04009margaret
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Feb 14, 2006 - Nodded off at the wheel after setting off for Vicky Miles house, 400 miles from his, at 3am after they had a blistering row. One side of the vehicle was completely destroyed
2008 - His ex-stylist, Francois Louw, witnessed a terrifying temper tantrum
2009 - Cassidy Taylor-Memmory charged OP with assault when he punched a door so hard it fell on her leg following an argument with his then-girlfriend. Case took 4 years to settle
Feb 2009 - Boating accident
2011 - Stormed out of a BBC radio interview after taking exception to a question about his fight to take part in non-disabled athletics
Oct 2011 - Drunk and extremely abusive to 2 women at Kings of Leon concert
June/July, 2012 - Attends shooting range with friends, including Francois Hougaard, and fires at a watermelon which explodes. He says, Its a lot softer than brain but *advertiser censored** it feels like a zombie stopper.
July/Aug 2012 - Temper tantrum at Paralympics when he loses a race to Brazilian, Alan Oliveira whom he wrongly accuses of using illegal blades
Room-mate, Arnu Fourie changes rooms to get away from OPs constant screaming on the phone
Nov 2012 - Shoots through the sunroof of a car
Nov 4, 2012 - Enraged by jealousy, confronts and swears at Quinton van der Burgh at Kyalami racetrack about his relationship with Sam Taylor
Nov 2012 - Started sending threatening SMSes to Van der Burgh
Nov 2012 - Marc Batchelor, a friend of van der Burgh got involved and he and OP exchanged threatening SMSes with OP threatening to break his legs
Jan 2013 - Tashas shooting incident
Feb 2013 - Shoots and kills Reeva
Apr 2013 - 52 days after killing Reeva he turned up, uninvited, at a private party in Illovo, Joburg, hosted by a businessman. Guests said he was drunk, knocking back one drink after the other, including tequila shots. He hit on Kesiah Frank, a beautiful blonde model who holds a law degree. He asked her to dance and flirted with her repeatedly until she made it clear she was not interested.
Apr 2013 - Out partying with friends at the Kitchen Bar, throwing back shooters and patted a friends girlfriend on the bottom. Patrons were shocked and thought it horribly insensitive to go out for drinks with friends so soon after Reeva's death.
OP was accompanied by Craig Lipschitz who was involved in a vicious brawl with former bouncer, Guil Yahav. Lipschitz is always accompanied by 4 bodyguards. Yahav was implicated in the vicious murder of another bouncer, Patrick Caetano who was hacked to death with a butchers knife at the Kyalami Business Park and was caught on CCTV.
July 2014 OP attended The VIP Room nightclub with Guil Yahav He was intoxicated and got involved in an argument with Jared Mortimer. The clubs bouncers were asked to remove him after he then got into a confrontation with another man.
Miscellaneous:
2002 - At 15 he was allowed to drive Carls car illegally around Pretoria.
2004 - Bought his first car when he was 17, too young for a drivers licence.
Mothers had to remove their children from the gym because of his continual swearing.
His biographer Gianni Merlo said, "He could get very furious suddenly"
You may find these 2 articles interesting:-
"These were big red flags for me and I was quite surprised that no-one in the media or in his management team condemned it publicly," says Joffe. "He was showing a spoilt-brat attitude that came out a year later at the Paralympics [in 2012] when he embarrassed the country."
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26628573
This last article was written by Graeme Joffe who co-owned a racehorse with OP, a must read.
"The trials and tribulations of Oscar Pistorius (boating accident, assaults, threats) have been well documented but each time they would quickly disappear and almost treated as not a big deal. The youngster needed professional help but while he was making money for those around him, it didnt seem to matter."
"Oscar shouldnt have been at the Olympics in London in the first place - he didnt qualify but pressure from sponsors and politics made sure he was selected. We will leave the dirty laundry for another day, but would be interesting to know who was paid or promised what to make sure Oscar was at the Olympics."
http://www.sport24.co.za/Columnists/GraemeJoffe/Who-is-the-real-Oscar-20130218