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Hey, Rich Kids: If You Get Wasted and Kill People With Your Truck Blame It On “Affluenza”
Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2013 | Doug Giles

Posted on 12/15/2013 9:48:56 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: tuffydoodle

Ya shows yer dumbness, ya takes yer lumps.


101 posted on 12/15/2013 12:42:43 PM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: sport

Hope it’s 40 miles long.


102 posted on 12/15/2013 12:43:46 PM PST by GunsareOK
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To: yldstrk

He should die if he set about trying to kill four people. His depraved indifference is worth a long stretch in jail.


103 posted on 12/15/2013 12:46:59 PM PST by GunsareOK
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To: ontap

Agree. Hope his mom received good money for the car and that the insurance covered the damage to the light pole.


104 posted on 12/15/2013 12:48:15 PM PST by GunsareOK
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To: Black Agnes

The State of Alabama will throw the book at you if you are caught DUI.


105 posted on 12/15/2013 12:50:14 PM PST by sport
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To: yldstrk

I don’t care whether the kid has money or not. This was an injustice to the victims. Wouldn’t you be happier on a liberal website?


106 posted on 12/15/2013 12:54:23 PM PST by GunsareOK
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To: GunsareOK

I will agree to that.


107 posted on 12/15/2013 12:58:58 PM PST by sport
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To: yldstrk

“neither of you need ever address me again unless you apologize first”

Oh for God’s sake put on your big girl panties and stop acting like little thin skinned barry sotero already.

There are plenty of people who have gone to jail impaired or not for vehicular manslaughter. Then there are the underage drinking and shoplifting laws he broke too. You choose to ignore ALL of those facts and give him a taxpayer funded trip to a resort.

As what has been pointed out, if it were Billy Joe Bob Toothless living in a single wide he’d have the book thrown at him for his actions.


108 posted on 12/15/2013 1:03:10 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Impeach 0bama)
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To: tuffydoodle

yes, this is how communities end up stoning adulterers

anyway, they can all kma


109 posted on 12/15/2013 1:14:12 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ontap

NO! Parts of trees are used, the scrap parts, the bark and the saw dust.


110 posted on 12/15/2013 1:34:03 PM PST by Eva
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To: sport

And a good thing too. This kid was on track to be a multi repeat offender.

Who knows how many innocent victims didn’t die because some judge had the huevos to do the right thing in spite of the money this kid’s family had.

Justice is portrayed as blind. ‘Affluenza’ picks up that blindfold and tosses it in the garbage.


111 posted on 12/15/2013 1:35:51 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Kaslin

Why limit the killing instrument to a truck? Affluenza can cross all weapon lines.

“Your Honor, my client shot those 86 innocent schoolchildren because his parents never told him no.”

“Okay, we’ll overlook this little contretemps this time. But the court cautions your client that it will begin to consider taking a dim view if these things continue, unless he can get some help.”


112 posted on 12/15/2013 1:36:09 PM PST by DPMD
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To: Kaslin
Didn't Ted Kennedy suffer from affulenza when he drove Mary Jo off the Chappaquiddick Bridge and drowned her? Also, what about that Kennedy kin that took a golf club and whacked somebody to death?

That family has sure done a lot of suffering on account of being so rich.

113 posted on 12/15/2013 1:48:41 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Kaslin

I think this whole story is a red herring by the left to get us stirred up.


114 posted on 12/15/2013 2:48:22 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Kaslin

Affuenza in the kid.

Influenca in the judge caused by a massive injection of cold cash in his bank account.


115 posted on 12/15/2013 2:56:11 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas

sigh

as I already said, no I haven’t killed anyone by any fashion

nor do I have any duis

nor any kids who are alcoholics

I am not condoning anything

I am explaining to the excitable what happened in court, the whole picture

1) he’s underage
2) it’s not a pattern—yet
3) the insurance paid the damages
4) he was impaired so he couldn’t form the requisite intent—murder is a specific intent crime
5) his money had nothing to do with it
6) his parents didn’t tell him to drink and drive

but if all a y’all want to scream and get red in the face and call me names, go for it

but it makes no difference


118 posted on 12/15/2013 4:51:06 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

>> 1) he’s underage

So it’s OK for him to kill people.

>> 2) it’s not a pattern—yet

Kill people one or two times, A-OK. But after that second time, hoooo boy, look out, you might get a stern lecture or maybe your X-Box taken away!

>> 3) the insurance paid the damages

I’m sure am glad that insurance brought those people back to life.

>> 4) he was impaired so he couldn’t form the requisite intent—murder is a specific intent crime

Wow, you’re right dude, the law doesn’t cover killing people when you’re stupid drunk behind the wheel. Especially in Texas...

...except for that whole second degree felony called “intoxication manslaughter that carries a 2 to 20 year sentence.

DERP!

>> 5) his money had nothing to do with it

Yeah dude, that judge totally didn’t buy the defense psychologist saying “He never learned that sometimes you don’t get your way. He had the cars and he had the money. He had freedoms that no young man would be able to handle.”

He really stuck it to that poor little 16-year-old boy. I heard the teddy bear dropped right out of his hand and the pacifier fell right out of his mouth when he heard the court decision.

>> 6) his parents didn’t tell him to drink and drive

Whoa, what? Dude, look out. That’s pretty close to saying he should be personally responsible, and take his lumps like a man. People are going to think you’re a Rethuglican reichwinger teabagger, man. You don’t want to go there, you’d be throwing away all the respect from your DU homies.


119 posted on 12/15/2013 7:43:21 PM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: GeronL; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA

Sounds like a modern day twinkie defense.


120 posted on 12/15/2013 8:59:10 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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