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[QUOTE=Kricket]
Wait a minute…my register didn’t come with a crowbar!*
Seriously what the heck was he doing with a crowbar at the register in the first place?
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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.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
Or if that didn’t get the guy to talk, maybe a taser (low setting, of course). But a crowbar? Total overkill.
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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.
[QUOTE=sqweels]
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.
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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.
[QUOTE=danceswithcats]
Never happen. Spreading stupid spooge is a fundamental right…
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And the base for an underseen and underrated movie.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
And the base for an underseen and underrated movie.
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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.
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
The college I went to is affiliated with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and I remember seeing that shirt around campus a few times.
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RIT, eh?
[QUOTE=levdrakon]
I love that underrated movie.
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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.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
Now, THAT’S a cause I can get behind!
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I like this idea!
[QUOTE=Omega Glory]
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?
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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.
[QUOTE=slaphead]
Competent Conceiver permits, rock on.
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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.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
It is generally considered to have been a human rights violation when the Eugenics movement in the US supported sterilization of the mentally infirm,
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IIRC, in at least one state in the US, the Deaf were included in the “must be sterilized” group.
[QUOTE=Monty]
IIRC, in at least one state in the US, the Deaf were included in the “must be sterilized” group.
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I didn’t remember that, but Alexander Graham Bell did advocate just that. Even though he’d married a deaf woman, himself.
Cite .
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
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. 
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
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.
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Yeah, but if you could make it work…
Maybe he was hoping that hitting him with a crow bar would make him hear again.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
…and if they sterilized her, that meant he wouldn’t have to wrap it up anymore. Devious, Bell. Devious.
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Plus, he never had to worry about calling out the wrong woman’s name whilst in the throes of passion.
[QUOTE=danceswithcats]
Plus, he never had to worry about calling out the wrong woman’s name whilst in the throes of passion.
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And she wouldn’t be on the phone all damn day.