Group of deaf, mute friends stabbed at bar after thug mistakes sign language for gang signs

[RamboLiberal]

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Alfred Stewart, 31, was partying at the Ocean's Eleven Lounge in Hallendale Beach, Fla., with some friends who were also deaf on Saturday night when the group's signing caught the eye of gang-banger Barbara Lee.

The 45-year-old Lee though the group was throwing gang signs at her, and responded by flashing gang signs back at them, cops said.

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Eventually, Lee left the bar but returned with two members of her crew, 19-year-old Marco Ibanez and a 17-year-old who was not identified, cops said.

Ibanez allegedly pulled a knife and began stabbing Stewart and his friends

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/05/01/2011-05-01_group_of_deaf_mute_friends_stabbed_at_bar_after_thug_mistakes_their_sign_languag.html

[MineralMan]

1. The incredibly stupid is strong in that one.

...

[Codeine]

2. How is it possible to be that stupid?

Isn't there any sort of built-in limiter?

[cali]

11. no. stupid abounds unfettered. it rules the world.

[RKP5637]

This is "The Era of Stupidity," isn't it. Their are no bounds, it's become unbelievable in

my lifetime.

[Odin2005]

16. If he weren't stupid he wouldn't be a 45yo gang-banger.

[Tunkamerica]

26. she

[Odin2005]

28. My bad!

[blondeatlast]

23. If the only way one can discern one's enemies from one's friends is

by what they wear and what they do with their fingers you're irretrievably stupid.

[BeyondGeography]

3. A 45-year-old gang banger

:thumbsup:

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. middle aged baby-boomer gang banger

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Boomers born in 65 and 66?

That whole thing confuses me. When did the post WW2 boom end, 2008?

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. I've heard different time period for boomers. Sometimes they include early sixties.

I was born in early sixties...certainly don't identify with next geners. Feel more like a younger baby boomer than an older Gen exer

[Odin2005]

17. Gen-X, he was born in the 60s.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. She was born mid sixties

Gen X and not male.

[Odin2005]

21. DOH!

[Igel]

29. Gen XX, so to speak. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. omg

[KittyWampus]

6. A 45 yr old came back with a teenager and a 19 yr old?

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Bullshit

That is all.

[tularetom]

8. 45 year old gang-banger?

Seems to me by that age you ought to have advanced a bit beyond the gang banger phase.

Or be dead or in jail.

[Ian David]

9. Hey, thugs.... FUCK YOU!

"Fuck you" Sign language performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv3tadz5Q3o

[nc4bo]

10. And even more stupid than the bangers are some of the ignorant ass comments

being made.

:puke:

[Enrique]

12. sounds like a fun night at Ocean's Eleven

A bouncer at the bar who had a bottle smashed over his head in the melee was also taken to the hospital.

:party:

[Keith Bee]

14. And I get flak for posting:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x663567

K&R

[Odin2005]

15. Evil, pure Evil!

:grr:

[JVS]

18. Barbara Lee maintains street cred even at ripe age of 45.

[JVS]

22. OMG Ibanez and Lee look like the before and after pictures of one of those meth ads.

[checks-n-balances]

24. The only part of the story I even noticed was the deaf people being stabbed

for no good reason, except for the idiocy of the people doing the stabbing.

Enough focusing on the criminals here; don't forget the victims of this story. All they were doing was communicating in their own language with their friends. It could have cost them their lives.

[HughBeaumont]

25. "Simply Stunning."

[MadHound]

27. This is just an extreme version of what deaf people go through on a regular basis

I was riding a bus one time with a deaf friend, we were talking in sign. A couple of dumb rednecks started up with the insults, the asshole comments about deaf people. My friend and I kept talking, but when we got off the bus I turned and told them just exactly what kind of filth and human debris they were. Their looks of surprise were priceless.