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I live in this neighborhood…that store is litterally within walking distance of my house…If i woked retail around here I would have at LEAST a crowbar by the register, in case I ran out of ammo.
What’s sign language for “Don’t tase me, bro”? :eek:
But seriously, I heard not too long ago that deaf people occasionaly get beaten up when their sign language is mistaken for gang hand signals.
I’ve heard that, but I’m still not sure if that’s an UL or not. The occasions that I’ve heard about an actual person as opposed to a FOAF are pretty vanishingly small.
In fact, I can think of exactly one, at most two incidents in nearly thirty years that I personally have heard about straight from reputable online news sites. Here is an incident from L.A. that happened last year. Oh, and here’s a listing that asks the same question. From tafkac.org, which seems to be a page collating cites from alt.folklore.urban. Given the newsgroup source, I’m leaning toward UL.
Maybe I just hang out with the wrong people. I don’t know. But I tend to view that sort of thing with a lot of skepticism.
And the base for an underseen and underrated movie.
I love that underrated movie.
I’m with the person who’d like the rest of the timeline for this story. I’ll admit to laughing at this section: "Ricky Young, 20, told them he thought Goodnight was being rude by not talking to him and hit him in the head with a crowbar. " Not because someone getting hit with a crowbar is funny, but because it’s such a wild leap that it’s right out of a comedy sketch.
RIT, eh?
I’m sure I’ve read a SciFi story, predating the movie, with a very similar plot.
The Marching Morons, C K Kornbluth. A true classic.
I like this idea!
My understanding is that it’s not so much of a leap in context of the ethos of some urban cultures, where showings of respect are the most revered rituals in the social canon. I seem to recall that, especially in gang cultures, the perception of disrespect is casus belli.
I know this is a mostly tongue-in-cheek comment, but I can’t let it pass by.
I do not trust the idea of a bureaucracy choosing who can and cannot have children. It is generally considered to have been a human rights violation when the Eugenics movement in the US supported sterilization of the mentally infirm, and I see no reason to take on faith that no one in such a bureaucracy wouldn’t use his or her position to do some backdoor eugenics work.
I agree a whole shit-pot full of people are having kids who really shouldn’t be trusted with a guppy. I just think that this proposed cure is worse than the disease.
IIRC, in at least one state in the US, the Deaf were included in the “must be sterilized” group.
I didn’t remember that, but Alexander Graham Bell did advocate just that. Even though he’d married a deaf woman, himself.
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…and if they sterilized her, that meant he wouldn’t have to wrap it up anymore. Devious, Bell. Devious. 
Yeah, but if you could make it work…
Maybe he was hoping that hitting him with a crow bar would make him hear again.
Plus, he never had to worry about calling out the wrong woman’s name whilst in the throes of passion.
And she wouldn’t be on the phone all damn day.