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raffi
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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Thieves, perhaps after cellphone gear, have twice stolen a 3-yr old deaf boy's special earpiece |
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| Quote: | The first time someone snatched the speech processor from behind her son's ear, Hilda Giron got it back. She had been shopping for groceries and shouted to the cashier to watch 3-year-old Jose while she took off after the young thief and his accomplice.
The boys probably thought they had grabbed a Bluetooth headset, which are in high demand now that California requires drivers to use hands-free cellphones. Luckily, the boys ditched the $6,000 earpiece -- the external part of Jose's implanted hearing device -- as they fled.
Giron found it in the market parking lot, still intact.
Then a week ago, she and Jose were having lunch at a McDonald's on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when two teenagers grabbed the earpiece and ran. This time, the thieves got away.
"He kept asking, 'Where is it? Where is it?' " Giron said in Spanish, repeating words the processor had helped Jose learn to say.
Advocates for the deaf at first welcomed the Bluetooth craze: Deaf people with cochlear implants, they thought, wouldn't stand out so much if everyone wore little gadgets behind their ears. But some now fear that Bluetooth headsets will become as popular with thieves as iPods -- and that deaf people will become inadvertent targets. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:15 am Post subject: |
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 There's going to be a lot of torn ears in Cali.
Sad.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| That sucks. |
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TNLakersFanInLA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Absolutely pathetic.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
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It's official, the inmates are running the asylum! Snatching a wireless ear piece off a 3 year old... WTF is wrong people!
Sad part is, if this were to happen to me, and I caught the teens (physically grabbed them), I would be the one to get arrested, I would be the one getting sued, and sadly, they would probably win....
I'm liking my going medieval idea (posted earlier)... cut off their (bleep) hands!!! And if they run, take a foot as well! |
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Inglewood_Laker Fan_310
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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this pisses me of!!
WTH are wrong with some people  
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Exick
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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Not like it's surprising, but these thieves have no sense. What the hell would a 3-year-old be doing with a bluetooth headset, morons?
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Exick wrote: | | Not like it's surprising, but these thieves have no sense. What the hell would a 3-year-old be doing with a bluetooth headset, morons? |
I think the idiots are the people who are reporting this story. The theives new damn well that it wasn't a bluetooth piece (at least I think).
Does (bleep) like this happen in other countries too? I can't stand this place sometimes. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| REPPIN 818 wrote: | | Exick wrote: | | Not like it's surprising, but these thieves have no sense. What the hell would a 3-year-old be doing with a bluetooth headset, morons? |
I think the idiots are the people who are reporting this story. The theives new damn well that it wasn't a bluetooth piece (at least I think).
Does (bleep) like this happen in other countries too? I can't stand this place sometimes. |
Happens everywhere. A certain percentage f people just don't give a $%#^
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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sometimes i wish we could incorporate some of the laws in the muslim countries here in the US...
get caught stealing..... they cut your balls off...... seriously!! |
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| Lakers999 wrote: | sometimes i wish we could incorporate some of the laws in the muslim countries here in the US...
get caught stealing..... they cut your balls off...... seriously!! |
Uh, the only way that would happen is if you had them in your hand at the time of punishment 
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| REPPIN 818 wrote: | | Exick wrote: | | Not like it's surprising, but these thieves have no sense. What the hell would a 3-year-old be doing with a bluetooth headset, morons? |
I think the idiots are the people who are reporting this story. The theives new damn well that it wasn't a bluetooth piece (at least I think).
Does (bleep) like this happen in other countries too? I can't stand this place sometimes. |
Yeah I agree. The writer even says the ear piece is worth 6 g's. A couple teens can sell that on the black market for at least a 1000 a pop. It's cruel and pathetic but that's the world we live in.
And of course this goes on in other countries. I was walking the streets in Florence and an old lady right in front of me got her purse snatched. The police were able to get him though.
But the one country I doubt you would ever see this happen is Singapore. I've never seen a cleaner country in my life. Gum is banned, you can get fined for spitting or not flushing a public toilet. Littering is a HEAVY fine. And we all remember the dumb American kid who spray painted graffiti on a bunch of cars and got a few lashes to the back side. I can't imagine what they'd do to one of these a-hole teens that stole from a toddler. |
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TNLakersFanInLA
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| REPPIN 818 wrote: | | Exick wrote: | | Not like it's surprising, but these thieves have no sense. What the hell would a 3-year-old be doing with a bluetooth headset, morons? |
I think the idiots are the people who are reporting this story. The theives new damn well that it wasn't a bluetooth piece (at least I think).
Does (bleep) like this happen in other countries too? I can't stand this place sometimes. |
Noone in the world would think a 3 year old is using a bluetooth cell earpiece. These "people" know exactly what they did, and obviously have no soul or heart. I hope they meet the front of bus really soon.
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