That's not a bluetooth headset, morons.

I found this article today. I had a few friends in college with cochlear implants. Makes me so angry to see how ignorant people are. How many 3 year olds you know wear a bluetooth?

The first time someone snatched the speech processor from behind her son's ear, Hilda Giron got it back. She had been shopping for groceries and shouted to the cashier to watch 3-year-old Jose while she took off after the young thief and his accomplice.

The boys probably thought they had grabbed a Bluetooth headset, which are in high demand now that California requires drivers to use hands-free cellphones. Luckily, the boys ditched the $6,000 earpiece -- the external part of Jose's implanted hearing device -- as they fled.

Giron found it in the market parking lot, still intact.

Then a week ago, she and Jose were having lunch at a McDonald's on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when two teenagers grabbed the earpiece and ran. This time, the thieves got away.

"He kept asking, 'Where is it? Where is it?' " Giron said in Spanish, repeating words the processor had helped Jose learn to say.

Advocates for the deaf at first welcomed the Bluetooth craze: Deaf people with cochlear implants, they thought, wouldn't stand out so much if everyone wore little gadgets behind their ears. But some now fear that Bluetooth headsets will become as popular with thieves as iPods -- and that deaf people will become inadvertent targets.

 How can we help? How can I help? This makes me feel so helpless, and I want to do something. Anyone on Disaboom have some ideas or comments?

The article can be found here.