When do you think it will dawn on Oscar Pistorius that he is hanging with the wrong crew? When do you think he will take a step back and see how this looks to people who don’t own guns, and don’t admit to pumping bullets into occupied bathrooms?

When a drug addict goes to rehab, the first thing they’re told is to get rid of their drug-using friends. And here we have murder-accused Oscar Pistorius ‘partying’ with a ‘tow-truck baron,’ who – once again – comes with a controversial past. Why don’t any of my mates get involved in ‘turf wars’ with other tow-truck company owners? Why don’t any of my friends own guns? Why isn’t my brother also up on manslaughter charges at the same time as me? The question must be asked, Oscar, have you EVER picked up a self-help book? You’ll notice a common thread linking all of them – to do with energy and ‘wishy-washy’ stuff like that.

This latest bout of information is all according to the Sunday Times, who this weekend reported on Oscar Pistorius’ night out on the town with Craig Lipschitz. Just to recap, Lipschitz was involved in – wait for it – “a vicious brawl with a bouncer in 2008.” So obviously Pistorius cruised into a party establishment with this guy last Saturday. And obviously the picture wouldn’t be complete without “at least four bodyguards,” to smoothen the edges. Did no-one tell him that nothing makes the Sunday Times harder than headlines about murder-accused Olympians hanging with controversial tow-truck drivers, surrounded by bodyguards? I doubt the Sunday Times could have dreamt it, and here Pistorius gives it to them on a plate. But, as I said earlier, the absolute beauty of this whole tragic tale, is that he doesn’t get that. He thinks family-spokesperson statements about reading the bible is all it takes to maintain his image after slaying Reeva Steenkamp, when in fact his entire being is submerged inside this macho culture, which churns out these ‘tragic’ tales. Are they tragic? Or are they a product of their environment?

That’s what I would be thinking to myself today if I had my face on the Sunday Times front page with Craig Lipschitz, as they report on how I was drinking and feeling up women. Pistorius will obviously deny he was drinking and feeling up women and he may be telling the truth – the Sunday Times wouldn’t be the Sunday Times if it didn’t touch on the sensational, and I’m sure anyone in South Africa with a standard eight will take that into account.

But that’s not the point.

The point is why were you there in the first place.

And why don’t you understand that it’s not a good idea?

For the same reason, I’m sure, that you don’t understand that shooting anyone through a closed bathroom door, is not a good idea.