DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 14, 2016
-- illiterate police officer
A deaf man in Burlington, Ontario was arrested
on suspicion of theft. The deaf man was without
an interpreter and was puzzled why was he
arrested. He asked the police officer to please
write down on a notepad explaining the reason
for the arrest. Instead the police officer
physically roughed him up. Much to the
embarrassment of the city police department,
someone took a video of the brutal beating
and posted it on social media. When
illiterate people are confronted with a
notepad and a pen, they often behave very
badly. So, was the police officer
illiterate? A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/illiterate-police-officer/
-- cost for a single-screen movie theater
All movie theaters must provide captions, no
matter if it is a big theater, with many screens,
or a small theater with just one screen in
a small town. For captioning equipment
for that small single-screen theater, the
cost, as estimated by Justice Department,
is just over $3,000. Some small theaters
can afford it, some can't and could be
forced to get out of the movie business!
-- directory of deaf-owned businesses
A new directory of deaf-owned businesses is
coming up. There was an announcement about it
few days ago. Unfortunately it is not in USA,
but in Great Britain. Why not USA? There were
several past attempts to come up with a list of
American deaf owned businesses. These attempts
were not successful.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- bank branch, deaf manager
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
11/13/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
