by snarly | Apr 8, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies, Sports Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Not well. You can read a more complete version of his statement here. The main issue: Pistorius spends much more time talking about how upset he is than about how sorry he is. He uses the SorryWatch-unapproved terms “since this tragedy happened” and...
by sumac | Feb 17, 2014 | True Crime Apologies
Medical technician David Kwiatkowski was addicted to fentanyl. He had a simple way of getting this legally-controlled opioid, used for severe pain. At hospitals where he worked, he’d take pre-filled syringes of fentanyl, shoot up, refill the syringes with...
by sumac | Jan 19, 2014 | True Crime Apologies
Evening in Lihue, on Kaua’i. A truck comes out of nowhere. After the wreck, Tania Perneel was a little confused. She thought the guy helping her was the driver that had hit her car. She noticed a blue truck driving away – even noticed its pink bumper sticker –...
by sumac | Dec 20, 2013 | True Crime Apologies
Someone stole a life-sized statue of Jesus from a church in Toronto. This may have been easier than it sounds, since the statue was a) made of resin, b) outdoors, and c) not on a plinth but at ground level. Still, Rev. Maggie Helwig of the Church of St....
by sumac | Nov 4, 2013 | Sports Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Climber Joe Kinder was mapping out a new climbing route in the Sierra Nevada. The location was “an underground crag in the Tahoe region of California.” (Here “underground” does not mean he was spelunking. It means secret, known only to insiders.) Kinder’s a...
by sumac | Oct 8, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies, True Crime Apologies
On December 17th, 2010, Joanna Yeates disappeared. She was a 25-year-old landscape architect in Bristol, UK. Her absence was discovered on the 19th, when her boyfriend returned from a weekend away and noticed that the car hadn’t been moved and the cat...
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