{"id":12059,"date":"2015-12-18T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12059"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:56:33","slug":"rich-kid-on-the-run-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12059","title":{"rendered":"Rich kid on the run &#8230; who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/affluenza.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12060\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/affluenza-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"affluenza\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/affluenza-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/affluenza.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How could the authorities have <em>not<\/em> seen this coming?<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Couch, a son of a wealthy couple in Fort Worth, avoided prison time after killing four people in a horrific drunk-driving-induced\u00a0motor vehicle\u00a0wreck, is now on the run after allegedly violating terms of his parole.<\/p>\n<p>Tarrant County officials have launched a manhunt to find Couch, who&#8217;s now 18, after he failed to report to his probation officer as required under the terms of his all-too-light &#8220;sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Couch&#8217;s defense hinged on testimony from a psychologist who said the youngster&#8217;s wealthy parents enabled his hideous behavior, coining the term &#8220;affluenza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All the teenager did was get plastered, climb behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and then plow into another vehicle that was disabled on the side of the roadway. Several individuals were injured along with the four who died; two of them were hurt critically and one reportedly remains paralyzed as a result of the injury sustained in the wreck.<\/p>\n<p>Couch&#8217;s blood-alcohol content registered three times greater than the legal limit to determine drunken-driving.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear that Couch might have fled the country &#8230; with his <em>mother<\/em>, no less.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/manhunt-for-texas-affluenza-teen-after-he-apparently-goes-missing\/ar-BBnG7zs?li=BBnb7Kz\">Someone is going to be in deep trouble.<\/a> If all this is true, I see some serious prison time for both mother and son.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could the authorities have not seen this coming? Ethan Couch, a son of a wealthy couple in Fort Worth, avoided prison time after killing four people in a horrific drunk-driving-induced\u00a0motor vehicle\u00a0wreck, is now on the run after allegedly violating terms of his parole. Tarrant County officials have launched a manhunt to find Couch, who&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rich kid on the run &#8230; who knew?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[162,1471,1631,4508],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-affluenza","tag-drunken-driving","tag-ethan-couch","tag-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12061,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/12061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}