I’ve never had a good rant before so I apologize in advance but I just have to do it on two especially telling points.
1) KP (Killer Pistorius) testified that it was him screaming non-stop for 15 minutes before the shooting but after he entered the toilet and saw Reeva on the floor, he stopped screaming. Nel asked him … paraphrasing … “Why? Wouldn’t that be the time you would have screamed?” and KP replied, “Why, what was the point?” If ever, ever an innocent person was going to scream that he’d mistakenly killed the one he loved, this would be the precise moment where you’d start and never stop.
2) When Kim Martin gave her moving testimony, many people in the gallery started crying, including journalists. Sam Taylor cried too, and Reeva had been her rival. Nel’s voice actually broke. What did OP do, nothing, he just looked down.
For a person who can cry:
• when he’s asked to look at a photo of Reeva’s head and crime scene photos that he’s probably seen many times over the course of 18 months
• whenever Nel asked a hard question, and there were many
• when Roux outlined all the things that he’d lost – fame, fortune, career, home and properties, friends and self-respect,
isn’t it absolutely amazing that he couldn’t and didn’t shed one tear when Kim was talking about Reeva, describing how the family missed her, and had suffered and will continue to suffer. Her tears were genuine, unlike his. Many reporters and those in the legal profession said they’d never heard an accused cry or put on a display such as his – crying, wailing, retching over and over and over.
“Whatever the reason is for summoning the tears, crying on the spot is possible".
• think back to the loss of how it feels when you’re going to miss out on something you've worked really hard to achieve
• think of something that could happen in the future
• when you’re confronted with the idea that you’re not how you see yourself
• dig deep into your emotional self and let it all out, concentrating only on you – not your surroundings, not the situation, just on you
• it can cause you to get sleepy
• irritate your eyes. A common method for starting tears is to cause your eyes discomfort
• rub your eyes. Close your eyes and rub your eyelids for about 25 seconds. Open them and stare at something until the tears start rolling. You might not get it the first time but it can work wonders. Rubbing can leave your eyes sore but if done gently, it can help redden the complexion around your eye area, too
• hold your nose very tightly so you can't breathe through it
• yawn repeatedly
• sob by making crying noises while taking deep breaths
• once you’re crying, cover your face with your hands and lower your head
• rest your head on something in front of you in a gesture of hopelessness or attempt to self-compose
• when speaking, constrict your vocal cords. Aim to stutter your words and add in long intakes of breath to add to the effect. Ramble on about the thing that has supposedly caused you to feel upset
http://www.wikihow.com/Cry-On-the-Spot
The above website may have taught him all he knows about turning on the tears. I think we’ve all seen pictures of every point mentioned.
There are many other things that cause me to detest KP but it’s better perhaps to leave it at this.