this is such a weird story Louis the other day
elected officials politicians world leaders and diplomats from
from around the world flew to South Africa for the Nelson Mandela memorial
and one not inconspicuous element the
that memorial service was an individual doing sign language interpretation for
those who are hard of hearing his name
is and sunk a John G but
it appears that he was not really signing a number of different
experts in sign language said he was not signing in South African
he was not signing in American Sign Language a hard of hearing
elected official sped that he was communicating
nothing with the signs that he was using
let's look at a little bit over the video and Lewis I don't know much about
sign language but upon
looking at this I'm seeing a lot of repetition at the same signs none of
which seem to have
that much meaning in context that what was being said check this out
got a very respectable cheer from the crowd you see the anguished faces that
winnie mandela
crossover Charlotte the and the children the grandchildren
ed eventually will start to you attributes
we hear from the from the from the family members will hear from President
Zuma President Obama
a huge cheer went up when the chinese Vice President Kim and I believe is the
vice president sitrep Steady China and let's not forget
incredibly the chinese have invested so much in Africa
South all across Africa always showing leave gonna try to take it over if not
taken to the US
it flew into the best it here Katara policy
okay so it turns out that this was nothing he was signing nothing Lewis and
he was very close to President Obama he was close to all sorts of world leaders
and s them tonga John she said in a 45-minute interview with the AP
that he had a whole Lucy nations during the interpreting
he tried not to panic because they were armed policemen around him
and he said he had been hospitalized previously
or schizophrenia he has a violent past
and that he actually had to go
get his medication on the day that he was hired to do this signing job
this is just incredible though as I mean first the ball the absurdity of a guy
who first of all interpreters are supposed to be switched out every 20 to
30 minutes to prevent fatigue
and he was up there for hours right that's number one
number two he starts he signing nothing like he's just signing nonsense and he's
there next to Obama it's all very
for fashion all and and heartfelt community
it just you can't write something like this it's incredible
I how did this happen how was this man standing right next to you
the president of the united states I it seems that there clearly was no typo
background check or anything on this guy well what's fascinating also is the
government officials who try to track down the company that
provided them sankei John G for this event
but the owners have quote vanished into thin air according to the
the deputy minister love women children and people with disabilities
and I i mean it is the ill he signing nonsense he's communicating nothing
he's hallucinating demyans he has a violent past
and the company for whom he worked is gone
um it's incredible and of course people are talking about security concerns this
guy was close to
how many how many important world leaders I can't even count the number
our gap many and
I guess it wouldn't have taken much to have a little schizophrenic outburst in
just that
I don't know stab wound up on it's it's pretty incredible
he says he doesn't remember any of it when he was shown video his
up his non nonsense signing he says he doesn't remember any of it all
you know as I actually remember there were a couple death death students in
our
graduating high school class and I have my suspicions I always did
that the interpreter that was that sat at the front of the class with
for them was also signing gibberish because they rarely looked at her
and Penn they did they looked so confused maybe it's a thing
that that you just all the sudden have a interpreters that are signing gibberish
I'm I I certainly hope I mean baby
maybe they were confused because they're just intently focusing on on the signs
but
I i'm sure as I like to state yacht there's plenty of incompetence out there
in pretty much
every aspect the world in every job so
out why would this be any different yeah i i agree with you so hopefully we'll
get to the bottom of this and figure out what exactly happened