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The minister of sport for the interim government said that security is outstanding and nothing has happened to people who were out at appropriate times in appropriate places.
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Aug 15, 2016 00:19
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joepinetree posted:The minister of sport for the interim government said that security is outstanding and nothing has happened to people who were out at appropriate times in appropriate places. I'm fine and I was at home, checks out imo.
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Aug 15, 2016 01:36
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Aug 15, 2016 04:13
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Bwahahahahaha
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Aug 15, 2016 04:18
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To be fair, his quote was more like "we found out that chemistry isn't an exact science", which is more bad levity than ignorance.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:37
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Aug 15, 2016 16:59
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As usual Kelly is the best:
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Aug 15, 2016 22:52
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I feel like Kelly isn't really trying anymore.
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Aug 16, 2016 04:29
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An overhead television camera suspended by cables crashed to the ground in the Olympic Park, injuring seven people including two children, in the latest of a string of mishaps to hit South America's first Games. No-one was badly hurt in the accident, which comes as another embarrassment for organisers already facing safety concerns after the armed robbery of US gold medallist Ryan Lochte and three of his team-mates at the weekend, as well as the robberies of two visiting government ministers. The aerial camera, encased in a heavy black cover, belonged to the official Olympics broadcast unit and fell about 20 metres after cables snapped, sending screams through the crowd, witnesses and officials said.
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Aug 16, 2016 05:02
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Mechanical engineering is not an exact science.
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Aug 16, 2016 06:33
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That one is on the IOC, not Brazil. 
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Aug 16, 2016 07:03
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joepinetree posted:The minister of sport for the interim government said that security is outstanding and nothing has happened to people who were out at appropriate times in appropriate places. The concept that near the venue for a major international event full of tourists everyone should be able to go out at any time seems to be unknown.
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Aug 16, 2016 07:55
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Well, as bad as security in Rio is, turns out that Lochte likely lied about the robbery. The police are claiming that Lochte couldn't provide the time, location, or even color of the cab he was in when the robbery took place. Now, it is very possible that the police would lie about something like this. But what sealed it for me was the video of them arriving at the village in the immediate aftermath of the robbery: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...club-party.html There is no chance in hell that they would take Lochte's money and leave behind not only their cell phones, but the huge rear end watch he was wearing. Between that and him surviving his refusal to lay down against robbers who apparently were fluent in English, that is all bullshit.
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Aug 17, 2016 02:24
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why the hell would you lie about that
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Aug 17, 2016 03:39
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AriadneThread posted:why the hell would you lie about that I don't think he's lying about losing that money or being threatened, but there's something weird about his story.
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Aug 17, 2016 03:42
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joepinetree posted:Well, as bad as security in Rio is, turns out that Lochte likely lied about the robbery. The police are claiming that Lochte couldn't provide the time, location, or even color of the cab he was in when the robbery took place. Now, it is very possible that the police would lie about something like this. But what sealed it for me was the video of them arriving at the village in the immediate aftermath of the robbery: On the other hand, Lochte's clearly a moron so his reaction doesn't reveal all that much.
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Aug 17, 2016 03:46
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You didn't get the part that I thought was far fetched. being robbed in Rio by fake (or real) police agents- totally beliavable Lochte not reporting it to the police or USOC or IOC for fear of getting into trouble while posting about it in social media - he is such a moron that its believable Lochte not remembering where it happened, when it happened, the color of the cab because he was too drunk - believable Lochte standing up to the robber and even having a back and forth with the rare one fluent in English, and then horsing around minutes after having a gun pointed to his head - less believable, but can be just a matter of embellishing The robbers taking his cash while leaving his (and everyone's) huge rear end watch, wallet, and, more importantly, cell phones - completely, absolutely, 100% unbelievable. Cell phones are by far the number 1 thing robbers go after in Brazil. I've had relatives robbed where the robber didn't even ask for money, just the cell phone. Being robbed is so common in Brazil that most people don't walk around with much cash on them. I have never, ever heard of a robbery in Brazil where the robbers went for cash and not cell phone or watch. Kidnapping someone and forcing them to go to an ATM? Sure. But leaving behind obviously expensive watches and cell phones while taking only cash? Every single Brazilian I know started claiming BS the second they heard that. joepinetree fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 04:03
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That's fair, the cellphone thing is a little odd and the watch is definitely less plausible.
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Aug 17, 2016 04:08
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joepinetree posted:You didn't get the part that I thought was far fetched. The Daly Mail got a video footage showing then arriving at the hotel, going through the metal detector and putting everything (including the things they claimed that was stolen) in the tray. They lied I still cant understand why
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Aug 17, 2016 14:23
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A man whose professional job, and sole marketable skill, is to swim really fast did something irresponsible and dumb to look cool on social media? EDIT: This is also a man who attempted to trademark the word "Jeah". Morrow fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 15:04
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What a jeahbroni.
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Aug 17, 2016 15:12
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/swimmer-ryan-lochte-passport-seized-8650224
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Aug 17, 2016 15:24
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Have the pool chemicals addled his brain or something?
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Aug 17, 2016 15:37
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joepinetree posted:The robbers taking his cash while leaving his (and everyone's) huge rear end watch, wallet, and, more importantly, cell phones - completely, absolutely, 100% unbelievable. Cell phones are by far the number 1 thing robbers go after in Brazil. I've had relatives robbed where the robber didn't even ask for money, just the cell phone. Being robbed is so common in Brazil that most people don't walk around with much cash on them. I have never, ever heard of a robbery in Brazil where the robbers went for cash and not cell phone or watch. Kidnapping someone and forcing them to go to an ATM? Sure. But leaving behind obviously expensive watches and cell phones while taking only cash? Every single Brazilian I know started claiming BS the second they heard that. Are the cell phones so popular to steal for the physical phone they can wipe and resell, or is it more for the identity theft possibilities? I imagine if you were the type of person to save your passwords in the phone you could pull a "woopsie" and just drop the phone real hard when going to hand it over to the thief.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:04
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davebo posted:Are the cell phones so popular to steal for the physical phone they can wipe and resell, or is it more for the identity theft possibilities? I imagine if you were the type of person to save your passwords in the phone you could pull a "woopsie" and just drop the phone real hard when going to hand it over to the thief. Cell phone repair and modding is HUGE in the third world, where labor and skills are plentiful, but money for parts not so much. Cell phones get wiped and resold, and broken or remotely locked ones like iPhones get stripped for parts and rebuilt into new phones.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:52
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davebo posted:Are the cell phones so popular to steal for the physical phone they can wipe and resell, or is it more for the identity theft possibilities? I imagine if you were the type of person to save your passwords in the phone you could pull a "woopsie" and just drop the phone real hard when going to hand it over to the thief. It's not identity theft. As evobatman mentioned, parts are huge. But there is also a huge black market for the cell phones themselves: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/20/americas/brazil-rio-phone-thefts/ The funny thing is that online comments are awash with Americans claiming that Brazilians don't believe Lochte because they are all socialists trying to protect the image of their country. When what really caused people to distrust the story wasn't the claim that it was fake police or that the IOC was lying, but that he stood up to the robbers and not only got away unharmed, but with his cell phone. A stolen cell phone is more profitable than pretty much anything else there.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:26
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Lmao he fled the country
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Aug 18, 2016 00:42
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He was clever. Others, not so much: https://twitter.com/peteralexander/status/766080339429031936 Also I'm pretty sure this is the first and only time Lochte has been referred to as clever, and I suspect it may well be the last.
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Aug 18, 2016 02:23
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Do we have an extradition treaty? Can we send him back?
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Aug 18, 2016 02:29
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Yes, although a decent US lawyer could throw a wrench in any Brazilian extradition requests pretty much indefinitely. I mean, this isn't a capital crime. It's more than likely that they got scammed at a brothel, lied about it to drum up some accolades, and then got found out because for once the policia civil decided to do their jobs.
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Aug 18, 2016 02:43
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I was about to ask you all...escorts, right? It has to be escorts. Also it's hilarious if the fact that they were famous gringos actually comes back to bite them in the rear end because they lied about a crime.
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Aug 18, 2016 02:47
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Why the gently caress would fit and attractive Olympians need to even leave the village if they wanted to gently caress some hot exotic women?
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Aug 18, 2016 02:50
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Cliff Racer posted:Do we have an extradition treaty? Can we send him back? They didn't report it to the police they tweeted it. How the hell can you pull people off planes or take passports for a loving tweet. Oh right, that's what 3rd world shitholes do. That judge must be really  about the games or something, this is like Chinese level face-saving. Dias posted:That's the one major fuckup in the organization, I have no idea why they didn't move the competition if the water is THAT bad like every foreign media organization is reporting. However, on the third mutant hand all Brazilians have due to pollution, Zika and having to hold an extra wallet to pay off police officers, it's also one of those things that are much worse for locals than for the event itself. They're reporting the pollution levels are under control where the events will happen and there's a concentrated effort to clean up garbage, so chances are everything is gonna run fine. Actually the Olympics have been a complete disaster and now there's a good chance that the para-Olympics aren't even going to happen now,  . You made Sochi look like a well done, corruption-free, and competently managed affair by comparison.Rap Record Hoarder posted:Yes, although a decent US lawyer could throw a wrench in any Brazilian extradition requests pretty much indefinitely. I mean, this isn't a capital crime. It's more than likely that they got scammed at a brothel, lied about it to drum up some accolades, and then got found out because for once the policia civil decided to do their jobs. It was never reported to the police, dude called his mother. Is tweeting a crime in Brazil now? You'd think they would have better things to worry about as people get murdered simply for driving down the wrong street. tsa fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Aug 18, 2016 02:51
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They didn't initially report it to the police. Once it was picked up by the media, they reported it to the USOC and were then interviewed by the police, where they did in fact confirm the robbery. It doesn't matter if you are not the one to first contact the police about something.
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Aug 18, 2016 03:01
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tsa posted:They didn't report it to the police they tweeted it. How the hell can you pull people off planes or take passports for a loving tweet. Oh right, that's what 3rd world shitholes do. Yeah, it's only 3rd world shitholes regularly infringe on people's right to free speech or misconstrue events in order to over-police otherwise meaningless infractions. Or is it: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/12/after-dallas-shootings-police-arrest-people-for-criticizing-cops-on-facebook-and-twitter/ Step down off your nationalist shitbox. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Why the gently caress would fit and attractive Olympians need to even leave the village if they wanted to gently caress some hot exotic women? Why wouldn't they?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Why the gently caress would fit and attractive Olympians need to even leave the village if they wanted to gently caress some hot exotic women? Maybe he was shy, and tad broke, and needed to save money?  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-06/sex-sale-how-brazils-prostitutes-prepare-olympics
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Aug 18, 2016 03:04
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Oh, dear, Vila Mimosa. Also the Olympics are running pretty much as I expected. The major fuckup was a green pool, I guess? For "the worst Games ever", I'll take it gladly.
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Aug 18, 2016 03:12
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Dias posted:Oh, dear, Vila Mimosa. A German coach died in a traffic accident, although I suppose that could happen anywhere (but where it did happen is a country with a decidedly poo poo road safety record). Shimrra Jamaane posted:Why the gently caress would fit and attractive Olympians need to even leave the village if they wanted to gently caress some hot exotic women? Would you gently caress Lochte when there's a veritable international smorgasbord of fit athletes who are probably way less stupid and insufferable than him?
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PT6A posted:A German coach died in a traffic accident, although I suppose that could happen anywhere (but where it did happen is a country with a decidedly poo poo road safety record). I mean, if you're pushing THAT on us, then whatever.
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