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Oscar Pistorius : .8 secs from qualifying for the normal Olympics

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Seems like it should be pretty easy to confirm or refute Pistorius's story from ballistics, since he says he didn't have his magic legs on yet and so would have been shooting from pretty low down. His whole story is pretty weak IMO.
 
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This is an absolutely tragic story, whether he is guilty or not. The timing co-incides with an awesome rape of Anene Booysen and the media picked this up immediately as a gender abuse story. I know that she was an FHM model and the like, but I know people who know her very well and everyone of them says that she was truly an exemplary soul, full of kindness for everyone. It is just tragic.

So, what happened? No one knows right now. Was Pistorius angered by SMS messages to her cellphone from one of the players on the Springbok rugby team? Was he drunk (they took blood and didn't bring that up, so apparently not)? Is he a loose cannon with a love of firearms and a short fuse?

Or is he just a man who lives large in the public mind but shrinks to the notion of someone tackling him in the night without his prostheses? What about the ladders that workmen left up against his house that day, which someone could have used to come in that bathroom window? Wouldn't a fan have covered the sound of her getting up to go to the restroom? If he was shouting, "run, hide" to her, wouldn't she have cowered quietly in the bathroom?

What's the truth?

The problem is that the investigating cop is now being portrayed as a cowboy, who chased down a minibus full of riders while drunk and fired shots at it with his drunked fellow cops. He made false claims about finding testosterone in Pistorius' home, walked around the crime scene without putting on protective shoes, and otherwise messed things up.

Just because the cop was forced to admit that the evidence is completely consistent with Pistorius' story doesn't mean that Pistorius is out of the woods on this one, by any stretch of the imagination. Did he see this as an opportunity to make a name for himself and make sure that his own case for attempted murder did not go forward?

Whatever happens, a beautiful girl is dead and Pistorious' life is changed forever.
 
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