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TIL a year before “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch killed 4 people while driving drunk, he was caught with alcohol and a naked, passed-out 14-yr-old in his truck. Since then, his mother was convicted of forcing another vehicle off the road and his father was arrested for impersonating a police officer.

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