Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just because it's the way it happens in Rio, doesn't mean that it's right or ok.

Yes, other countries have different laws and different judicial systems but I think that most rational people can agree that two civiilian men pointing guns at you and demanding that you pay for something is extreme and outrageous.

I strongly disagree. I find it flat out appalling that those athletes at least one of whom is a very wealthy man(and at 32 a grown ass wealthy man, btw) would trash private property in another country when, one hopes, they wouldn't dream of doing it here. All this while "representing us" at the olympics." Eff that.

This. Olympic athletes should be role models, not assholes.

The same should be said for parents, but just like Olympians, it's unfortunately not always the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband was in Dominican Republic for a bachelor weekend and they got stopped by police on the way to the airport and had to pay money to be allowed to keep going. Shakedowns happen in third world countries. If the athletes don't know this or won't conduct themselves appropriately the IOC should only have the games in developed nations.

I agree. Rio is not the place for the olympics.

[Anonymous]

I haven't read anyone defending Lochte. Not one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read anyone defending Lochte. Not one.

Haven't you heard? If you think shakedowns are not okay, you must love Lochte.

Once again, Lochte is an asshole who was in the wrong. Brazil ALSO handled it poorly. Rio is a crime ridden city where you are in danger on a regular basis.

Three different statements. One doesn't negate the others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read anyone defending Lochte. Not one.

Haven't you heard? If you think shakedowns are not okay, you must love Lochte.

Once again, Lochte is an asshole who was in the wrong. Brazil ALSO handled it poorly. Rio is a crime ridden city where you are in danger on a regular basis.

Three different statements. One doesn't negate the others.

Exactly! Apparently some people are having serious difficulty understanding that all of these statements can be true.

[Anonymous]

Also, if you think anyone is calling Rio a hellhole solely based on this incident, you're crazy. In addition to the copious numbers of other incidents detailed upthread, basic statistics and news stories back it up. Rio sucking isn't some secret and no one is saying Brazil holds the only sucky city in the world.

[jsteele]

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[Anonymous]

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Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

Even the swimmers involved don't seem to agree on what happened...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-rio-2016-two-u-s-swimmers-apologize-for-gas-1471701923-htmlstory.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even the swimmers involved don't seem to agree on what happened...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-rio-2016-two-u-s-swimmers-apologize-for-gas-1471701923-htmlstory.html

I'm not really surprised. It's kind of hard to remember details if you're that drunk.

[Anonymous]

So all this over a metal frame? Or, over a broken door and soap dish. Which one? If they couldn't get into the bathroom to begin with then maybe it was just the frame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So all this over a metal frame? Or, over a broken door and soap dish. Which one? If they couldn't get into the bathroom to begin with then maybe it was just the frame.

The LA times article makes it sound like it was a poster - and like the footage to back up the swimmers (not Lochte's) account was snipped.

[Anonymous]

I still can not get over them holding that kid's passport until he coughed up 12 grand. Awful.

[Anonymous]

Even worse:

https://swimswam.com/rio-public-ministry-appeals-increase-feigens-settlement-47000/

The Rio Public Ministry believes that the $10,800 charitable donation made by American swimmer Jimmy Feigen to escape prosecution for allegedly falsifying a police report is insufficient “given the gravity and negative repercussion of the fact.”

According to the USA Today, the Public Ministry, which is a prosecutorial body, originally asked Feigen to pay 150,000 Brazilian Reais, which comes out to just under $46,80000 USD. A judge later set the amount at 35,000 Reais, or about $10,900 at current exchange rates, which allowed Feigen to leave the country.

The donation is earmarked for the Instituto Reação (Reaction Institute), which is a judo academy founded by former Olympic medalist Flavio Canton. Among previous voluntary benefactors to the academy is American mixed martial arts superstar Rhonda Rousey, who made a $30,000 donation to the organization.

Feigen’s attorneys said that the Public Ministry’s demand was “disproportional” compared to his financial status, but the Public Ministry has appealed the amount saying that it was agreed to without their approval.

[Anonymous]

So the money that was extorted doesn't even go to like, feeding or housing the homeless. No no. $47k... To judo. Da hell.