Gun-wielding deaf man shoots gun inside bank

A deaf-mute grabbed the gun of a bank security guard and fired it into the celing after becoming frustrated because he was unable to communicate with bank employees. 

"I kept pleading with him to put the gun down by using hand motions," Joel Lowenstein, manager of the Chase Manhattan branch in Queens, said "The police kept yelling at him to drop his weapon. I kept yelling at the police that he was deaf." 

For 10 tense minutes police kept their revolvers aimed at the deaf-mute, Jonathan Lyles, 33, of Hicksville, N.Y. "He was holding the gun near his hip, and it pointed at just about everyone as he turned in different direction," said Police Office Nick Ucc. 

Some 30 bank customers huddled in fear under counters and against walls during the confrontation. Lyles, clutching the gun nervously, eventually surrended it to Lowenstein, who said he was able to pacify him because of his volunteer work experience with the deaf and handicapped. Lowenstein said.

Lyles had come into the bank last week and early Wednesday morning before returning again at 2:30 that afternoon. Each time, the bank was unable to determine what Lyles wanted. Lyles was charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and possession of a weapon. He was also charged with third degree robbery for taking the guard's gun. 

The above article was taken from a Jnuary 14, 1976 Tri City Herald newspaper which demonstrated the level of frustration deaf people had back then when it came to communicating with hearing people. If Mr. Lyles is alive today he'd be about 69 years old. Where is Lyles nowadays?

A screen capture of the newspaper article. 

When a Deaf Person Calls Michelle Malkin a "Chink Bitch"

It's amazing how people react when they do not get an email reply back. This one Deaf dude called Michelle Malkin a "Chink Bitch" as outlined in Rhymes with Right blog. Only because Michelle Malkin didn't return his email. All this over a discussion of Cindy Sheehan claiming that RWR blog attacked Cindy Sheehan's good name. Hardly even close. RWR was careful and respectful of Cindy's loss of her son. But the viciousness of the Loony Liberal Left just gets lower and lower just as Michelle Malkin pointed them out because we dare to criticize Sheehan's action and the questionable actions of the MSM by taking advantage of Sheehan's situation. How many emails did Michelle Malkin answer? Who really cares?

Now, good lord! Everybody knows that Michelle Malkin's blogsite is popular and that she must get tons of emails. Even I sent her several emails but no reply, and I didn't expect a reply either knowing that she gets tons of emails. Am I bitter? No. Am I disappointed? No. What I *don't* do is roll on the floor in a rage of fit just because somebody didn't answer my email. How DARE she ignore me! Hey, I'm flexible and I understand that people cannot answer all emails, especially if they get tons of it with half of it being scathing, idiotic and thoughtless spews.

The temper tantrum result was over the claim that Michelle Malkin used the words "deaf-mute" as a derogatory term in her article a few months back. And in return called her a "gook" in a deliberate attempt to be racist by purposely using a derogatory term against her in the form of a question. An odd way at rationalizing the justification in doing so when Michelle Malkin wasn't trying to be racist nor purposely using "deaf mute" as a derogatory term. But to say "deaf and dumb" would be the more obvious derogatory term. The term "deaf mute" in Michelle's instance doesn't qualify as a derogatory term but rather to explain medically the girl's limitation rather than trying to be mean. But this Lovable LLL purposely used a derogatory term as if "gook" and "deaf mute" have the same derogatory standard. Hardly. "Gook" is never a medical term or medical description but a racist one by the person saying it.