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a fatal confusion. Alfred Stewart and his friends wanted to say something nice to a woman the only way they know: with sign language. Without knowing it, had put into the hands something inappropriate in the language of street gangs, one of which belonged to the girl. The confusion ended four in hospital after being stabbed.
Members of a group of deaf friends were stabbed in a bar in Florida after a woman mistook the sign language with the language of street gangs.
Alfred Stewart, 31, was with his friends, all of them deaf, in a room of the bar Ocean's Eleven in the town of Hallendal Beach when one of them threw a look at a woman, Barbara Lee, unaware that it belonged a street gang.
Stewart and her company made several signs to Lee with sign language, but it shall be interpreted as signs that the gang used to communicate among themselves, so they responded in the same "language", as police said the American newspaper Daily News.
The misunderstanding must create something that women did not like, and who missed the bar and suddenly appeared a few moments accompanied by two young, Marco Ibanez, 19, and a second boy of 17, named has not been provided. Without explanation, Ibanez pulled a knife and began stabbing Stewart and his friends.
He and three of his companions were admitted to hospital with stab wounds and a bar porter, who spoke at the "melee" bottle in hand, to hit in the head of one of them.
According to official sources, not in danger the lives of any of the wounded. Lee, Ibanez and the third attacker was arrested, while Stewart's mother, Brenda, said that in no way his son and his friends know the language of street gangs. "Only they know sign language," he said at WSVN-TV television.
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