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« Reply #75 on: October 16, 2014, 04:28:55 AM » |
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So the parents took monthly payments from Pistorius after he shot their daughter cos they were skint.... not if i was starving in the gutter...
I see they made a nice amount selling their story and admitted that their daughter was their meal ticket... they sound a pretty pair... i know I shouldnt be startled at how low human beings will sink for money..but I am
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« Reply #76 on: October 16, 2014, 05:21:20 AM » |
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So the parents took monthly payments from Pistorius after he shot their daughter cos they were skint.... not if i was starving in the gutter...
I see they made a nice amount selling their story and admitted that their daughter was their meal ticket... they sound a pretty pair... i know I shouldnt be startled at how low human beings will sink for money..but I am
People who have plenty of money are always surprised at what people who don't have enough money will do. It's unfair to impose the principles you can afford to live by onto people who don't have enough to get by. Possible (even probable) that Reeva was supporting her parents when she died. |
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« Reply #77 on: October 21, 2014, 09:10:06 AM » |
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« Reply #78 on: October 21, 2014, 10:04:59 AM » |
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« Reply #79 on: October 21, 2014, 10:25:39 AM » |
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Glad he got a custodial sentence.
Will be disappointed if he gets out in ten months as his defence reckon though.
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« Reply #80 on: October 21, 2014, 10:26:25 AM » |
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« Reply #81 on: October 21, 2014, 10:41:19 AM » |
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Complete travesty IMO.
I wonder what the sentence would be if Reeva's boyfriend had been a poor, uneducated black man?
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« Reply #82 on: October 21, 2014, 10:45:50 AM » |
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So South African court cases always take as ridicuolously long as this one did? I appreciate when there is a media element to it they will inevitably go on longer as there are more biases to account for, but it went on an eternity. I always got the attention that everyone in SA loved every minute of this case including media, politicians, lawyers, the judge etc, it really seems to have been treat like entertainment.
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« Reply #83 on: October 21, 2014, 10:59:10 AM » |
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So the parents took monthly payments from Pistorius after he shot their daughter cos they were skint.... not if i was starving in the gutter...
I see they made a nice amount selling their story and admitted that their daughter was their meal ticket... they sound a pretty pair... i know I shouldnt be startled at how low human beings will sink for money..but I am
People who have plenty of money are always surprised at what people who don't have enough money will do. It's unfair to impose the principles you can afford to live by onto people who don't have enough to get by. Tbh I was more about taking money from someone who gunned down your child |
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« Reply #84 on: October 21, 2014, 06:16:01 PM » |
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i had occasion to appear as a witness in a silly little car theft case in the uk,as i was politely invited to wait if i wished in a private waiting room i found my self in a room with several police officers who assumed that i was one of them and chatted about all types of activities that they chose to to pass time as they waited to be called for there cases......the story that relates to south Africa is that one of the officers was over there with a English youth rugby team and despite all there advise to all there young players to not go here and don't wander off on your own he got a report that one of there young lads had left the safe area of the hotel disco and gone with a local girl to a bar down the street,the British cop got the hotel manager who called some cops who turned up very quickly assed the situation and the fact that the British guy was a cop and had had fire arms training....they took him to there car got a gun called a mak some thing or other gave it to him and said were going into these bars looking for your rugby player if any one gets in you re face shoot them.....a search of several bars latter ,missing guy wanders back on his own.
the mind set of the cops would seem to be take lethal action and worry about the paper work later.....possible there upbringing in south Africa turns them to it.
no DOT hollywood will make a film about the shooting in south Africa and some a Lister star will have a crisis of conscience about playing the lead part then decide that he could do with another 5 million for a extension to his week end house and do it.....please god dint let it be sylvester stallone
Sentencing begins tomorrow.
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« Reply #85 on: October 21, 2014, 09:18:07 PM » |
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i had occasion to appear as a witness in a silly little car theft case in the uk,as i was politely invited to wait if i wished in a private waiting room i found my self in a room with several police officers who assumed that i was one of them and chatted about all types of activities that they chose to to pass time as they waited to be called for there cases......the story that relates to south Africa is that one of the officers was over there with a English youth rugby team and despite all there advise to all there young players to not go here and don't wander off on your own he got a report that one of there young lads had left the safe area of the hotel disco and gone with a local girl to a bar down the street,the British cop got the hotel manager who called some cops who turned up very quickly assed the situation and the fact that the British guy was a cop and had had fire arms training....they took him to there car got a gun called a mak some thing or other gave it to him and said were going into these bars looking for your rugby player if any one gets in you re face shoot them.....a search of several bars latter ,missing guy wanders back on his own.
the mind set of the cops would seem to be take lethal action and worry about the paper work later.....possible there upbringing in south Africa turns them to it.
no DOT hollywood will make a film about the shooting in south Africa and some a Lister star will have a crisis of conscience about playing the lead part then decide that he could do with another 5 million for a extension to his week end house and do it.....please god dint let it be sylvester stallone
Sentencing begins tomorrow.
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« Reply #86 on: October 22, 2014, 03:03:09 PM » |
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The irony is that Oscar Pistorius will wake up this morning and there really will be a burglar using his toilet.
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« Reply #87 on: October 23, 2014, 02:59:28 PM » |
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10 months prison and the rest house arrest seems like a fair sentence to me.
Diamond League athletics have said he's unlikely to be invited to compete again after his sentence so his high-flying athletics career and all the sponsorship/prize money associated is gone (and has been since 2012), he's had to sell his house to cover legal costs. I highly doubt he's broke and will obv at some point collect a wedge for selling his story but he's certainly not going back into his A list celebrity lifestyle. His reputation is irreparably destroyed.
I don't believe that depriving him of his liberty at huge cost to the state is really necessary on top of that. He's not a danger to anyone else and he's unlikely to re-offend, I don't think that locking him up for decades is going to act as a deterrent since the court concluded that it was a crime of negligence and not malice. This leaves us with retribution as the other main reason for throwing away the key, but who really wins in that scenario? The family and friends of the deceased I guess but not necessarily. If I were a resident of South Africa I would imagine that there are a lot of things that the money could be spent on that would be of greater benefit to society than locking away Oscar Pistorius.
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« Reply #88 on: October 23, 2014, 03:16:43 PM » |
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Complete travesty IMO.
I wonder what the sentence would be if Reeva's boyfriend had been a poor, uneducated black man?
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« Reply #89 on: October 23, 2014, 04:05:27 PM » |
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10 months prison and the rest house arrest seems like a fair sentence to me.
Diamond League athletics have said he's unlikely to be invited to compete again after his sentence so his high-flying athletics career and all the sponsorship/prize money associated is gone (and has been since 2012), he's had to sell his house to cover legal costs. I highly doubt he's broke and will obv at some point collect a wedge for selling his story but he's certainly not going back into his A list celebrity lifestyle. His reputation is irreparably destroyed.
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