Tyrone Biggums is a fictional character created for a sketch comedy show by comedian Dave Chappelle. Tyrone is a crackhead who sells real estate, wears a FedEx hoodie, drinks Red Balls (cocaine in a can) like water, and loves peanut butter and crack sandwiches. Chappelle made Tyrone a lovable character and pop culture's favorite crackhead with his cocaine white lips, semi-articulate speech, and propensity to sprinkle crack rocks on his meals like seasoned salt.
We were in stitches watching as Tyrone was the guest speaker at a drug awareness day at an elementary school and as he sold a friend's house while the friend was out of town and had a crack party with the proceeds. We laughed while Tyrone went through an intervention, busted a car window to save a baby locked in the car (actually his goal was to steal the radio), and once picked up a city bus just to get to a dime under one of the wheels. He is the closest many of us have ever had to having a live crackhead in our living room. We could laugh at Tyrone, because he's not real. His whole life is a literally joke. A script in the mind of a brilliant comedian. ...I just wish that this news story was a joke too.
This is one of the worst examples of art imitating life. When I spotted this story over at C&D, I was in utter disbelief. This is a mess on so many levels. First of all, this child is 17 with her own two-year old. Secondly, she is babysitting somebody else's 2 toddlers. Thirdly, she leaves them in the house (apparently alone) where cocaine is out in the open, to go out and sell crack. Fourth(ly?) after it became apparent that the kids ate the cocaine, she didn't take them to the hospital until one had a seizure.
Stuff like this just shouldn't happen in real life.
*exhale*
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