DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 1, 2013
-- two big Gallaudet football ironies!
Gallaudet is famous for two football inventions. First,
Gallaudet invented the football huddle. And Gallaudet
used the drum to tell its players that the ball is
snapped. But there are two big ironies with both
inventions. First, Gallaudet rarely uses the huddle!
The game has changed so much that the huddle is slowly
becoming old fashioned. And also for the same reason
(game changing) Gallaudet stopped using the drum!
-- India may allow the deaf to serve as small claims court judges!
For years India has not allowed the deaf to serve as judges in
small claims courts. This may change because the High Court
has ordered the government to allow the deaf to become judges.
Small claims means small stuff like apartment evictions, small
property destruction, dog bites, money owed, parking tickets, etc.
-- The Tim Horton coffee & donuts franchise in Canada
Tim Hortons is a well known coffee & donuts chain
in Canada (same as our own Dunkin' Donuts). Do we have
deaf owners of a Tim Horton franchise? Yes - Mark Wafer,
who is deaf, but functions as a hearing person, has owned
a Tim Hortons franchise for 20 years in Toronto. One of his
best employees has Down syndrome. And speaking of owning
fast food franchises, a deaf man wanted to buy a McDonald's
franchise in the late seventies. McDonald's turned him down;
he filed a lawsuit with the help of National Association
of the Deaf - but he didn't win - it was years before ADA.
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