Thank you for that video! I didn't really want to watch it, but I did. He didnt really lift the dancer from the floor though, she literally kicked her weight up in to his arms as he was standing erect and straight, both times.
Watching him try to dance he looks very awkward and unstable. I think that it is wrong to believe that he would be able to easily lift Reeva's weight from the floor. He is literally standing on two stilts. Nest described that OP first pulled Reeva's body (torso) up in to a vertical position and then had to get the rest of her weight off of the floor so that she could be cradled in his arms. Even with his upper body strength it had to be very hard to get her off of the floor and cradled in his arms in a fully erect standing position. Obviously he pulled it off, but I give deference to it having been very hard to do without Reeva (the dancer) helping to lift her weight off of the ground. :twocents:
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I agree - OP looked very stiff in that dance video. IMO, he was a human equivalent of the pole during a pole dance. He added nothing to his dance partner's steps - if anything, he was a distraction. The tango is a lover's dance that should portray an elegant, fiery passion between two lovers.
It's painfully obvious that OP cannot dance. His dance partner led him through all his graceless steps.
IMO, the dance video highlights OP's general attitude: he believes he is the center of the universe and everything & everyone else revolves around him.
I also agree that even with his prosthetic legs and even with his upper body strength, it may have been difficult for him to lift Reeva from the floor. Reeva's body was not participating in the lifting.
The thing that causes me to be suspicious about his call to Stander to help him lift/carry Reeva is that he called Stander
before he called Netcare (before he was allegedly advised by Netcare to bring Reeva to the hospital himself).
Prior to calling Netcare, OP had not yet received any instruction from Netcare, let alone any advice from them telling him to personally transport a multiple gunshot-wounded, gravely injured victim to the hospital.
I can't shake my suspicion that OP may have called Stander for assistance of another kind and Stander may have turned him down, leaving OP with no option but to lift & carry Reeva himself - to who knows where. If so, I can envision OP finding the strength/ability to pick Reeva up, despite how difficult it may have been.
1. OP first called Stander (allegedly for help lifting/carrying Reeva) before he called Netcare.
2. OP then called Netcare, but claims he can't remember what he said to the dispatcher. OP claims the dispatcher told him to transport Reeva himself.
3. Security guard Baba calls OP. OP tells Baba "everything is fine".
4. OP then carries Reeva downstairs to discover several witnesses in his foyer/on his doorstep (Stander, Clarice, Baba, and another security guard, soon followed by Dr. Stipp).
5. According to OP's testimony, Stander tells OP to put Reeva down onto the floor. Prior to Dr. Stipp coming to the scene, towels, garbage bags, rope, and tape are collected in an effort to presumably staunch the blood flow. Yet, curiously, no one at the scene phones for medical help until after Dr. Stipp's arrival & insistence on phoning an ambulance, despite the fact that Reeva is lying on OP's floor with gunshot wounds to her hip, arm and head.
6. OP tells witnesses that he shot Reeva, mistaking her for an intruder.
During security guard Baba's testimony, he stated (paraphrasing) that the morning Reeva was shot was his "last night". I can't help but wonder if he meant that his employment was terminated, for whatever reason, after the fatal shooting of Reeva at OP's house.
To sum it up: OP was obviously able (despite the possible difficulty) to lift/carry Reeva without Stander's assistance. Therefore, I'm suspicious as to why OP would have called Stander to allegedly ask him to help lift/carry Reeva.
Stander's wife (overheard by Dr. Stipp) said "I hope this doesn't get out to the media". IMO, this one statement says a lot about the type of people OP made his first phone call to that fateful morning.
