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Posted: 12/12/2013 4:32:33 AM EDT
The sign language interpreter apparently had no skills in interpreting and made up all the gestures of translation.
Link A man being criticized by sign language experts for providing fake interpretations while standing close to President Obama and other heads of state at Nelson Mandela’s memorial says he becomes violent “a lot” and was hallucinating during the event. Thamsanqa Jantjie did not describe his qualifications for being a sign language interpreter, but told The Star he works for an interpreting company that paid him $85 for interpreting Tuesday's event, according to The Associated Press. He told Radio 702 on Thursday he's receiving treatment for schizophrenia and had an episode while on stage at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. "What happened that day, I see angels come to the stadium ... I start realizing that the problem is here. And the problem, I don't know the attack of this problem, how will it come. Sometimes I get violent on that place. Sometimes I will see things chasing me," Jantjie said in an interview with The Associated Press, describing his hallucinations. |
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An African scam? Neva been done befo.
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A lot of people in that country have violent spells. Just look at whose funeral he was at.
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Africa is full of fail. I guess that is why the Halfrican looked so at ease there.
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Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful
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Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. But on a serious note, that would be a very bad situation if something like that played out. |
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Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. But on a serious note, that would be a very bad situation if something like that played out. True. |
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The obamas know ASL or some of it. I'm surprised they didn't say anything unless african SL is way different than ASL.
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Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. Well there is the week-long crap we would have to watch on TV. Thank goodness for TCM. Biden would be the gift that keeps on giving. |
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Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. But on a serious note, that would be a very bad situation if something like that played out. Just one misread sign and POW! A judy chop to the neck and that'd be all it would take. |
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He made perfect sense to me. Among other gems, he signed that jugears wife was "one ugly Wookie" and that zero was advertising a "whiz bang healthcare program".
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Just one misread sign and POW! A judy chop to the neck and that'd be all it would take. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. But on a serious note, that would be a very bad situation if something like that played out. Just one misread sign and POW! A judy chop to the neck and that'd be all it would take. That would ve the worst thing that ever happened. He would be instantly loved by all for all of history. All his shittyness would be erased and forgotten. |
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Quoted: I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Do you realize we could have lost our president??? They need to be more careful I'm not as worried about losing our president so much as I am that there'd be a chance we'd find him again. |
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View Quote well played sir....well played |
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A violent schizophrenic just feet from and with a clear path to the President.
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View Quote To me, what really makes the image is the file name in the URL |
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We are lucky that "interpreter" wasn't wearing an explosive vest.
Imagine, Obama a martyr and President Biden. Imagine, Obamacare becoming just a minor issue in the 2014 midterms. Imagine, the Obama Memorial Security Act "for the good of the people". We got lucky. |
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Quoted: One of these is not like the other . . . oh, wait, they're EXACTLY like each other . . . http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d196/Bladeswitcher/mandela-sign-2_zpsab908979.jpg View Quote |
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We are lucky that "interpreter" wasn't wearing an explosive vest. Imagine, Obama a martyr and President Biden. Imagine, Obamacare becoming just a minor issue in the 2014 midterms. Imagine, the Obama Memorial Security Act "for the good of the people". We got lucky. View Quote Just because the guy is a nutcase and can't interpret doesn't mean he was given a pass on all of the Secret Service's physical security precautions. "Oh, you're the guy that flaps his hands? You can skip the detectors and patdown." |
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Just because the guy is a nutcase and can't interpret doesn't mean he was given a pass on all of the Secret Service's physical security precautions. "Oh, you're the guy that flaps his hands? You can skip the detectors and patdown." View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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We are lucky that "interpreter" wasn't wearing an explosive vest. Imagine, Obama a martyr and President Biden. Imagine, Obamacare becoming just a minor issue in the 2014 midterms. Imagine, the Obama Memorial Security Act "for the good of the people". We got lucky. Just because the guy is a nutcase and can't interpret doesn't mean he was given a pass on all of the Secret Service's physical security precautions. "Oh, you're the guy that flaps his hands? You can skip the detectors and patdown." That assumes he was a nutcase. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25353132 South Africa minister says interpreting firm has 'vanished'
A South African government minister has said the company that supplied the sign language interpreter for the Nelson Mandela memorial ceremony has "vanished". The interpreter who is accused of using fake hand signals at the service on Tuesday has said he suffered a schizophrenic episode. |
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Quoted: To me, what really makes the image is the file name in the URL View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: To me, what really makes the image is the file name in the URL i aim to please
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View Quote DEY EAT DA POO POO?!?! I love this thread so much. |
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Wait. Some scamming-ass African schizo made it to within a foot of a US president? I'm all about FBHO, but that is fucking nuts.
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HE knows sign language, he just figured out Obama was spouting bullshit and figured, "fuck it, I'll just sign whatever, it's just as relevant."
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