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Blade Runner mistakes girlfriend for Replicant, shoots and kills her

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Norrin Radd, Feb 14, 2013.

  1. Norrin Radd

    Norrin Radd New Member

    Unspeakably tragic, based on the currently available facts. Oscar Pistorius shoots and kills his girlfriend, mistaking her for being an intruder.

    http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Oscar-Pistorius-shoots-girlfriend-reports-20130214
     
  2. Knighthawk

    Knighthawk Member

    I can't even imagine how you deal with the guilt.
     
  3. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    The central question is whether Oscar Pistorius himself is a Replicant.
     
  4. ifilus

    ifilus Well-Known Member

    Could this be the same 18-year-old girlfriend who "cheated on him with coal mining millionaire and Clifton Shores producer Quinton van der Burgh...while Pistorius attended the Olympics in London."?

    http://www.channel24.co.za/News/Local/Clifton-Shores-mogul-steals-Oscars-girl-20121121
     
  5. Rumpleforeskin

    Rumpleforeskin Active Member

    Saw this on Deadspin...

    I always knew Oscar was a fan of Bullet For My Valentine.
     
  6. Norrin Radd

    Norrin Radd New Member

    That is absolute Gold.
     
  7. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Her last words: "Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the 'good' man? C'mon, Oscar. Show me what you're made of."
     
  8. BrendaStarr

    BrendaStarr Member

    According to the AP, it was a 30-year-old woman. And in a story from the Sydney Morning Herald, the Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld is reporting it was Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend he allegedly mistook as an intruder. Obviously an all-around bad situation for all involved.
     
  9. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    Reports are now saying he will be charged with murder.
     
  10. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    I hate to hear this. I enjoyed watching him run this summer. I'll believe the "mistook for an intruder" defense at a later time, though.
     
  11. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Sounds shady.
     
  12. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    "I mistook her for an intruder" sounds to me like precisely the type of excuse one might concoct if forced to quickly come up with some explanation for why you just shot your girlfriend dead.

    A reasonable person does not immediately start blasting away at a suspected intruder without first seeing the person, or at least sounding some prior warning telling them to go away.

    I didn't buy the schlocky story sold about this guy at the Olympics. And I don't buy his story now.
     
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