Tuesday, December 29, 2015

"Texas 'affluenza' teen taken into custody in Mexico"

ReutersA Texas teen from a wealthy family, a fugitive after breaking his probation sentence for killing four people while driving drunk, has been taken into custody in Mexico, a law enforcement official said on Monday.

Ethan Couch, 18, nicknamed the "affluenza" teen, was serving 10 years probation for intoxication manslaughter in the 2013 incident.

He and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, disappeared this month...

At age 16, Couch was speeding and had a blood-alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit when he lost control of his pickup truck and fatally struck a stranded motorist on the side of the road and three Good Samaritans who had stopped to help.

Several passengers riding in Couch's vehicle were hurt, including one friend who was permanently brain damaged.

6 comments:

ndspinelli said...

Hopefully he gets butt fucked to death in a Mexican jail.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Hang him!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

You don't care if he infects the Mexican inmates ;)

ricpic said...

How is this rich kid worse than a penniless teen who drives drunk and kills innocents?

john said...

Penniless teen will not have the funds required to plead affluenza. OTOH, both kids will get all the justice each can afford.

john said...

Penniless teen would be incarcerated, and thus prevented from killing again, for the time being.

Rich kid gets off with a wrist slap and is free to kill again within minutes.

So yea, the rich kid is worse.