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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Shot-man-found-lying-on-road-20100622
Pretoria - A former policeman lay in the bitter cold alongside a car on the N14 highway for hours, waiting for help after he was shot nine times under mysterious circumstances.

Charl Marais, 43, has been kept in an artificially induced coma at Unitas hospital in Centurion since he was found next to the car at about 06:00 on Saturday morning.

Marais, who was in Koevoet for years, was declared medically unfit by the police about eight years ago due to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Since then, he has been doing security work in war-torn areas across the world.

Questions

George van Schoor, with whom Marais stays when he's in South Africa, said there are a number of questions regarding what happened to his brother-in-law.

"We're waiting for him to wake up so he can tell us what happened," said Van Schoor. "All I know is, you don't shoot someone if you want to warn them."

On Friday night, Marais said he was going to visit friends in Lyttelton.

He arranged for his niece Laure, 20, to stay up so she could switch off the alarm when he came home.

But Laure fell asleep. She woke with a fright at 04:45 and realised her uncle wasn't home yet.

She phoned him then, and again two hours later, but both times his cellphone was dead.

At about 07:30 a police official broke the news to them that Marais had been found on the N14 highway, about 3km from the R55 off-ramp at Olievenhoutbosch.

"Someone who drove past there saw him lying in the cold against the back wheel of the car," said Van Schoor.

Ice-cold

"He must have gotten out to and try get someone's attention. It's not clear how many hours he lay there, but when the police arrived he was ice-cold."

Marais was shot in his ribs, side, behind and stomach. He had nine bullet holes in his body.

According to Van Schoor, there are two bullet holes in the driver's seat, one in the floor of the car and one in the passenger door. There is also blood on the roof.

The car, which belongs to Van Schoor, had no fuel left and the battery was flat.

Marais's wallet, cellphone and a jacket belonging to Van Schoor were stolen.

"Someone shot to kill him," said Van Schoor.

"We don't know whether he was hijacked and whether they (the criminals) drove there with him or whether the car broke down on the side of the road. These are the questions we're struggling with."
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Wonder if the cold kept him from bleeding out?
 
Mila said:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Shot-man-found-lying-on-road-20100622
Wonder if the cold kept him from bleeding out?
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Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
 
Goldenrule said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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The thread is called Current Affairs, this is to the best of my knowledge a current affair.

Take your post whorish comments and stick 'em, now if you haven't anything of value to add shove off.

Geez 9 shots and still alive :O
 
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Oh so now we are getting personal.

Blaze that was what my reaction was 9 shots hours in the cold and still alive.
 
Goldenrule said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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You made no comment on the posted article...I agree with Blaze.

On topic. I hope he pulls through. 9 shots and still alive is very lucky indeed. Well so far. I never knew they could do a "artificially induced coma"?
 
Goldenshower said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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Perhaps you would like a warm cup of STFU with a dash of GTFO!

You are an idiot!
 
J0n0 said:
You made no comment on the posted article...I agree with Blaze.

On topic. I hope he pulls through. 9 shots and still alive is very lucky indeed. Well so far. I never knew they could do a "artificially induced coma"?
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They do it with head trauma they keep you under till the swelling your brain has occured reduced.
 
More than likely survived because of his exposure to the cold temperature. I remember a story where a guy shot a couple. Both of them were shot in the head and then dumped in an ice cold river. They both survived because of the cold water.
 
Goldenrule said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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Could you keep the ad hominem out of this? Thanks.
 
PeterCH said:
Hypothermia is actually beneficial. Reducing the temperature of the body and brain reduces metabolism, especially of the brain - this reduces oxygen and glucose requirements and saves brain, heart, kidney and other vital tissues from ischemic (low blood supply) injury for longer.
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Good info. Thanx. I did not know it works on adults too I saw that with the children that drowns and then they put them in a Hypothermic ( sp?) state and it reduces the brain damage. When I saw the article I wondered if this reduces blood flow too and saved the guy.
 
Goldenrule said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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Maybe you should save yourself some time and not read the posts?
 
TheRooster/JohnGalt/Killawhity said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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Rooster, why are you stalking Mila?
 
Thank you for posting the news sections without bias, Mila. Some of us do not have access to iol/news24 etc. since news sites are filtered out in our firewall settings.

It's always easier to read on here than to open a new page filled with advertising as well.

On topic: Those koevoet okes were rof and have loads of contacts. Somewhere someone is praying very hard that he doesn't wake up.
 
Goldenrule said:
Mila, thank you for your work to post up the entire news24 website here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did not post this because you just had to ease your curiosity as to if "the cold kept him from bleeding out." But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just post the url so we can go read the website ourselves if we're interested.
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Goldenrule, thank you for your work to post up the biggest horseshyte here every day. Even stories you seem to have no opinion on. I'm pretty much 100% convinced you did post this because you are a horses @rse. But perhaps you could save yourself some time and just piss off.

Jeeses, I've read some snide comments hereon MyBB but this takes the cake. If you don't like reading the CF section then just log off or go to another section. There is no need to snipe everyone's threads, and get off your high horse before you fall off it.

Back to the thread.

Yow, nine times and still alive!!!!! Incredible. Hope the guy survives.
 
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Voicy said:
Thank you for posting the news sections without bias, Mila. Some of us do not have access to iol/news24 etc. since news sites are filtered out in our firewall settings.

It's always easier to read on here than to open a new page filled with advertising as well.

On topic: Those koevoet okes were rof and have loads of contacts. Somewhere someone is praying very hard that he doesn't wake up.
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No amount of praying will help them. Koevoet are mal and dangerous.
 
Yeah, I for one am blocked from looking at IOL, NEWS 24 etc etc & I like reading Mila's quoted stories....

If you don't like reading his (posted) articles then don't read the freaking things. You sound like a typical News 24 follower who makes stupid comments after each article.

P.S. Step aside 50 Cent, South African coming through.
 
He was going to Lyttelton but the car run out of petrol on the n14 and the battery was dead - that seems very strange. Even stranger that there is blood on the roof of the car considering the area where he was shot? Condsidering his background, it could be safe to say that perhaps he fought back with his own firearm [which could have been stolen too].

It'll be interesting to hear what happens if he [hopefully] survives.
 
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