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Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
RAW VIDEO: Deaf Kentuckian woman mauled by pit bull dog.



LOUISVILLE, KY - A 59-year old Deaf woman who lives in an assisted adult care home because of her special needs is in the hospital after being mauled by a pit bull. She couldn't hear the dog coming or even form the words to say help.



Tony Simpson, who witnessed the attack, tells WDRB News, "I've never never seen nothing like that."



The two-year-old pit bull named Rambo sits quarantined in a steel cage at the Breckinridge County Animal Shelter.







Stacey Lucas and her fiance Tony Simpson say the last time they saw the dog in Cloverport, it was trying to tear Shirley Sturgeon apart.



Simpson says, "The dog was literally just eating the woman. He was not just biting her. He was tearing her meat off and swallowing it."



Shirley Sturgeon lives at Breckinridge Manor. She is deaf and was walking down a road Saturday on the way to a friend's house. It was just about a block from her home that Rambo attacked as she walked up the road... Read more: http://www.wdrb.com/story/deaf-mute-woman-attacked-by-pit-bull
VIDEO: A group of Deafies leaving the annual of the 2012 NAD Conference and DeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky.



Deaf people had a rather awful experience courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration in that city’s airport.





TSA agents at the Louisville, Kentucky airport laughed at a Deaf man, called him "f***ing Deafie," and then stole his candy, another perfect example of why this loathsome federal agency needs to be abolished immediately. "You're dumb Deafies anyway so no one would believe you" ... Read more: http://americanvisionnews.com/4091/tsa-mocks-deaf-man-steals-his-candy-eats-it-in-front-of-him
VIDEO [CC] - NAD Official Candidates for Board Positions in Kentucky Conference 2012



The Election Committee announced official candidates for officer and regional representative positions on the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) Board of Directors - Find more information at: http://www.nad.org/louisville/official-candidates-board-positions



Contact your local and State chapters to represent your interest in 1 of 2 candidates for NAD President (2012-2014). NAD presidential canditates with captions.



Sheri Ann Farinha for NAD President 2012-2014:



More information at: http://www.seangerlis.com/nad/



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