There are so many questions Gerrie Nel can and has been asking Oscar Pistorius, and he’s done a bloody good job at reducing Oscar Pistorius to a dithering wreck. But one question we can’t help wondering, is yet to come up.
It’s unfathomable that someone so worried about his safety wouldn’t have a panic button on the wall next to his bed, or a remote panic button on the table next to his bed. And if he didn’t have one then his testimony about being worried about crime has no merit.
So the question is, why did he not use it? It’s the FIRST thing anyone I know does if they hear a noise in the night.
The question was raised by Hollywood director, Mike Jefferies, who made a good point on his Twitter feed:
The panic alarm is different to a normal sensor being triggered. If you trigger a sensor, the likes of ADT call you (from an unknown number) and you have to give a password. If you don’t answer or if you get the password wrong, they send a car over.
But if you press the panic alarm it will either trigger the house alarm AND send the cavalry immediately, or it will be a silent alarm AND send over the cavalry. Either way, the panic alarm is made 100% for the issue Oscar Pistorius describes – when you’re worried about someone being in or around your house with the intent to cause you harm. There will be an armed person IMMEDIATELY.
So that’s the big question we have for Oscar – why didn’t you press the panic button?
