DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, December 11, 2014
-- an airline lipreading service?
Easyjet is Great Britain's largest airline. This airline
distributed a press release saying that their flight
people are easy to lipread and that it is a big benefit
for deaf passengers. This is puzzling because not every
deaf person can read lips; many deaf people rely on
sign language and also many other deaf people rely on
captions. Not sure why Easyjet people think all deaf
people can lipread?
-- remembering a famous deaf athlete
Eugene Hairston, who is deaf, passed away recently.
Boxing was popular in the forties and fifties and
he was one of the world's best boxers. He defeated
a few champions. Suddenly, at the age of 21, he retired.
A bad gash above his eyebrow would not heal properly
and he was advised to stop boxing or he could go blind.
Hairston's contribution to boxing, however, was huge.
Red flashing lights were installed at corners to tell
boxers that the round has ended! It was because some
boxers would continue to punch Hairston after the
bell was rung!
-- breaking a deaf record in a courtroom
What is the deaf record for interpreter no-shows in a
courtroom? Seven times a deaf person showed up for his
courtroom hearing and seven times the interpreter
never showed up. Is it a world deaf record? This is
not a joke - and the deaf person is very angry about it.
It happened in the Camden, NJ court room. This deaf
man, from Philadelphia, is fed up with it, because of
the repeated case postponements, and he is filing a
lawsuit, which is separate from his court matter.
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