Spoiled teens who end and ruin lives - parents, please keep your kids grounded

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

We'll have to agree to disagree. While most teens do stupid things, the ones with unlimited resources, powerful parents, legal aid, vehicles with the best safety features ($$$) and plain old money have the luxury of second chances because they are shielded from consequences.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

Speeding absolutely has to do with money. Do you think this was the very first time he sped and was "caught"? I'm sure they've paid of dozens of speeding tickets, either from cameras or police pulling him over. If you have money paying a ticket isn't a big deal. If you have your teens pay for their own tickets, they learn to self regulate a bit faster. Especially if you take the car away after tickets.

There are several news stories about this young man's exploits in his car. He filmed himself driving at very dangerous speeds several times, posting on social media. Looking forward to hearing from families and classmates about this family.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the defense will claim the teen is suffering from affulenza.

This is a tragedy. The article links to a GoFundMe for the victims' families in case anyone else is interested. (Just donated.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What evidence do you have that he was spoiled?

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't read the news on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

We'll have to agree to disagree. While most teens do stupid things, the ones with unlimited resources, powerful parents, legal aid, vehicles with the best safety features ($$$) and plain old money have the luxury of second chances because they are shielded from consequences.

+1
This is disgraceful.

[Anonymous]

Kind of reminds me of the Paul Murdaugh boat accident.
If you're not familiar with what happened, "True Crime Garage" podcast has a 4 part series on it from a couple months ago.

[Anonymous]

We'll have to agree to disagree. While most teens do stupid things, the ones with unlimited resources, powerful parents, legal aid, vehicles with the best safety features ($$$) and plain old money have the luxury of second chances because they are shielded from consequences.

My own parents had plenty of money, and would never have paid for my speeding tickets (as it happens, I never got one until I was 30). They would have made me pay for the higher insurance premiums, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

Going 90 in a 65 is dumb kid behavior. "Any kid with a car" does not get clocked going 151 mph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We'll have to agree to disagree. While most teens do stupid things, the ones with unlimited resources, powerful parents, legal aid, vehicles with the best safety features ($$$) and plain old money have the luxury of second chances because they are shielded from consequences.

My own parents had plenty of money, and would never have paid for my speeding tickets (as it happens, I never got one until I was 30). They would have made me pay for the higher insurance premiums, too.

Good. So your parents did their job, exactly what the OP is encouraging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

We'll have to agree to disagree. While most teens do stupid things, the ones with unlimited resources, powerful parents, legal aid, vehicles with the best safety features ($$$) and plain old money have the luxury of second chances because they are shielded from consequences.

I'm not sure you are a critical thinker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do you wanna bet that the family tries to hightail it to Italy.

He probably can’t practice law in Italy. That having been said, a family with that many houses is probably hiding assets abroad.

They're going to need them once the judgements start rolling in. That's a lot of estates suing for wrongful death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

Going 90 in a 65 is dumb kid behavior. "Any kid with a car" does not get clocked going 151 mph.

I don't think my car would have even been capable of going 151 mph when I was 18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of reminds me of the Paul Murdaugh boat accident.
If you're not familiar with what happened, "True Crime Garage" podcast has a 4 part series on it from a couple months ago.

Agreed, except in that case the aggrieved families (for the most part) were also reasonably affluent and definitely white. I haven't kept up on that case, so I don't know where things stand. In the Galle case the 6 victims were all female, were all minorities and were all farm laborers. I wonder which group of victims will see more justice. Time will tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know. This could be any kid with a car. I don’t think his speeding has anything to do with money?

We'll have to agree to disagree. While most teens do stupid things, the ones with unlimited resources, powerful parents, legal aid, vehicles with the best safety features ($$$) and plain old money have the luxury of second chances because they are shielded from consequences.

I'm not sure you are a critical thinker.

And I'm sure you're just critical instead of adding anything substantive to the discussion. Good work!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the defense will claim the teen is suffering from affulenza.

This is a tragedy. The article links to a GoFundMe for the victims' families in case anyone else is interested. (Just donated.)

What do they need $120,000 for?