How do you handle those "deaf" ppl who try to sell those ASL cards?

srlevesque said:
Wow, that's one I'd never heard of! Actually went to elementary and jr high with a blind girl...2cnd day of jr high we all are asking her for directions!:lol: She had every place that we ever went mapped out and down pat long before us seeing morons did! Now that I think about it I don't remember her ever having a dog or a cane...I wonder how she did it?:hmm:
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Yeah that was a new one to us too! It was funny seeing both guy run back to the car! He found the car real fast for a 'blind' man! LOL!
 
actually one guy sell kids sticklers for 2 dollar each he was clever not to use ASL card to sell anymore he did that in mall I was like uh.. lol that is annoying me but really ecomony is bad right now so he doesn't stand and beg people so he just walks around in food court and do that.. real clever but he doesn't do that for long time cuz of security guards wud bust his ass so he does it for 30 mins then leave.. real clever.. but I doubt he did came back after that cuz since survillance cameras are everywhere in mall so who knows? ;) and I never sell asl cards.. never will cuz I find that rude and dumb.. but my co worker told me she was approached by one perosn who asked for $$ cuz of selling asl cards probably 5 years ago.. :roll:
 
I am now selling those cards. Sent an order for printing.

Each card will say "Deaf. Please help. Need sex to survive. Thank you."
 
srlevesque said:
Well if I remember correctly..Cherie was totally blind. She never wore any kind of sunglasses so I could see her eyes and she looked almost like she didn't have eyeballs, they were very sunken into her head and never moved to focus on anything. This was back in the 70's and 80's and then I ran into her again in the 90's. She always used a braille typewriter and I think she had a part time aide in jr high to keep up with the note taking. But I never saw her with her aide once she left the classroom. Honestly I don't think any of her friends including me ever asked what she could see, if anything...didn't care, she was doing everything that we did and we all secretly wished that we could learn braille!:cool: We thought it would make passing notes in class much safer and easier!:giggle:
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Ah, some people can still see shadows, landmarks, light changes when they're blind.

For traffic, they listen to the traffic.
 
I posted once on my 2 experiences with 'deaf' beggars, but I can't find my posts ( I have no doubt after I post this someone will find them in a flash LOL) In both experiences I saw that the 'deaf' person was rolling their tongue to simulate the deaf speech. In one experience when confronted the person looked like a deer in headlights, tossed the money he had gotten and ran from me, right into mall security hands. The other time I wasn't the person approached, the guy went to my son first.
 
Yeah, i felt so insulted because of the deaf community. Hearies would think low of us, it is really insulting us. I have see them around often in my local and yes, i do come up to them but they ran away from me.

i caught one individual who selling ABC cards and that guy knew me when we was in HS. I was angry at first but i decided to calm and took guy out for a lunch and asked whats up. Only way is for that guy who needs- instant money. I asked guy to give ABC cards and i took it, threw in garbage n spit at it. That guy was angry and digs the cards to take from trashcan. People looked at guy and let guy feel embarrassed.

It worked and after that, i never saw guy around in my local and dont know what happened to guy. Oh well.
 
In about 17 yrs ago in San Gabriel Valley area, My wife and i were selling ABC cards for money to survive for a short time but after that we moved and we did not need it any more because we found it out that new town (Yuba City and Marysville) won't allow any deafies to peddle that ABC cards any more due to ordinance of police department (I am not sure if it's true or not) and Deaf service (That was back in 1993).
 
deafgal001 said:
Did you really? Sometime I do wonder if people really don't like deaf people. I wonder because how I was treated over the years. I had more of a medical view of deafness at the time too, so I didn't think about audism or anything like that. I was quite friendly and accepted anything people say about deaf people.
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Same thing happened to Rush Limbauigh. He felt that the Federal Government should NOT spend tax money on Closed Captions and relay services; then he went deaf overnight.

Guess what he supports now? Closed Captions and Relay Services :roll:

http://deafness.about.com/cs/celebfeatures/a/rushlimbaugh.htm
 
WhiteWolves64 said:
In about 17 yrs ago in San Gabriel Valley area, My wife and i were selling ABC cards for money to survive for a short time but after that we moved and we did not need it any more because we found it out that new town (Yuba City and Marysville) won't allow any deafies to peddle that ABC cards any more due to ordinance of police department (I am not sure if it's true or not) and Deaf service (That was back in 1993).
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Anytime I have seen a deaf person selling those cards, I pay for one.

They needed the money more than I needed the card. With the way employers get away with discrimination, I have no qualms paying for something from someone who goes out selling things.
 
rockdrummer said:
I have heard about the same thing. Some of those people make a good living at begging. This one woman always has a nice winter jacket on and a nice folding chair to sit in and she also plays various percussion instruments which are nice and new while she sits there eating her McDonalds breakfast and drinking coffee. I never gave her money because I didn't think she really needed it. On the next block there is a guy in a wheelchair without any legs dressed kind of ratty who looks like he is really down on his luck. I have talked to him and he is a veteran. I gave him money when I could.
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I dont get it, veteran disabled get $$$ from our government and they act alike they were poor. My disabled nephew collects VA benefits, alot more than what my husband is earning SSDI. Only thing I can think of u help him to stay on drugs or drinking.
 
Steinhauer said:
Anytime I have seen a deaf person selling those cards, I pay for one.

They needed the money more than I needed the card. With the way employers get away with discrimination, I have no qualms paying for something from someone who goes out selling things.
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Why? we already paid them when they collects ssi.
 
jazzy said:
I dont get it, veteran disabled get $$$ from our government and they act alike they were poor. My disabled nephew collects VA benefits, alot more than what my husband is earning SSDI. Only thing I can think of u help him to stay on drugs or drinking.
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Disabled veterans earn their disability support thru their service to and sacrifices for their country.

I don't know all the ins and outs of SSDI, so I don't know what recipients have to do in order to earn those payments. So I don't know how they can be compared.
 
jazzy said:
I dont get it, veteran disabled get $$$ from our government and they act alike they were poor. My disabled nephew collects VA benefits, alot more than what my husband is earning SSDI. Only thing I can think of u help him to stay on drugs or drinking.
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It's a misconception that all those selling the cards are on drugs or drinking.
 
Back in 1993 when we moved to Yuba City (Northern California) from San Gabriel Valley area and the advocate from the NorCal Center on Deafness was told us about the cash vouchers and ABC cards. But, I am not sure if still or not that Yuba City or Marysville City Hall passing the cash vouchers to deafies who peddling the ABC cards or homeless to buy food instead of boozes, cigarettes and drugs.
 
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This is another example of deaf beggar's wares from long ago. No alphabet, just a sewing kit.

Part of my collection.
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wow I am surprised! serious!
 
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