[COBOL2Java]

This looks like an easy problem to fix and there is no excuse not to do so. The people who sign should work out an arrangement for the equivalent of a "9-1-1" sign and a "I am deaf" sign that would be taught to the public in general by public service advertising.

Hey! I got it! We should require deaf people, and people who have had strokes and can't communicate, to wear special badges on their clothes, indicating their condition so cops won't beat the crap out of them! Maybe something along this line:

[Carry_Okie]

Hey! I got it!

Uh, no you don't idiot. "Sign" is the language that deaf people use. It's up to them to figure out what that sign might be. It's up to them to find sponsors for a PSA to teach the public to recognize said sign. It's V-O-L-U-N-T-A-R-Y.

I had two relatives who died in the Holocaust. Take your f-ing "NAZI" crap and stick it.