DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 10, 2014
-- a bank transaction free for hearing, $42 charge for deaf
Mark Hooper, who is deaf, wanted to transfer money from one
banking account to another banking account. This is a routine
transaction, done for free for hearing customers. But for
Mark, the Halifax Bank (in Slough, a town in Great Britain)
charged him $42.00. The bank told the very angry Mark that
if they have to make a phone call for him to make the
transfer it is $42.00 whereas it is free for a hearing
person to make that phone call. So upset Mark was that he
brought public attention to the bank - TV news, newspapers,
media postings, etc - that the embarrassed bank backed down,
apologized to him and refunded him his $42.00
-- hearing husband attorney fools deaf wife notary
The hearing attorney Jeffrey Mottern was a crook; he cheated
people out of their life savings through investment promises.
He committed suicide last month. His widow is deaf and was
a notary for her husband's law practice. She had been
authorized to witness legal papers and documents signed by
other people as well as to sign these papers herself. Did the
husband lie to his notary wife about these papers for her
signatures without knowing the truth? The court in
Pennsylvania is trying to sort it all out.
-- our deaf weather people
Many hearing people volunteer as weather spotters, informing
the National Weather Service of weather conditions in their
home areas. What about the deaf? A group of deaf people
in the Memphis area are taking classes to become weather
spotters. This is important because spotters tell the
service of hurricanes, tornadoes, snow, heavy rains
that have come up.
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