"Affluenza" Teen Ethan Couch Partied at a Strip Club, Courtesy of His Mom, Witness Says

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Cosmopolitan

Jan 1, 2016

"Affluenza" Teen Ethan Couch Partied at a Strip Club, Courtesy of His Mom, Witness Says

Hotel workers also said they found a gun in their room.
By Rebecca Rose

More details are emerging about "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch's time on the run in Mexico with his mother. According to the Dallas Morning News Ethan reportedly went to a strip club and had to summon his mother Tonya Couch to cover his tab.

Marina Meza, an employee at the Los Tules resort in Puerto Vallarta where the mother and son were staying, said Ethan mostly kept to himself and stayed in his room. However on one occasion, the teen stepped out to visit a local strip club. The only problem was he apparently didn't have enough money to cover the bill he racked up and club workers were sent the hotel to get his mother Tonya to pay what he owed.

"He didn't have enough money to pay the bar bill, and his mother had to bail him out," Meza said.

The family stayed at the hotel with their dog. When they left, hotel workers who spoke to ABC News said the next guests found a gun in the nightstand of their room. Ethan reportedly returned to the hotel the following day to retrieve it. A photo of the gun was sent to the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office by staff at the hotel.


Read more: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a51550/affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-strip-club/

---

(Short article, no more at link.)

[LiberalArkie]

1. I think we now have a picture to go with the definition of "Momas Boy"

[Initech]

23. I'm getting more of a vibe of "Bates Motel" with this story.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass.

Mommy needs a little time in the slammer, too. You can see why this kid turned out the way he did.

[Backwoodsrider]

3. shows us money does not make a family well

Many of us had to find this out the hard way with parents using money in place of love and then expecting us to be healthy and happy. The meek really will inherit the earth

[Warpy]

30. Money above a certain level seems to ruin them

I'm glad left me enough to live on. I'm even more delighted that it wasn't nearly enough to make me an asshole.

The very best thing that could happen to this feckless brat is to go to jail for a few months, followed by court ordered inpatient rehab. Shit's got to get real for him at some point, beyond Mommy's ability to buy him out of it.

[madokie]

4. This little punk

needs a lesson in life, in what life is all about. Mom too. She should be sentenced right along side of him for the same amount of time as he gets, at his new sentencing that is coming that is

The judge who sentenced him should be disbarred and rode out of town on a rail

[TexasProgresive]

7. Maybe Paris Island would do the maggot good

But I doubt it. At his age it'll be tough to reform him.

[Grins]

25. NO!!!!

No! No! No! A thousand NO's!

This was the stupid thinking when I was in the Army; courts dumping their problems on the military to "make a man out of him." WE got the problem, and we already had things to do.

Service in the military does not make men out of delinquents; it brings out the man in the man (or today, woman in a woman.)

I still remember two who made it through basic and sent to my battalion. NOTHING but problems. For a year until enough was enough and they were in the stockade before being discharged for bad conduct. They probably went to prison after, where they belonged in the first place.

[VMA131Marine]

31. It's Parris Island, and the Marines wouldn't take him...

nor should you want them to.

[George II]

11. She is no longer a judge:

By December, 2013, over thirty thousand persons signed an online petition to remove Boyd from the bench after Boyd's ruling in the Couch case. A year later, Boyd stepped down from her position officially on December 31, 2014, after serving as judge for 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hudson_Boyd

[meow2u3]

14. She's a repuke

It figures. Only a repuke would buy that affluenza bullshit excuse when in fact the kid is a spoiled rich brat.

[NastyRiffraff]

22. She didn't "buy" it

She was paid for it (probably). Likely retired to Palm Beach.

[mucifer]

26. On the news they said he is in a small impoverished Mexican prison

sharing a toilet with other prisoners and washing his own clothes. I'm sure it is hell for anyone to be there much less someone suffering from "affluenza".

[keithbvadu2]

38. Agree

Let him fight deportation as long as he wants as long as he stays in a jail.

Even with 'privileges', he is still in jail.

I'm fine with that. Let him fight for 20 years.

The sh_t will probably get bail, though.

If he tried to come back to America while on Mexican bail, would he be an illegal immigrant?

Then subject to extradition back to Mexico?

Dream on. Wishful thinking.

[MisterP]

5. getting some Stranz and Fairchild vibes, here

[Judi Lynn]

20. Exceedingly odd. What kid sends people to his mom so she can pay his strip club bill?

How many things are strange in this story?

[MisterP]

21. here's a story from May about these walking atrocities--a rich wannabilly and a rich wannatrophy

http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2015/may/affluenza-the-worst-parents-ever-ethan-couch?single=1

[Judi Lynn]

35. Excellent article. The writer did a tremendous job covering a lot of ground without wasting words.

There was a wildly strange tug of war going on with Ethan, no doubt about it.

Can't say I've ever heard a worse job of parenting than this one.

Thank you for giving us a chance to know more about it.

[MisterP]

37. yeah, they used him as a proxy for all their fights, his mom hiding behind him to *avoid getting

regularly strangled and/or flung into a fireplace of unknown ignition*

it's a terrifying mixture of neglect and pampering, especially when it came to impunity from any consequences--and you really can see why he had an alcohol problem at 15: Mooney's article is utterly clear-eyed and unsympathetic, but still gives us understanding of the hells all three kept themselves in and that they're covering up with smugness or aggression or playing innocent

the father tried the fake badge routine *on actual police*, *then confessed to doing it constantly*

Fred was asked if, during a 1992 DWI stop, he had told a police officer, “I make more in a day than you make in a year.” His answer: “Probably.”

too bad they didn't ask him if he'd ever bellowed "I pay your salary!" at a traffic stop

and as for mommy, it's called "emotional incest" where the parent tries to get their sheltering and consolation and adult love from a kid because the spouse isn't (or is playing games with things that should be absolutely unconditional)--and it multiplies if both parents are doing it (this also explains why people are really creeped out by their relationship--if you've seen Savage Grace you know where this ends)

[bluestateguy]

6. I'm all for this kid getting due process of law

But after he is found guilty he needs to just be taken into a barn and summarily executed.

[Frank Cannon]

8. 2015: The Year of the Superdouche

Ethan Couch, Martin Shkreli, Donald Trump, killer cops...

Let's have fewer of these supreme, flamboyant assholes in 2016, please. Please?

[farleftlib]

13. Good list, I'd just add

Rahm Emmanuel and Fox News "reporters."

[Judi Lynn]

36. We could do so much better without ones like these colossal potholes. n/t

[Paper Roses]

9. No sympathy for this kid or his Mom.

As we try all live our lives in a law abiding way, people like this get away with incredible transgressions.
Hope the Mom and kid get a good lesson about what life is really about. Affluenza? Baloney. Jail? Yes!

I guess 'affluenza' needs to be added to spell check. Meaning? Baloney.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Western culture has glorified wealth so much

that something like "affluenza" can actually work as a defense. We already saw it back with OJ Simpson and the deference he was given. And it has only gotten worse. We see it all the time with rich kids of the fabulously wealthy.

In the last decade its gotten to be a plethora of wealth-worshipping shows on TV. From the Kardashians, Real Housewives, The Apprentice...even shows like Undercover Boss, where the good-at-heart CEO hands out goodies to a few select employees (not usually improving the lot of every employee).

Western audiences have become conditioned to put the 1% on a pedestal. They are the "job creators" after all. They are blessed by the good Lord. And they all look so good (with their fake faces and hair and expensive wardrobes).

[Matariki]

12. Momma "Affluenza" seems to be a primary source of his problems

Wonder what Papa "Affluenza" is like?

[exboyfil]

28. He impersonates cops

Is an enabler like mom (maybe to not that extent). Lets dear old son tool around in his corporate truck (I sure would like to see his tax returns on that truck which was obviously being used for personal business unless a bunch of drunken teenagers were delivery steel the night he killed four people). Lets him live alone in a house at 16 years old.

[Runningdawg]

15. Does anyone think

there might be more to this son/mother relationship. I don't think most people who wanted to hide from the cops would drag along dear old mom.

[bdwker]

16. Ewwww...

That's weird.

[VMA131Marine]

32. Well, he did sleep in her room,

way past the age at which it would be considered appropriate.

[Skittles]

39. I know the best thing for Ethan would be to cut ties with his parents

I read a Dallas magazine article about that family and it was pretty f***ing sad

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. like that heir in the Dupont family - he's too rich for jail

Though Robert H. Richards IV was convicted of rape, the wealthy heir to the du Pont family fortune was spared prison by a Delaware court in 2009 because he would "not fare well" behind bars, according to court documents CNN obtained Tuesday.

Richards is a great-grandson of the chemical magnate Irenee du Pont.

He received an eight-year prison sentence in 2009 for raping his toddler daughter, but the sentencing order signed by a Delaware judge said "defendant will not fare well" in prison and the eight years were suspended.


http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/02/justice/delaware-du-pont-rape-case/

[exboyfil]

29. Not Beau Biden's finest moment

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/03/beau-biden-defends-handling-du-pont-heir-sex-case/7255629/

[moondust]

18. Having the gun

will score him some bonus points in the Texas system of "justice," right?

[Judi Lynn]

19. No doubt! They might even ask him to run for office. n/t

[Calista241]

24. They have to have some proof he actually had the gun.

Some hotel clerk saying they saw something is not evidence of a crime.

And they can't charge him for a crime he committed in another country. The Mexicans would have to press charges against him for any gun crime in Mexico, as I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever of him being in possession of a gun in the US.

[mucifer]

27. He is currently in some ugly immigrant detention center in Mexico. They

said on the news he is sharing a toilet with others and washing his own clothes and it is in a very impoverished area.
It would probably be hell for us and much worse for someone suffering from "affluenza" .

[Calista241]

33. He has access to money. And the Mexican government is famously corrupt.

His family is probably paying for him to have a nearly private room with the amenities of at least a modest hotel room.

This jerk needs to pay for his crimes.

[JustADumbFireman]

34. He's about to be the star of his own strip club.