A married Mexican couple now lives in the western suburbs with their teenage daughter. They didn’t make a lot of money, and when hard times hit, they do doordash for money.
They saw the surge prices in the Austin and Garfield Park neighborhood. Most people from those neighborhoods go to the suburbs or white neighborhoods to do delivery where it’s safer and they more likely get tipped. The lack of people in the high crime areas causes surges that nobody wants to risk their life for.
So the man and his wife went out early Saturday morning to deliver food in Garfield Park. About 10 in the morning they got to their destination to deliver food and were met by a pistol in front of a man who wanted to make the news. They gave him what he wanted and he let them go.
They said that they didn’t want to miss those surge prices because they needed the money. But that didn’t happen to him again because they were smart enough not to deliver food in the area.
Sometime later the man went out on his own to deliver some food. In the Austin neighborhood he again was held up by gunpoint. You told the man that he didn’t have any money so he knew that the man wanted to take his car so he offered it up. The car was stuck in the snow so they needed to push the car away from the curb where it’s no pile was stopping him. He said that he jumped in the car and threw the guy’s jacket onto the street. That was at least his description.
The moral of the story is, you have to decide which is more important whether it’s money or your life.
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