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OT: So were the US swimmers robbed or not?
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Which part? High crime rates in Rio? It's not something you can disagree with. It's fact.
did it hapen at a Wedding? Julie said theres no video at the wedding! oh..wait...ummm....
I disagree with your thinking when u said QUOTE "Anyone says they were robbed there the odds are very in their favor."
Don't understand how you figure that..so you are saying more people are robbed there than not?
Duh. Rio's crime rates are off the charts. The U.S. government lists it as "critical". Is this really news to you?
https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=17164
Not news..I know it has a very high crime rate...
Yet 11,000 athletes in Rio. 1 "confirmed" robbery at gunpoint (not even sure its confirmed yet)...crazy, crazy rate!!
It's a moot argument now anyway, considering the swimmers confirmed the story was made up...(per reports, not confirmed yet)
Apparently you didn't know.
Hahaha, the story was made up per confirmed reports that are not confirmed.
Relax people, let it play out. The orgasms some of you people have over this stuff isn't healthy.
And Rio is a pit. High crime rates are rampant. It doesn't matter whether someone is an athlete or not.
Hahaha, the story was made up per confirmed reports that are not confirmed.
Relax people, let it play out. The orgasms some of you people have over this stuff isn't healthy.
And Rio is a pit. High crime rates are rampant. It doesn't matter whether someone is an athlete or not.
But yet you don't believe the US government when it says the US murder rate is going down? Interesting. I wonder why?.
I discussed and conjectured in another thread. Given what I heard con TV earlier as much as a 5 hour discrepancy. Maybe Brazil is playing politics with the US. However muggings are common. I know of an ER doctor from NB-happened to him 10 years ago. According to himself he liked to hook up in NB clubs. Obviously he went to RIO to do similar
Given al above looks like an attempt to cover up something. Perhaps someone hooked up with someone they should not have or regretted. NBC already asked similar.
Anyone notice how everyone tried to get out of RIO so quickly?
On a more serious note RIO is known for CHEAP PROSTITUTION. To break down even further in the flavelas/elsewhere people are so poor they'll sell their daughters and I assume sons. Oft the younger the better.
Drugs, prostitution/bed hookup or underage girl (always pressure to cut back on ther later). My guess-hope I'm wrong. BTW learned of the above I bELieve, from one of my UNC profs who had a seedy rep who worked in the flavelas (under the guise of public health???).
Given al above looks like an attempt to cover up something. Perhaps someone hooked up with someone they should not have or regretted. NBC already asked similar.
Anyone notice how everyone tried to get out of RIO so quickly?
On a more serious note RIO is known for CHEAP PROSTITUTION. To break down even further in the flavelas/elsewhere people are so poor they'll sell their daughters and I assume sons. Oft the younger the better.
Drugs, prostitution/bed hookup or underage girl (always pressure to cut back on ther later). My guess-hope I'm wrong. BTW learned of the above I bELieve, from one of my UNC profs who had a seedy rep who worked in the flavelas (under the guise of public health???).
I get it. I never said otherwise, and no, it doesn't matter if they were an athlete or not.
But it does matter when there's security from all over the world in the place. It makes a big difference. Just because someone said they were robbed doesn't make it more likely than not they were..I stand by that point.
Because people closer to the situation dispute it. That's why. See Los Angeles and our mayor openly disputing the stats our esteemed President tried to pass off as fact about the city.
If someone says they were robbed in Rio, it is more likely they were than if someone says they were robbed in Carmel.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ain-team-member-robbed-gunpoint-rio/88935412/
maybe this Brit was with Lochte last tuesday night..?
We can confirm there has been an incident of theft involving a Team GB athlete returning to their accommodation,” Scott Field, Director of Communications for Team GB, told USA TODAY Sports.
The unnamed athlete was held up on the way back from a night out in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
maybe this Brit was with Lochte last tuesday night..?
We can confirm there has been an incident of theft involving a Team GB athlete returning to their accommodation,” Scott Field, Director of Communications for Team GB, told USA TODAY Sports.
The unnamed athlete was held up on the way back from a night out in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Rio police are a joke..the thief shows up at event,posing as photographer who was robbed of 40k of camera equipment and Rio police are ..confused..LMAO..THE SUSPECT IS THERE IN PERSON!
http://petapixel.com/2016/08/07/robbed-olympics-photographer-spots-thief-posing-venue/
http://petapixel.com/2016/08/07/robbed-olympics-photographer-spots-thief-posing-venue/
I still don't understand what incentive they would have to report this to police if it wasn't true. They were back at the village and safe and soon to be back in America. Perhaps they exaggerated, but why lie completely? How does reporting a crime cover some other embarassing act?
Probably not, but doesn't change the fact that Lochte did. Sorry if that doesn't comport with your world view.
You are like some incredible sleuth. You know everything from 3,000 miles away. I am impressed.
Cali. They lied....watch the security footage that was just released.
Doesn't take a sleuth to figure it out.
Can't post a link..but its embedded here. Nothing shows a robbery. Station was pretty crowded. They were drunk.
http://abcnews.go.com/International...guard-night-alleged-robbery/story?id=41481840
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It's being reported, but not proved, that the 4 American swimmers destroyed a toilet in a gas station and refused to pay for the damages until a security guard demanded they hand over money. Seems like they argued with the security guard and gave him some money before they left in their taxi.
Supposedly the two questioned by the Rio police (Conger and Bentz ) admitted the robbery story was false
Supposedly the two questioned by the Rio police (Conger and Bentz ) admitted the robbery story was false
This definitively proves they didn't get robbed at some point that night? Maybe they didn't, but I am not sure how you come to that conclusion based off of this video alone at the gas station.
Was their story that they got robbed outside of the bathroom of the gas station? That wasn't what I heard, but maybe that changed.
When some people start with a conclusion things are either lies or confirm their bias.
They didn't report it. Somehow a swimmer from Australia heard about the story and he released it back home the next morning. At that point, Lochte should've walked it back but he doubled down on the story because he's a goof ball.
They only talked to police when the incident went public and the police affirmatively contacted them. Why did they lie to police (assuming they did)? Well, you're in a foreign country, you caused damage and you're not sure what happens so you tell some story because you're getting on a plane and leaving the country. Lochte may be an idiot but he was smart enough to get on a plane and leave before being detained
The is such a weird and crazy story!
The bleach that he used for his hair must have leaked into his brain.
The bleach that he used for his hair must have leaked into his brain.
I just "destroyed a toilet" a bit ago. Didn't cause an international incident, far as I know.
Doesn't prove Lochte didn't get robbed at some time that night..or that week. Heck, doesn't prove he's never been robbed in his life.
You can come to the conclusion based on the video that the version of the story Lochte and his teammates said was FAR from the truth..hence, they LIED. Which is all I said.
Never came to any other conclusion otherwise.
Lots of athletes/coaches/officials have been robbed. Nobody cares. But this story about a US gold medalist getting robbed draws attention. That's why the Brazilians won't let it go.
Yeah, the US swimmers seem likely they're just douches who were not robbed.
But it's not 1 athlete out of 11k that were robbed. Just to name a few, a Belgian judo medalist was mugged, two Aussie rowing coaches were mugged, a bunch of Aussie athletes had their apartment robbed when they left due to a fire alarm, purportedly a British athlete has claimed he was robbed. A Portuguese Education Minister was mugged. Brazil's coordinator of security for the Olympics (how ironic) was subject to an attempted mugging.
