• golamas1999@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just remember Ethan Couch in 2013 diagnosed with Afluenza, A condition where someone is too rich to understand the consequences of their actions.

    He was 16. He and a bunch of friends went to Walmart. They stole beer and drove drunk. He killed 4 people on the side of the road. A passenger in his car suffered brain damage and was paralyzed.

    This kid was sentenced with a 10 year parole. He violated that parole by going to a party to drink. He and his mom fled to Mexico to avoid punishment. He was captured and then given a 720 day sentence in prison.

    He murdered 4 people and paralyzed one of his friends. He got parole. Violated parole. Fled the country. And then was given 2 years in prison.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    On a side note: this is also why teenagers should not be driving cars. She was 17 and able to driver her friends around? WTH?

    Until she’s 18 she should not have a driver’s license

    Once 18 she should, until 21, only be able to drive around with an adult over 21 next to her to monitor her driving

    Cars are 2 tonnes of death on wheels, why do we allow irresponsible teenagers to play around with that?

    Well then again, this is the US were talking about, teenagers can get near military grade weapons as well and nothing ever goes wrong with that, so what am I complaining about rite?

    • Johanno@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      In Germany you can drink beer before you can drive a car. Usually people still will kill people with a car when they are old enough to drive. Drunk or not.