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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

You’re right, each family easily needs $1 million to help replace some of the income over the lifetime of the six women who died. Great point.

[Anonymous]

I hope the families of the deceased get a great civil attorney and sue the owners of the car (parents) as the enabled the behavior and should be held liable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I think resell of a 2019 BMW M5 now clocks in around $85K. So more at the time of the accident.

They started at around $103,000 for the most basic model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Funeral expenses and income for the families they were supporting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

How much life insurance do you have? Probably more than $20,000, especially if you have young kids.

[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?

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.

NP.. I read an article a while ago that basically said that rich kids and poor kids both have similar issues, just opposite sides of the same coin.

I agree that there are non rich kids who also speed repeatedly, even if they get caught. But generally, it's the kids whose parents don't provide that grounding, whether rich or poor, that do sh1t like this.

The difference is that non rich kids don't have the wealth for parents to shield them from the consequences, but non rich kids do really bad things, too, repeatedly. Think about kids who go to jail, come out, and go back into a life of crime.

But yea, affluenza is a real thing, and both these types of kids are a menace to society.

[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?

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.

Yea, my kid’s Subaru would probably meltdown before it could hit 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.

There’s a difference between “having kids” and “raising kids”. Your parents raised you. This kid’s parents had him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Gloria Satterfield definitely wasn't affluent...and neither was Stephen Smith. I don't know about Mallory Beach.

[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.

You are taking some big leaps in those assumptions.

[Anonymous]

According to the Daily Mail, he’d bee stopped for going 180 mph in Palm Beach County before this incident.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10732295/amp/Wealthy-Florida-teen-charged-manslaughter-horror-crash-killed-six-farm-workers.html

[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.

NP.. I read an article a while ago that basically said that rich kids and poor kids both have similar issues, just opposite sides of the same coin.

I agree that there are non rich kids who also speed repeatedly, even if they get caught. But generally, it's the kids whose parents don't provide that grounding, whether rich or poor, that do sh1t like this.

The difference is that non rich kids don't have the wealth for parents to shield them from the consequences, but non rich kids do really bad things, too, repeatedly. Think about kids who go to jail, come out, and go back into a life of crime.

But yea, affluenza is a real thing, and both these types of kids are a menace to society.

Correct. And yes, this horrible person should go to jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Yea, my kid’s Subaru would probably meltdown before it could hit 151 mph!

I have an M3 and have never in my life driven over 125mph!! (I have driven up to that on a professional racetrack).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

Yea, my kid’s Subaru would probably meltdown before it could hit 151 mph!

What model?

Subaru is actually one of the most commonly customized street racer and definitely one of the most popular rally car racers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the Daily Mail, he’d bee stopped for going 180 mph in Palm Beach County before this incident.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10732295/amp/Wealthy-Florida-teen-charged-manslaughter-horror-crash-killed-six-farm-workers.html

Makes you wonder what it would take for mom and dad take away the keys. I think this permissive, checked out parenting Will dovetail nicely with the multiple civil cases those parents are facing. Fingers crossed.