Accused murderer Oscar Pistorius listens to testimony Tuesday, when Darren Fresco described a night in which Pistorius randomly fired a Glock from a car.  Oscar Pistorius asked a buddy to “take the rap” after he accidentally fired a pistol in a crowded Johannesburg restaurant.  Testifying at the fallen Olympian’s murder trial, Darren Fresco said Tuesday he passed Pistorius the .40-caliber Glock 27 under the table and warned him it was “one-up,” meaning it had a bullet in the chamber.  RELATED: OSCAR PISTORIUS VOMITS OVER DETAILS OF GIRLFRIEND'S DEATH  “I knew that he had a big love for weapons ... my assumption was that he had competency,” Fresco said.  RELATED: MANY MORE WITNESSES LEFT TO GO IN OSCAR PISTORIUS TRIAL  “A shot had gone off,” Fresco testified. “None of us knew where the shot went off, where the bullet had projected to. We all got a big fright because none of us realized what had happened.”  The South African sprinter then tried to save his own skin.  RELATED: OSCAR PISTORIUS EX SAMANTHA TAYLOR: ‘CHEATED ON ME WITH REEVA’  “Instantly, he passed the weapon back to me, under the table,” Fresco said. “He said, 'There is too much media hype around me at the moment, can you please take the rap for it?' Being a friend I said I would, with pleasure."  This was a month before Pistorius shot and killed 29-year-old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013.  RELATED: OSCAR PISTORIUS 'PRAYED TO GOD' FOR GIRLFRIEND TO LIVE  Pistorius, a double-amputee known as the “Blade Runner” for his scythe-like prosthetic legs, insists he killed Steenkamp in the mistaken belief that an intruder had broken into the bathroom of his Pretoria home.  Prosecutors say Pistorius fought with Steenkamp before he fatally shot the cowering bikini model through a bathroom door — and put Fresco on the stand to buttress their argument that the athlete is a reckless gun nut.  RELATED: OSCAR PISTORIUS' NEIGHBOR HEARD MAN, WOMAN SCREAM NIGHT OF SHOOTING  Before Fresco testified, Pistorius was snubbed by his wife Beatrix. She recoiled when Pistorius extended a mitt in greeting and waved it away like it was infected.  Pistorius, 27, continued on to his seat, where a green plastic bucket awaited him.  RELATED: OSCAR PISTORIUS STARTS CRYING DURING TESTIMONY  Unlike on Monday, when a pathologist’s gory description of Steenkamp’s death caused him to vomit violently, Pistorius did not lose his lunch when Fresco began describing how the jock lost it on a cop who dared to touch his gun.  Fresco said they and the runner’s ex-girlfriend Samantha Taylor were on a joyride when they were stopped for speeding.  RELATED: REEVA STEENKAMP’S MOTHER: ‘I CAN FORGIVE’ OSCAR PISTORIUS FOR KILLING  “Oscar had come around to the driver's side to see what was going on,” he said. “Another metro policeman had gone around to where Oscar was sitting. He picked up Oscar's gun off his seat.”  Pistorius flipped out on the officer, Fresco said.  “He shouted, ‘You can't just touch another man's gun’!” he said. “Your fingerprints are on my gun, so if something happens you will be liable.”  Later, once the cops were gone, Pistorius fired a short through the sunroof.  "Are you f-----g mad?" Fresco said he told Pistorius.  Pistorius “just laughed,” he said. “By at that stage it literally felt as if my ear was bleeding. I had a constant ringing in my left ear.”  Taylor gave similar testimony about the joyride earlier.  Hailed as a national hero after he competed in the London Olympics, Pistorius now faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
Olympian Oscar Pistorius' friend Darren Fresco shouted at him after Pistorius fired a shot without warning through the sunroof of the car they were driving in.