Blade Runner mistakes girlfriend for Replicant, shoots and kills her

Baron Scicluna · Feb 14, 2013

Ty Cobb's mom shakes her head.

Ace · Feb 14, 2013

I would guess that when people say they shot someone thinking they were an intruder (which is a surprisingly common occurrence) they are lying 99 percent of the time.

Even given the benefit of the doubt, I think anyone who uses that excuse deserves jail time for discharging a firearm without knowing who or what the hell you are shooting at.

Steak Snabler · Feb 14, 2013

Whatever his defense is, I'm sure he won't have a leg to stand on in court.

Too soon?

Ace · Feb 14, 2013

Steak Snabler said:

Whatever his defense is, I'm sure he won't have a leg to stand on in court.

Too soon?
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Ouch.

JackReacher · Feb 14, 2013

Steak Snabler said:

Whatever his defense is, I'm sure he won't have a leg to stand on in court.

Too soon?
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Nope.

Captain Obvious · Feb 14, 2013

A neighbor heard shouting at the home before the shooting.

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB10001424127887324162304578303291198849374.html

Just waiting for the "How did a good guy turn bad?" stories to appear, which always ignore the fact the subject was probably bad all along.

Small Town Guy · Feb 14, 2013

Police say the intruder bit did not come from them. And there were previous domestic incidents at the house. Violent home invasions are a huge issue in South Africa so maybe he's going to try and pull that off as a defense. Or use Charlize Theron's mom's defense and say it was self-defense.

JR · Feb 14, 2013

Stoney said:

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.
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Well, unless you live in Florida or Texas.

Orange Hat Bobcat · Feb 14, 2013

If you plan to follow the story from this point, it might be worth your time to go back and read the New York Times Magazine story written by Michael Sokolove and published last January. A few choice excerpts: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/oscar-pistorius.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Hanging out with Pistorius can be a great deal of fun. You also quickly understand that he is more than a little crazy. I asked him about the tattoo on his left shoulder, a Bible verse from Corinthians that begins, “I do not run like a man running aimlessly.” He said he got it on a visit to New York. He was staying at a hotel in SoHo, and couldn’t sleep, so he took the subway uptown and just walked around. “I went into an all-night tattoo parlor,” he said. “Some Puerto Rican guy did it. It took from 2 a.m. to about 8:30. I think he was falling asleep after a while, which is why it’s a little squiggly at the bottom. But I like it that way. To me, it makes it look more authentic.”

In 2008, Pistorius crashed his boat into a submerged pier on a river south of Johannesburg. His face and body hit the steering wheel, and he broke two ribs, his jaw and an eye socket. Doctors had to sew 172 stitches in his face. More recently, while riding his dirt bike through tall grass, he clipped a fence and turned around to see one of his prosthetic legs swinging from a section of barbed wire, an unwelcome sight, for sure, but less dire than if it had been a biological leg. It was one of the only times that it occurred to him that having prosthetic lower limbs may confer some advantage.

The people around Pistorius worry about his risk-taking, but there’s only so much they can do. His manager, Peet van Zyl, shrugged when I asked him about it. “It’s the nature of the man,” he said. “At least we did get the motorbike away from him.”
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On one of the days we spent together, it was rainy and unseasonably cold for mid-December, summer in South Africa. Pistorius went through an arduous morning workout, then a long photo session for this article. He still had to complete the second of his two daily training sessions, this one on the track, late in the afternoon at the University of Pretoria, where he has been slowly working his way to an undergraduate degree. He was tired and more irritable than I had seen him. He suggested we drive back to his house and have lunch, after which he figured he would watch TV and probably fall asleep on the couch. I climbed into the passenger seat of his car, a Nissan GT-R. I was already accustomed to his driving, though I wouldn’t say entirely comfortable with it. The first time I drove with him, I peeked at the speedometer and saw the needle on 250 kilometers per hour. (That’s 155 miles per hour.) People congregate around his vehicle — the “white monster,” his manager called it — just to hear it idle.

“How’s this car in the rain?” I asked. There was standing water on the roadways, and I feared we might hydroplane into oblivion. “It’s good,” he answered as he accelerated and my neck snapped back against the headrest. “It’s a very heavy car, which is helpful, though maybe the tires are not the best for these conditions.”
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I remember reading that and thinking that there might just be a loose screw somewhere in his mind, and there might be.

Dick Whitman · Feb 14, 2013

Orange Hat Bobcat said:

If you plan to follow the story from this point, it might be worth your time to go back and read the New York Times Magazine story written by Michael Sokolove and published last January. A few choice excerpts: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/oscar-pistorius.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Hanging out with Pistorius can be a great deal of fun. You also quickly understand that he is more than a little crazy. I asked him about the tattoo on his left shoulder, a Bible verse from Corinthians that begins, I do not run like a man running aimlessly. He said he got it on a visit to New York. He was staying at a hotel in SoHo, and couldnt sleep, so he took the subway uptown and just walked around. I went into an all-night tattoo parlor, he said. Some Puerto Rican guy did it. It took from 2 a.m. to about 8:30. I think he was falling asleep after a while, which is why its a little squiggly at the bottom. But I like it that way. To me, it makes it look more authentic.

In 2008, Pistorius crashed his boat into a submerged pier on a river south of Johannesburg. His face and body hit the steering wheel, and he broke two ribs, his jaw and an eye socket. Doctors had to sew 172 stitches in his face. More recently, while riding his dirt bike through tall grass, he clipped a fence and turned around to see one of his prosthetic legs swinging from a section of barbed wire, an unwelcome sight, for sure, but less dire than if it had been a biological leg. It was one of the only times that it occurred to him that having prosthetic lower limbs may confer some advantage.

The people around Pistorius worry about his risk-taking, but theres only so much they can do. His manager, Peet van Zyl, shrugged when I asked him about it. Its the nature of the man, he said. At least we did get the motorbike away from him.
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On one of the days we spent together, it was rainy and unseasonably cold for mid-December, summer in South Africa. Pistorius went through an arduous morning workout, then a long photo session for this article. He still had to complete the second of his two daily training sessions, this one on the track, late in the afternoon at the University of Pretoria, where he has been slowly working his way to an undergraduate degree. He was tired and more irritable than I had seen him. He suggested we drive back to his house and have lunch, after which he figured he would watch TV and probably fall asleep on the couch. I climbed into the passenger seat of his car, a Nissan GT-R. I was already accustomed to his driving, though I wouldnt say entirely comfortable with it. The first time I drove with him, I peeked at the speedometer and saw the needle on 250 kilometers per hour. (Thats 155 miles per hour.) People congregate around his vehicle the white monster, his manager called it just to hear it idle.

Hows this car in the rain? I asked. There was standing water on the roadways, and I feared we might hydroplane into oblivion. Its good, he answered as he accelerated and my neck snapped back against the headrest. Its a very heavy car, which is helpful, though maybe the tires are not the best for these conditions.
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I remember reading that and thinking that there might just be a loose screw somewhere in his mind, and there might be.
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That can go either way, though, right?

(1) "Loose screw" means man is more likely to shoot his girlfriend dead;

(2) "Loose screw" means homeowner is more likely to shoot suspected intruder first, ask questions later.

Small Town Guy · Feb 14, 2013

Latest AP story:

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=XoSGdsA8

Pistorius enjoyed target shooting with his pistol and an online advertisement featuring him for Nike read: "I am a bullet in the chamber." An article in January 2012 in The New York Times Magazine described him talking about how he pulled a pistol to search his home when his alarm went off the night before an interview. At Pistorius' suggestion, he and the journalist went to a nearby target range where they fired at targets with a 9 mm pistol. At one point, Pistorius told the writer: "If you practiced, I think you could be pretty deadly."

Asked how often he went target shooting, Pistorius replied: "Just sometimes when I can't sleep."
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Inky_Wretch · Feb 14, 2013

Perhaps NBC should have checked local police records before devoting so much TV time to him?

South Africans were shocked at the killing. But while Pistorius captured the nation's attention with his Olympic dreams, police said there was a history of problems involving him.

There have "previously been incidents at the home of Mr. Oscar Pistorius," said police spokeswoman Brigadier Denise Beukes. Police in South Africa do not name suspects in crimes until they have appeared in court but Beukes said that the 26-year-old Pistorius was at his home at the time of the death of Steenkamp and "there is no other suspect involved."
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