Lochte Robbery Story: True or False
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It's okay--you Flat Earthers unite on the planets edge and so on. |
Anonymous
Haha. You may literally be one of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with. Please keep posting. I'm loving it. 
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Anonymous
+2. For the millionth time, no one is disputing that Lochte is ALSO an ass. The two aren't mutually exclusive. |
Anonymous
Enjoy your vacation to Rio, where you pay $10.8k for the privilege of saying publicly that a person in uniform drew a gun on you. An excellent system of justice. |
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| Lyin' Ryan... |
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The last time I checked, if someone pulls a gun on you and demands money, that is in fact, an armed robbery. If my neighbor destroys my fence, and I pull a gun on him and demand that he pay for it, I'm going to jail. Why aren't the Brazilian police charging the security guards with a crime? Oh, right, it's Brazil. The swimmers were victims of crime and corruption in Brazil. The stories didn't match up perfectly, but the point still stands. As evidenced by the several other Olympians and coaches who have also been robbed in Rio.
People are acting like Lochte made up the entire story but, I believe the "real" story and the "swashbuckler" one are similar enough that it should not have been made into such a huge international incident. All of them were drunk, so surely details were fuzzy, and Lochte sensationalized it. Is that a crime? No. They should've come clean about the vandalism, and not embellished, but they were still robbed. |
Anonymous
well this went dark not surprisingly |
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seriously dude yawn
Go clean your guns or something. |
Anonymous
You think the Brazilians meant to keep them there for a long time? No. Brazil may be corrupt, but they are not complete fools. They want to send a message that pulling a "Lochte" will not be tolerated. I think the message was heard. Yes, Brazil has a lot of crime and theft and they have a hard time controlling that. But the last thing they need are people from outside (millionaire Olympic medalists no less) coming to commit more crime and lying and getting away with it. It doesn't sit well with the natives (just as it doesn't and wouldn't here). They had to set the record straight and the US OC understood that and the truth was out there. They never meant to keep them there . . . and the US OC knew that. Lochte crossed a big line that Brazil could not turn away from. |
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That charity donation aspect sounds shady AF. No one looks good in this story: the swimmers are white male privileged asshats and Brazil is definitely a banana republic.
What a joke. |
Anonymous
All the Brazilians I've seen posting on various news articles (not representative, I know), are outraged that Americans would trash a bathroom, disbelieve the guard pulling a gun because that would be wrong of him, and think justice was well served by yanking the two off the plane and now requiring a $10k charity donation from Feigen. That's their system of justice and, though they complain about corruption, they are happy with it. |
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I agree with this. I don't see ant ass kissing in this piece at all. She points out actual robberies and says the games aren't really safe. Reporting that officials are sensitive about these problems and the world's perception of Rio is just a fact. She certainly doesn't ignore or deny that there are problems. THAT would have been ass kissing. |
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Being forced to pay for things you broke is not robbery. It's not how the US would've handled things but it's not like they were innocent, well behaved Angels visiting this gas station and feeding the poor and homeless. |
Anonymous
Sure, and paying$10k for complaining about it is totally fine, that's just how they do things there. |