# Been a while since we had a good RO thread. (Choke the deaf guy!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216 "2010-08-14T03:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/1 "2010-08-14T03:44:03Z")
I’ve sort of been waiting for this story to break on the SDMB for a day or so, but no go. So, y’all might want to check this shit out: [“I didn’t like the way the security guards were choking my brother, that they almost killed him,” said Pablo. “I was trying to get to the guards but they kept pushing me back. I was trying to get them to stop, to tell them, ‘I am deaf, I am deaf.’”](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7609472) Look, dude could be guilty as FUCK, but the flying tackle and chokehold-fu are not what working LP is about. I’m trying real hard to be open-minded about this, but I just can’t make it through the video without wishing I was there to plant a well-aimed steel-toe in either of those power-tripping amateur’s shriveled nutsacks. Grrr, and shit. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/2 "2010-08-16T05:25:08Z")
Wow. Lonely bump. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/3 "2010-08-16T05:30:08Z")
Maybe you should post in MPSIMS where somebody who cares might say something inane? Edit: I meant “Somebody who is pretending to care” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/4 "2010-08-16T08:37:43Z")
The people who like to get angry hang out in the Pit. MPSIMSers like to talk about kitties. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/5 "2010-08-16T12:11:18Z")
I think everyone has better things to be annoyed about. Reading the article, I have little sympathy for the thieves, and if they got a little roughed up while being taken down - I don’t really care. From the article it looks like a repeat thief was being caught _again_ and took off. ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/6 "2010-08-16T12:21:36Z")
Guy stole shit, guy got taken to the ground (and ineffectively from what I can see)… what’s the issue? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/7 "2010-08-16T13:31:06Z")
Did I read the story wrong or was the “LP” device both audio and visual? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/8 "2010-08-16T13:44:15Z")
I’m shocked. A rent a cop actually bothered to use physical force? I assumed their detention procedures included step 1: politely ask them to stop step 2: forcefully ask them to stop step 3: give up and go back inside. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/been-a-while-since-we-had-a-good-ro-thread-choke-the-deaf-guy/550216/9 "2010-08-16T17:26:49Z")
Next time the deaf crooks should call ahead and make sure there is a security guard who knows sign language on duty.