Who knows what really happened? I just hope he is treated fairly.
Also, from a story linked on the same page-
"Lack of privacy within internal refugee camps is turning resident children into decadent imps."
Really, it's a sad story and I don't mean to make fun, but that seems like a funny way of putting it, at least going from Kenyan English to American English.
This is really serious. Drunk or not, trying to kill your wife with an AK47 is not something to take lightly. Imagine if something had gone wrong, someone easily could have wound up dead.
erm wrote:
I know, I should have better things to do.
You should of had better things to do.
Silly.
Of course it's serious, but we know him as a runner, and therefore it would have been worse for the sport if he had been arrested for doping. As it is, he's a thug, which is nothing new to the major sports ("soccer" included).
Figures that with all of their depth, the thug in the group ends up being the worlds greatest marathoner.
Morunner wrote:
so what will happen to Marathon World Record Assault he was gonna go for? All that is gonna be old news and no one will actually get close to breaking that world record. Wanjiru is the only person who can seriously challenge that record. I do not see any good Ethiopan there who has running passions like Wanjiru.
disagree... Duncan Kibet, James Kwambai, Geoffrey Mutai, and Patrick Makau all came close, and they aren't even the world's best. All they need to do to get the WR is run a fast course like Berlin or Rotterdam, not London.
so what will happen to Marathon World Record Assault he was gonna go for? All that is gonna be old news and no one will actually get close to breaking that world record. Wanjiru is the only person who can seriously challenge that record. I do not see any good Ethiopan there who has running passions like Wanjiru.[/quote]
I think we are now getting closer to the truth! It wasn't his fellow Kenyan runners who framed him, but rather the uninspired Ethiopian runners who want Gebrselassie to keep the record!! See, Geb knew that Wanjiru was coming for him and wanted to retire, but the Ethiopian government and "top" Ethiopian runners told Geb that they would "handle it" for him. Once Geb heard the plan, he gave it the go ahead and announced his return and then the plan was set into action!!
Are people seriously defending him? They found a gun in his home, one that witnesses said he used to attack others with. He attempted to murder two people and injure another. This man, fast or not, is a complete idiot and loser who needs to be locked up in prison before his drinking causes more damages. It's about time he serves some sort of sentence for his reckless lifestyle.
^That gun could have been set up in there. You don't know that. And for all you know, he didn't even try to injure the guard or his wife. Maybe it was all a frame to divorce Wanjiru and get his money. Just like that show on Tv where that lady poisoned her Husband and blamed it on heart attack, and then tried to kill her own daughter by trying to fram here. People are crazy.
Wow @ the blatant sexism on this board. Assumptions much?
dafsdfasdf wrote:
Are people seriously defending him? They found a gun in his home, one that witnesses said he used to attack others with. He attempted to murder two people and injure another. This man, fast or not, is a complete idiot and loser who needs to be locked up in prison before his drinking causes more damages. It's about time he serves some sort of sentence for his reckless lifestyle.
Does anyone else find it a little fishy that he was supposedly drunk? Elite marathon runners don't drink, or so I thought. Leads you to believe that anyone could do it.
Really??? wrote:
^That gun could have been set up in there. You don't know that. And for all you know, he didn't even try to injure the guard or his wife. Maybe it was all a frame to divorce Wanjiru and get his money. Just like that show on Tv where that lady poisoned her Husband and blamed it on heart attack, and then tried to kill her own daughter by trying to fram here. People are crazy.
What you said is certainly possible.
Phenom Man wrote:
dafsdfasdf wrote:Are people seriously defending him? They found a gun in his home, one that witnesses said he used to attack others with. He attempted to murder two people and injure another. This man, fast or not, is a complete idiot and loser who needs to be locked up in prison before his drinking causes more damages. It's about time he serves some sort of sentence for his reckless lifestyle.
Does anyone else find it a little fishy that he was supposedly drunk? Elite marathon runners don't drink, or so I thought. Leads you to believe that anyone could do it.
Are you serious?
Contrary to popular opinion, many elites actually DO go out on the town and are not complete social recluses. It's true that the top elite are usually smart enough to curb their drinking prior to major competitions, and during the heaviest periods of training, but that does not mean that they don't take it easy and hit the bars now and then.
If anything, it makes the story more believable, that a young elite athlete who seldom drinks, is more likely than other young men to fail at holding his liquor and control himself while under the influence.
Phenom Man wrote:
Does anyone else find it a little fishy that he was supposedly drunk? Elite marathon runners don't drink, or so I thought. Leads you to believe that anyone could do it.
You're kidding, right? Ever wonder why Evans Rutto so quickly fell from the top of the marathoning world?
dafsdfasdf wrote:
Really??? wrote:^That gun could have been set up in there. You don't know that. And for all you know, he didn't even try to injure the guard or his wife. Maybe it was all a frame to divorce Wanjiru and get his money. Just like that show on Tv where that lady poisoned her Husband and blamed it on heart attack, and then tried to kill her own daughter by trying to fram here. People are crazy.
What you said is certainly possible.
An elephant falling out of an airplane and happening to land on you and crush you to death is possible, almost anything is possible, but is it probable? No... Neither is it probable that the wife, house help, and police are in a big conspiracy to frame this guy.
It is a character assassination on Wanjiru. People trying to kill his talent thru his wife.
The man in that photo does not look like Sammy.
NonKenyan wrote:
It is a character assassination on Wanjiru. People trying to kill his talent thru his wife.
Non-Kenyan is likely an American liberal Democrat, nobody that they admire can ever be guilty of anything, regardless of any evidence, logic, or reason.
so what will happen to Marathon World Record Assault he was gonna go for? All that is gonna be old news and no one will actually get close to breaking that world record. Wanjiru is the only person who can seriously challenge that record. I do not see any good Ethiopan there who has running passions like Wanjiru.[/quote]
I think we are now getting closer to the truth! It wasn't his fellow Kenyan runners who framed him, but rather the uninspired Ethiopian runners who want Gebrselassie to keep the record!! See, Geb knew that Wanjiru was coming for him and wanted to retire, but the Ethiopian government and "top" Ethiopian runners told Geb that they would "handle it" for him. Once Geb heard the plan, he gave it the go ahead and announced his return and then the plan was set into action!!
CONSPIRACY THEORIES ALREADY?? Please people chill a bit here! All kidding aside, this is serious $hit he's in and probably no way out of it legally unless the running community or some ("OC") members step in or offers to do something to help him clear his name. I say, "Innocent until proven guilty!" Either way it goes, this is really a sad day for everyone who loves this sport.
msolfiujfjhfhj wrote:
dafsdfasdf wrote:What you said is certainly possible.
An elephant falling out of an airplane and happening to land on you and crush you to death is possible, almost anything is possible, but is it probable? No... Neither is it probable that the wife, house help, and police are in a big conspiracy to frame this guy.
Did you bother to read my post before that? Or are you one of those retards? I'm agreeing with you.
Kinda Like Kenyan turned American Simon Sawe beating the crap out of his wife in Dec 2007. Is this a Kenyan thing?
wejo wrote:
The charges are very serious.
More details here:
According to the prosecutor, Wanjiru came home drunk, got in an argument with his wife and then tried to shoot her and the watchman:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g-a9Gh0WOFl2eaB5x67JWiwb-kBQ?docId=CNG.4b039fbfe5344aa4cc3c3c8f18bc0291.721he had an illegal AK47 according to this article:
http://www.kbc.co.ke/news.asp?nid=68199