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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    Not sure if I like the observation of my wife's cooking looking like sewage, or the fact that I can enjoy a beer with my friends. I don't need to defend myself here as I think you know where I stand on guns but more rude observations are not called for thanks. Just because some here do not like to enjoy the differences in our chosen partner's culture does not mean we need to insult it. I say no more.
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    Pistorius sentenced: 5 years in prison...
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    Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
    Pistorius sentenced: 5 years in prison...
    but will only serve 10 months.

    what a JOKE.


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    5 years should be 5 years, also that's not enough!


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    Quote Originally Posted by primdale View Post
    but will only serve 10 months.

    what a JOKE.
    yeah.. a complete joke!
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    It seems we're not alone with an imperfect judicial system.


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    What's not imperfect about it? The guy has been destroyed by the trial and what he did (freely admitted) to his girlfriend who by all accounts he loved. What purpose does giving him longer serve?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    What's not imperfect about it? The guy has been destroyed by the trial and what he did (freely admitted) to his girlfriend who by all accounts he loved. What purpose does giving him longer serve?

    Steve, and whose fault is it? It's not your or my fault that this happened, its entirely Pistorius, so he has to face the consequences, his Gf didnt ask to be shot dead.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    What's not imperfect about it? The guy has been destroyed by the trial and what he did (freely admitted) to his girlfriend who by all accounts he loved. What purpose does giving him longer serve?
    I think that I have more sympathy to Reeva and her family for losing her the way it happened than Pistorius being destroyed for what he did. They have to live their whole lives knowing she was horribly killed. At the end of the day, Pistorius brought the whole mess he is suffering now by himself. He's not the victim here, and I would never see him as the victim.
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    The whole trial has been a drama. Why should he only serve 10 months in jail and rest at home?


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    The Judge made the decision.. end of. No need for a baying mob. I am not suggesting that he is a victim, but both sides were heard, the evidence digested and considered. Of course nothing brings back Reeva, but life goes on. Too many people want more blood but it achieves nothing.
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    I will not say if five years is too much or too little but what I don't agree with is only serving ten months if he is given a five year sentence. That's what makes a joke of the system in my opinion. If you are given a certain amount of time to serve you should serve it in prison as intended.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    What's not imperfect about it? The guy has been destroyed by the trial and what he did (freely admitted) to his girlfriend who by all accounts he loved. What purpose does giving him longer serve?
    A bit naive if you ask me. He was hardly going to say anything different when his liberty was at stake. He's going to serve about 10 months for taking the life of a beautiful intelligent young girl. If it was one of my daughters I would feel as though the justice system had let my daughter down.


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    Yes the judge had made the decision. That does not mean it's the right one but unfortunately in this case he won her sympathy.


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    He gets to server over 4 years of his sentence on luxury house arrest with a millionaire.

    The judge did not accept Oscar's testimony, yet she based the verdict on just that!

    This morning the judge said that she had concluded that if his intention was to kill, he would have shot higher up! Especially as he knew he was using lethal exploding bullets.

    I wonder if the prosecution will appeal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    What's not imperfect about it? The guy has been destroyed by the trial and what he did (freely admitted) to his girlfriend who by all accounts he loved. What purpose does giving him longer serve?
    It's called 'justice'.


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    Quote Originally Posted by andy222 View Post
    Its called justice.
    Somehow I don't think the girl's family would share those views.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    What's not imperfect about it? The guy has been destroyed by the trial and what he did (freely admitted) to his girlfriend who by all accounts he loved. What purpose does giving him longer serve?
    I watched his lawyer say he had lost everything, except one thing, his life, unlike his g/f

    I hope they appeal and he gets 10yrs in prison, that's 10yrs more living than his g/f got to live
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    Quote Originally Posted by Win2Win View Post
    He gets to server over 4 years of his sentence on luxury house arrest with a millionaire.

    The judge did not accept Oscar's testimony, yet she based the verdict on just that!

    This morning the judge said that she had concluded that if his intention was to kill, he would have shot higher up! Especially as he knew he was using lethal exploding bullets.

    I wonder if the prosecution will appeal.
    I hope so,

    If he shot higher up he probably would have missed her after the first shot

    bullets fired from athlete's 9mm pistol were designed to 'cut through organs of a human being'
    Reeva Steenkamp was standing in a toilet cubicle and facing the closed door when she was hit in the right hip by the first of four hollow-point bullets fired at her by Oscar Pistorius, a police ballistics expert testified on Wednesday at the double-amputee Olympic runner's murder trial.

    Steenkamp then fell back on to a magazine holder in the cubicle and was struck in the right arm and head by the last two shots fired by Pistorius with his 9mm pistol through the door. Pistorius's girlfriend crossed her arms over her head to protect herself, Captain Christian Mangena said, when she was hit in the arm and head. He testified that he believed the second bullet shot missed Steenkamp and ricocheted off a wall inside the cubicle and broke into fragments, which caused bruising on her back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ako Si Jamie View Post
    Pistorius will be sentenced on Monday. I reckon he won't get more than 5 years.
    Bingo!


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    I'm thinking if Pistorius wouldn't have been who he is, like a black guy and not famous, the prosecution would get the conviction they were asking for, murder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by les_taxi View Post
    I had chocolate 'Angel Delight' recently! It really did look like poo!
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    Something's gone wrong there Les . And what's that green stuff?


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    Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
    I'm thinking if Pistorius wouldn't have been who he is, like a black guy and not famous, the prosecution would get the conviction they were asking for, murder.
    Unless the black guy was also rich and famous, as with O J Simpson in America.


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    Quote Originally Posted by les_taxi View Post
    I had chocolate 'Angel Delight' recently! It really did look like poo!
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    Hmm ... , Les - reminds me of what we (as kids) used to call a ... ... "cow's pancake"!


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    Unless the black guy was also rich and famous, as with O J Simpson in America.
    Well he's still locked up in prison. I don't think Pistorius will be for a long time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ako Si Jamie View Post
    Bingo!
    Technically he got 8 years for 2 convictions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
    Well he's still locked up in prison. I don't think Pistorius will be for a long time.
    Alas not for the Murder.


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    If he does 10 months that is about right IMO.


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    Well if had killed MY Daughter I would probably have paid a sniper to take him out


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