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"Grieving" Mother Of Murdered 9-Year-Old Spends Online Donations On New Car
Having very recently pointed out the growing epidemic of "online begging," seeing a mother use an online donation platform to raise funds to "lay her son to rest" seems like a laudible and donation-worthy cause. However, as ABC7 reports, the 'grieving' mother of murdered Chicago 9-year-old Tysham Lee used the funds to purchase a 2015 Chrysler 200 and after facing a torrent of abuse attempted to defend her seemingly callous act - "Y'all don't know nothing about me."
The mother of a 9-year-old boy fatally shot earlier this week is being accused of spending money donated through a GoFundMe effort intended for funeral expenses on a new car.
Karla Lee strongly denies the claim and commented on those who have taken to social media to criticize her.
The mother of slain Tyshawn Lee says it's simply not true. She said she did not use money donated to help pay for her son's funeral to buy a new car.
Karla Lee posted several videos to Instagram Saturday morning after a flurry of social media posts accused her of using money from her son’s GoFundMe account to buy the car. Lee says she used her own money.
The emotional 26-year-old says she bought the car to protect herself so she wouldn't become a target by walking or taking the bus.
"I told them I was scared and I was fearing," she said. "Too bad if y'all don't understand that."
“I got this s*** for my protection…I’m pretty sure that’s something my son would have wanted me to do,” she said in one of the videos. In another video, she says she was afraid of being targeted if she took public transportation.
"Y'all don't know nothing about me," she said. "For y'all to be bashing me like that, and I just lost my child."
Lee is defending herself after heavy criticism on social media accusing her of using donated money from a GoFundMe page. While she admits to buying a car, she says she used her own money to make the down payment for the 2015 Chrysler 200.
Lee said the controversy began after the dealership where she bought the car posted her purchase on Facebook without her knowledge. The post was deleted after negative reactions by supporters who donated.
"Once again, it just looks offsetting that out of nowhere you're driving around in a new car," said Aundra Lewis.
More than $17,000 was raised in four days through the donation page, which was created by a friend of Lee's to "Help Karla lay her son to rest."
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We have no comment, the story speaks for itself. One can only imagine in this mother's mind, a brand new Chrysler was considered 'deserved, fair' given the loss of her son.
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well as long as the car is black..
free shit army going mobile.
If the area which she "inhabits" is so dangerous you cannot take a bus, you might as well get a fancy new car, right?
Hope it has Lojack.
pods
An hour and a half explaining this very thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-ueR0OLlQ
The only time someone should be donating is if the breadwinner dies without some sort of insurance.
What constitutes a breadwinner, when you are dealing with multi generational welfare recipients?
So the kid was the breadwinner by the fact of his very existence? Now the mom will have a reduced income, if any, due to lack of of a child. You are probably spot on man...
I will be so bold as to make a prediction that she will squeeze out another WIC qualifier rather quickly.
Yes, you are probably right. And that child probably enabled her to get all sorts of single mom bennies too.
"Y'all don't know me" sounds an awful lot like "I dindu nuffin"....
"Tyshawn" .... seriously folks, where/how the eff do they come up with some of these children names ?!
The front of strip malls I'm guessing since I seen a Taekwon running back this weekend
A soft touch interior and leather seats does wonders in healing the pain. Not to mention the premium sound system in drowning out the sorrow.
yawl doano nufffinz knowhows gnoamsayne?
You guys know the dad was trying to sell memorial t-shirts online, don't you?
Yeah, I bought one. Hey, never know right? Could be the next Tupac shirt.
(and if pops was selling those to set up a scholarship for kids like his that was killed, downvote away)
pods
The stated purpose was to help him provide his son with a proper burial service. Considering the mother had those expenses more than covered I'm not sure why they would need another fundraiser.
If she pops out a few more and raises them to be killed she'll get a house for free.
WINNING!
As Tyshawn Lee's Mom Defended Car Purchase, Dad Sold T-Shirts Online
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151108/auburn-gresham/tyshawn-lees-par...
With parents like these, this poor kid never stood a chance...
I got news for you, Fred. This kid never stood a chance anyway. This is no different than a kid getting droned, bombed, or shot in a warzone. Or the wholesale execution of entire villages in certain parts of Africa or Asia. Or entire populations being poisoned in China. He's just a victim of the environment.
That's bullshit. I was raised in a majority black neighborhood, in a house bought with cheap finance for minorities. My kids are in private school, and I bust my ass every day to elevate them to the next level (which I acknowledge I will probably never see). There's no such thing as "no chance". I'm sick of hearing that environment is everything. Well... I may be understating, as I credit it for showing me what NOT to do.
Are they Muslim, just checking, they have a habit of martyring their kids instead of themselves. Just look off the coast of Greece, or how they press they against the fences in Hungary.
Are they Muslim, just checking, they have a habit of martyring their kids instead of themselves. Just look off the coast of Greece, or how they press they against the fences in Hungary.
Your first mistake is to call them parents. If one of my kids were harmed or killed the last thing on my mind would be to make some coin.
Not just rich . . . nigger rich.
Buffoon.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Sounds like a trainwreck (sorry, derailment) all the way around.
The story does suck, I mean, a kid got shot.
But the aftershocks make me more cynical, and reinforces my view (right or wrong) of all these "help me" scams.
Couldn't he talk to her and they could figure this out together? $17k is a LOT for a funeral. Why the secondary fundraiser?
Sounds like an "I'm gonna get mine" culture. So sick of that too. Too much of that in the world today. From poor ghetto slobs to hollywood B listers who get fucked on camera to stay relevant.
Just go away, all of you. Enough of the yellow/red/blue/rainbow ribbons, green lights, ice bucket this. Just go away already.
pods
The Western media tends to go out of its way to portray women of color in a negative light. Or, at the very least, to portray them consistently through lenses of stereotypes & typecasting. This can be rather disturbing to observe when you realize how common the mentality really is throughout the West's media outlets. And not merely the Murdoch-controlled ones, either. It manifests as a constant stream of psychological repression and public slander, joined as one.
A pertinent question is: Who are the main beneficiaries of this discriminatory status quo within the Western media? The likely answer is the most privileged women of Western society, who are seeing women of other ethnic and cultural backgrounds regulated to second class citizen status, in what seems to amount to a contemporary form of racial hierarchy. These privileged women are typically white, upper-middle class, and of a European/Anglo-Saxon extraction.
It's very telling that Zero Hedge in this seems to be no different from the mainstream media it so often derides.
"The Western media tends to go out of its way to portray women of color in a negative light."
Quite the opposite, ignorant (and I mean lacking basic tasking and social skills) black women get promoted to the top of the heap in government jobs, Plus black women do a damn fine job of portraying their own selfs in a negative light. Whoopie Goldberg for the win.
as for Hollywood, what they portray on the screen in no way depicts the reality of the degradation of the black female by their male counterparts, unless you consider "Bustin vagina's and booty slammin" a cultural thing and then there is their general lazy language skills (their grandparents seemed to be very adept at the English language) that they drag from home into the workplace that one must stoop with cocked head to comprehend in order to complete a government transaction.
So no Lars, again you as full of lame excuses which could be just another trait liberal blacks have mastered which again was fostered by white progressives which proves that black liberals have shown very little in the way of self initiative. By the way, where are all the black political giant of Europe other than the African despots Europe is always giving refuge ?
"Y'all don't know nothing about me."
We knows enough to know what you be.
2015 Chrysler 200, please. Now if she'd bought a Pontiac Firebird it might be believable. When you think about it what she's really got is a coffin carrier; they never mentioned the colour but I assume its black
2015 Chrysler? That car lost half its resale value when the ink dried.
Just just trying to make a political point by analogy
She spends her "murder-donations" on autos
and the government spends our "auto-donations" on murder
"Once again, it just looks offsetting that out of nowhere you're driving around in a new car," said Aundra Lewis.
"it just looks offsetting" HUH?? What the hell does that even mean?
Facebook as social cop in the hood. What a world...
David Allen Grier has a bit about those names and kids being named after household items, "best get busy, yu be late for school Immodium."
So, guess I'll have to look under the kitchen sink to see if I have any Tyshawn, then! :>D
They try to give them distinctive names so they can spot them easily on the police report
All y'all are jus' heartless. Ainchu' evah bin like real hurt, in you needs sumting to pix you up? Well, dis women be like dat. And iffin she decided to like gets a new Chrysler duece-double-oh to heps her wid her grief, well then, like y'all need to not be so raciss 'bout it. das all.
She should have used the money to move FAR, FAR away from that shithole she calls home.
Exactly. And you know why she won't do that?
She is too fuckan stupid to know the difference.
I would love to know the details. I would bet that she took some 72 month payment plan with minimal down payment so she could spend the rest elsewhere. Will probably be repossessed in a couple of months, if it still has wheels.
experian reports that low credit score folks are getting car loans of 150% of cost.
So she gets the 17k, buys a car for 20k and borrows 30k.
Hey--it is not totaly her fault for this. Society has created this monster to enable folks to do this.
The auto dealer loves it, they make a sale. This is also what keeps sales going.
Over weekend the sports shows had ford and GM commercials selling 2016's for 20% discount and 2015's get that and zero interest.
More of an immediate payday to sell allow Planned Parenthood to sell the parts. Does she have to pay taxes on that?
Was about to ask the same question. In this age of single parents and welfaredom, the title of "head of the household", traditionally held by a steadfast and hardworking male, holds little meaning.
<<well as long as the car is black..>>
My guess is a purple Escalade.
Nigga aint givin up her fresh wheels, yo.
Y'all dont understand the black world, yo.
Neeeeeeeeeegro, please!
Exactly. The average negro and the average white don't think anything alike. "The System" can force us to live around each other, all they want, and that'll never change how people think, or what their inherited values are.
SJW's: Have a field-day with my post, please! You people whining about it, will also NOT change the outcome, so fuck off.
Of course black lives matter, they are worth a new car. NIgger bitch says she used her money to buy the car, but then WHY did she need money for a funeral? She apparently had a lil bit. Lying cunt.
I feel sorry for her.
She couldnt afford the highly ghetto-rated Chrysler 300 so she had to go for the slighty ghetto approved 200.
Too bad PONTIAC is out of business.
One can observe the divide and conquer thing is working. Don't succumb to tyranny.
The Chrysler 300, aka, "The Hood Bentley"
Troof. That model came out during my 'Harlem Nights', and sho nuff, it was POPULAR on tha block.
And why was she walkin' and busin' the hood BEFORE her son died?
Oops.
Y'all are right.
She should have gone with a more expensive casket instead of the car.
The Optima Crown model with the white satin liner.
She should have taken any monies left over after the funeral and donated it to a/her church in her son's name or any other charity in her son's name. To take the excess charity and use it for selfish purchases is immoral and charity fraud. The later being a crime. Its why you can't collect charity for hunger kids and use it for a vacation to Hawaii, that's called fraud. Now take that sentence and insert dead son's funeral for hungry kids and car for vacation.
I just recently spent a few months in jail on some marijuana charges. (Alabama: 1.5 oz possession = felony.) At one time my cellmate was this big black guy named Emmanuel Lewis. We had an argument once about business stuff. He was basically calling me a cheapskate because I had no interest in buying all the flashy shit he would buy if he could. He was saying "if I had $45 million dollars in the bank, hell yeah I would buy me some toys." I'm like, well, you're not going to just wake up one day with $45 million dollars in the bank. First you had $4.5 million, and before that $450,000, and before that $45,000, and before that $4,500. At what point do the toy purchases begin?
So I asked him if he had $250,000, what would he spend it on? Answer: a new Ford F250, a house, etc. He was offended and angry when I pointed out that anyone who spends money like that will never be rich. I didn't know him, he said, and I was a real judgmental prick to say that he wouldn't ever be rich.
By the way, his business plan was to start a barbeque restaurant. His idea for making millions was to somehow, some way develop a special sauce that everyone wants and sell it in the grocery stores etc. I tried to explain that this was an extremely long shot idea, but he wasn't hearing it.
I also tried to explain that the Scots are the #2 wealthiest group in America (just behind Russians) specifically due to their frugality, which evolved due to their inhabitation of a resource poor land, and that my own thoughts about wealth are significantly influenced by my Scot heritage. (My granddad, whom I admire, once bragged that he could live on $20 a week.) He became angry and indignant saying "oh, so it's a racial thing then."
Yes, it's a racial thing. Dindus test extremely low on the future time orientation scale.
Gladius are you sure you got that right , I thought "Dual Citizen" was the wealthiest group in America by a long shot
I'm not sure. That statistic came from "The Millionaire Next Door." They were probably referring to people who earned their wealth, as opposed to gaining it through parasitic activities.
Man Rudy, she's like school on Thanksgiving...No Class.
What this adds up to is talking about the small time corruptability of a human soul as evinced in this article, all the while not talking about the massive, systemic corruption of the entire US financial and political system. Krugman's vapid article of the "existential despair" of middle age whites serves the same function: people are corruptable so banker/political corruption is just an extension of human corruptability and not worthy of special attention.
Here's where I make a break: a matter of degree is a matter of substance.
These stories of small time dumbfuckery are there to satisfy our self rigteousness and subconsciously set the notion that there's nothing to be done. In other words, it's a diversion - true, but of small consequence other than keeping our attention focussed away from real power and its very consequential intrigues.
Jamie and Lloyd after the bailouts when they accept their bonus checks:
"Y'all don't know nothing about me."
Ima not readin it again, but since I was looking forward to the financials all through it, gonna jus spit it: I din't see NO mention of the total proceeds of the fundraising and the payment of a funeral. If that was money LEFT OVER, then wtf she posed to do wit it--built a fuckin monument!?
That's the question which must be answered for this article to have any meaning whatsoever.
Red meat click bait? Surely a finance site would address the fucking financials, right?
Bob, in the linked article there is a mention of the financials. She received 17K on the GoFundme. After the GoFundMe fee and some funeral expenses, she still has 13K in the account. Now, if she has paid for the full cost of burying her child and the GoFundMe fee, I see no problem with her purchase. The money was donated to her. She pays for the expenses. I dont know of any mechanism where she could return the remainder to the donors. I prefer this than the traditional option of Social Security paying with stolen (taxed) funds.
If it where me, first, I wouldn't have accepted the donations. I would have posted my thanks for the intent and returned all funds. Failing that, I would donate the rest either to a charity or to another GoFundMe campaign benefiting a sick or dying child. But, that's me.
Yeah, I got the "17k in the first four days" part, but not the total. Maybe it was the total, since it was a funeral fund and he would have been buried by then. Maybe she turned it off then. How many real people would do that, though, right? Contemporary Americans, that is.
But I see no figures either on the cost of the funeral or whether those have been paid. Is failure to pay the reason the fucking morticians posted it to their page or wtf is that? Did she have his ashes shot off into space or what?
Tough spot for her to be in. Hardly worth consideration as evidence of an "entitlement/ beggar society" on a site catering to the interests of . . . yeah, Wall Street, sorry, Investors.
Unless, of course, this kind of bullshit suits the "interests" of the financial class.
Which, obviously, it does, on the old divide and conquer track, but where's the real Tyler Durden, then?
You must be one of those suicidal white men Paul Krugman is so worried about. Just want to give and give and see our country great again, and take care of the sick and the dying, and yet the American dream keeps slipping away to the point you drink yo'self to deaf. If it "where me" (sic), second, I wouldn't have asked for the donations, because I had the cash in the bank to make the downpayment on a new Christler, so I could certainly have buried my boy for a mere $4k. I would have told people to send their money to the Treasury to start paying down the debt. Find a reason to keep living, goldsaver. Maybe e will go back to pre-Bretton Woods some day, and that hoard (or is it "hoarde" or even "whored"?) in your basement will be worth a gazillion dollars and you will be able to single-handedly retire the debt, fund social security, Medicare, and all the entitlement programs.
Krugman is about as credible as our White Housenigger.
Skate,
He will now show up for his cut!
LOL! You nailed it amigo.
Who cares how she chooses to spend money that was donated to her? If buying a new car helps her life out so be it.
I'll bet a dollar she doesnt have a job.
The car is for pimpin and rides to the liqour store for gin and menthols.
First stop...new custom wheels and tires.
At least donations were voluntary. The money is hers once donated.
I beleive the story is focused on the wrong people. The big welfare queens get away with it all the time. We should post their purchases to facebook and talk about how we funded that.
If I share my money, I do want to think it is going to help diffuse a difficult situation. I gave up something to share my money because I thought your burden was too great to bear alone. When you just do whatever you feel like, you have stolen from me.
The constrant trickle of bailouts corporations get is worse because we all have to pay taxes if we agree with the cause or not. As you point out, donations at least are voluntary. Both she and the US govt. are acting in bad faith. They do not deserve our trust or our treasure.
Its called charity fraud and is illegal. No the money is not just hers.
Exactly! That's why I only give donations to ethical charities, like the Clinton Global Initiative. Far too many are just slush funds preying on our empathy.
Sarc Off necessary?
In the sense that, if people are stupid enough to give money to a complete stranger using an online platform - I agree with you.
The fact that she used the death of a child to con people into giving her cash so she could get some bling - not cool. Deserves all the shit she will cop and more.
I consider my annual donation on April 15 to the "breadwinner" in question adequate to cover these types of tragedies..
The news clip says the mother works a full-time job.
Blacks cannot live in modern society. Expel them all to Africa. They ruin everything they touch.
It paid off for my niece when her husband blew his brains out. She bought a new house, put in a pool, and drives a Lexus. My daughter paid for the funeral, her friend paid other expenses and no thank yous. The only thing the mother is missing out on are the welfare checks for her son.
Isn't there something more important to waste our time on, what is this Springer?
^ Has small point.
Alternate relevance perspective:
Up at 5, farm chores, half hour commute to office in 95 Blazer, beaver away at computer, drive home to modest home & small land, more chores, with military reserve duty just around the corner, fall into bed & repeat every day.
We are tax slaves to this heartless bitch. I work to support DeShawndatiniquishqua and her diversely sired 15 EBT SNAP chirrenz.
When does a rational person Go Gault and drop the world from her shoulders?
Apparently the answer is: when slags like this "mother" all get their new ghetto rides or I drop dead from work.
So yes, this story does matter in choosing my investment strategies.
She's African-American, so all the racists now have something to crow about.
She got over $17,000 in donations and made a down payment on a car. Once the funeral was paid for, she had every right to do what she wanted with the money that was given to her.
Absolutely -- and if she wants to try to drown the pain of losing her young son by buying herself a brand new car, so what? That's her business.
So it makes you a "racist" to think she acted somewhat dishonestly by misrepresenting her situation by saying it was for "burial costs" and not a "new car"?
Okay, got it.
No, what's racist are the posts ridiculing her for being an African American woman. Go count the number of posts using the word "nigger" or some variation and then get back to me about there aren't any racist posts here. There are many more posts here making fun of her for being black than there are calling her "somewhat dishonest" as you have. Merely because you crafted a nonracial post, that doesn't magically transform all those posts calling her a "nigger" into nonracist posts.
The kid was a Breadwinner in the family. Lets say a minimum of $750 a month, between free school lunches, SNAP, Earned income tax credit, cash welfare payments, etc. Say 9,000 a year minimum. That Nigglet was worth at least 100k to her by age 18, just off the feds. At 10 or so he would start bringing some drug money home as well
To welfare queens the kids are the breadwinners... she has 1 less kid to claim. At least with her new wheels it will be easier to find a new deadbeat dindu to dump a load in her.
What makes you think she'll stop claiming him as a dependent?
"An hour and a half explaining this very thing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-ueR0OLlQ
Saw this a few days ago. Great interview!
"He's an instrument-rated pilot..."
Ruh roh. Talk about making it easy for them to silence you...
Just watch that this morning. Great video.
It's prolly already keyed, yo.
Just another example of the moral corruption and mindless materialism that poisons our society. These are the same people that would allow their children to sleep over with Michael Jackson, and then be 'surprised' that he was a pedophile.
"Y'all don't know nothing about me."
Yeah, I know you and your ilk. Been seeing it all my life. You are taking up good air.
It's what her son would have wanted...
with his last breath... he said to his momma... MOMMA... YOU GOTTA GET SOME NICE WHEELS.... errggllll....
and remember... it could have been Obama's son! So it had to be a nice car...
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_widt...
If she would have just blown it all on crack, nobody would have cared.
I'm sure the rest of the fools' money is earmarked for that, after a shopping spree on the Mag Mile
She should have held out for a Humvee.
She claims she already had the money for the new car prior to the GoFundMe campaign. So she had enough $$$ to purchase a brand new car, but not enough to hold a burial for her son?
Got it.
Hmmm . . well at least it's car and not a black MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle) for the local constables to play with.
Amurika - what a country !
Equal opportunity welfare, at all levels -- till the whole thing comes crashing down
Classic FSA behavior. Welfare doesn't fukn work, ever.
Classic FSA behavior. Welfare doesn't fukn work, ever.
The term "mounted" comes to mind, and applies on all levels.
And her son fits in the trunk...
She put his name on the personalized plate, so it's all good. Y'all don't no nuffin about me!
pods
If she lives in an unsafe area as she claims, the license plate "TYSHAWN" is likely already taken.
How can anyone be against a 'One Child/Thug Policy" in America?
Mandatory sterilization before receiving any State/Federal Benefits. End the Cash for Bastards program.
How about the "One Daddy" policy?
Stop, this is not her son's fault. He was executed. Shot in the head and then in the back as he lay on the ground. JJust thinking of a nine year old kid lured to an alley in the way he was turns my stomach.
The value of human life is so thin in Chicago. In another week or so this will be forgotten, replaced by another human atrocity. Black lives matter?
Sad that the sense of entitlement and greed now overshadow the eroding that continues.
This is going to end badly when the chaos becomes universal.
THink about his daddy, who is a gangmember, and how he got his son shot for his gang activities. Black people do not value black lives, period. Was a slow weekend in Chicago only 28 shot this weekend.
This story is RAYCISS!
Indeed, if the kid would have been white she would have gotten a RV!
Andre over at "Transfer Hood" made her a "RIP Tysham 2006 - 2015" sticker for the back window ... so it's all good.
It had to be a brand new car, too. New cars protect minorities better.
Don't worry, she won't have that car for long. The $17k was a downpayment.
"Don't axe me about what I do with your money, none of your bizness"
This explaines the surge in auto sales
*bidness
How can a generationally useless parasite even process what is right and wrong in terms of spending free money? That's all she knows and will ever know - same goes for her brood of kids. To the average person, it's heartbreaking to see a kid die, but to her, she can sh1t another one out of her wizard sleeve at any time.
At some point the death squads will take care of this problem.
Wizard Sleeve!!!
If I'm not mistaken, the term "wizard sleeve" was given to us by one of the watchers as chronicled in the book of enoch. I think it was the same one who taught us that you could light farts on fire.
Wait until Barry invites her over to the wh for a beer.
How did a once hard-working country get so messed up?
She was hurt so she deserves a new car.
Fucked up as that sounds that is the thinking. She cannot see how crass this is to many around her, and doesn't want to anyway. There is no reasoning as there is no basis for a discussion.
When the EBTs evaporate one day people will see what this irrational sense of entitlement really means.
BandGap
You just hit on a scary thought, the "many around her" are most likely jealous and could see her experience as a new way to make money.
She probably refreshed her browser 50 times a day looking at that windfall.
No self respecting nigga would drive this car without 22's.....does she have any more kids?
They're 19s but she keeps them clean.
#blackcarsmatter
Imported from Detroit?
But did the funeral bills get paid? That's the real question...
Cremated
Black Rides matter!!
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.wallstreet34.com
She needs a car to get out of town. Makes sense to me..
no worries, anyone who names their kid Tyshawn will have it repo-ed in 2 years. Thanks fo yalls kind heart doe. Its fo da childens. What a piece of shit.
Anyone who names their kid Tyshawn hates their kid. Any mother who has a kid in the ghetto with no daddy around also hates their kid.
Illogical Progressive
Well, actually, we do know a LOT about you.
She might need some more money for rims.
That's why she also bought a new basketball for her 5 year old daughter and send her to jump some hoops.
MOMMA NEEDS A NEW SET OF RIMS AND A SHINNY I FUCKING PHONE!
http://www.ezrims4rent.com/
bling bling motherfukk...
Only if she does a rim-job for those rims.
throw the kid in a ditch and go cruisin
If she was concerned for her safety for $500 she could have bought a gun and saved herself a lot of grief. Oh yeah, this is Chicago, you're not allowed to protect yourself. Forget what I said, a brand new car sounds reasonable.
But aren't the criminals the only ones in Chicago allowed to have guns?
Yes. Aldermen are allowed to carry guns