to his family home .
Among Kevin ’s most memorable harlequinade ? Smearing the basement steps in tar , covering a way ( and the bandit Harry ) with glue and plume , throwing paint stool down the second - floor stairway , and heating the independent ingress ’s doorknob with a charcoal gray grill starter .
Replacing that superheated doorhandle would be about $ 130 ; repairing the basement stairs would be $ 910 ; clean up the gum and feathers would cost a whopping $ 3900 ; and redecorating the house after the hoi polloi of indemnity would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $ 4420 .
Kevin ’s otherRube Goldberg - esque yap ( like making an iron gloaming from the laundry chute and breaking several ledge and Christmas ornamentation ) would make up the remaining $ 2340 worth of damage .
And that ’s not even taking into account the cost of themedical treatmentsHarry and Marv , the not - so - villainous Wet Bandits , would demand after going through Kevin ’s house of horrors ( that is , if they had n’t died already ) .
The lesson , which by all rightfulness everyone should have learned after the first picture show ? Never leave Kevin McCallister to his own equipment — the results are pricey for everyone call for . ( And also view investing in a more traditional protection system ) .
