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Anonymous wrote:The swimmers paid over $400 at gunpoint for a broken door and soap dispenser. Yes, sounds like they got robbed.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/Rio-Police-to-Question-3-US-Swimmers-on-Robbery--390539131.html

Because you know how much it cost to replace a commercial door and soap dispenser including labor--not to mention the fact that they would have done jail time in America for such a crime.

I'd say they got off easy.

I'm assuming you don't live in DC, PP. No one here is doing hard time for knocking down a door.

I don't think anyone, anywhere in this country is serving jail time for kicking down a door. Please...

Destruction of property? I'm sure there is someone somewhere in jail for this. A minority, no doubt.

I can't tell you how happy I am the athletes weren't minorities. Thank God! The things that would be said would've been far worse than the things said about the two Simones whose crimes were winning gold and being minority.

Can we please let ONE thread NOT be about racism? Please?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The swimmers paid over $400 at gunpoint for a broken door and soap dispenser. Yes, sounds like they got robbed.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/Rio-Police-to-Question-3-US-Swimmers-on-Robbery--390539131.html

Because you know how much it cost to replace a commercial door and soap dispenser including labor--not to mention the fact that they would have done jail time in America for such a crime.

I'd say they got off easy.

I'm assuming you don't live in DC, PP. No one here is doing hard time for knocking down a door.

I don't think anyone, anywhere in this country is serving jail time for kicking down a door. Please...

Destruction of property? I'm sure there is someone somewhere in jail for this. A minority, no doubt.

I can't tell you how happy I am the athletes weren't minorities. Thank God! The things that would be said would've been far worse than the things said about the two Simones whose crimes were winning gold and being minority.

Anonymous wrote:The video has chunks missing from it. You can see the guys getting out of the cab, wallets in hand, and walking off camera. Nothing they did before they got into the car indicates they were trying to escape from a wrongdoing or even talking to anyone about it.

I think it really was a shakedown, with more than one perpetrator and all wearing uniforms for the gas station. Lochte told his girlfriend and/or mom, who embellished to get press interest.

I agree it was a shakedown. I can understand why the swimmers said they were robbed - money was taken from them by force. In my mind, that is a robbery. And, the Rio chief of police indicated that the security guard who pointed a gun at the swimmers was justified in doing so. Really?
The fact that the video has footage missing makes me suspicious.
The press conference that the Rio police just held makes me even more suspicious.
I don’t trust them.

The video has chunks missing from it. You can see the guys getting out of the cab, wallets in hand, and walking off camera. Nothing they did before they got into the car indicates they were trying to escape from a wrongdoing or even talking to anyone about it.

I think it really was a shakedown, with more than one perpetrator and all wearing uniforms for the gas station. Lochte told his girlfriend and/or mom, who embellished to get press interest.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why they made up the robbery story. Why was it necessary to say anything at all? Why did they need to make up a cover story? We wouldn't have known about this incident if they hadn't said anything to begin with.

Because they were robbed. People held guns on them and took their money. Not complicated.

Agree. Maybe no one here was an angel. But generally Americans who find a gun pointed at them and cash demanded from them are going to consider it a robbery.

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Anonymous wrote:The swimmers paid over $400 at gunpoint for a broken door and soap dispenser. Yes, sounds like they got robbed.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/Rio-Police-to-Question-3-US-Swimmers-on-Robbery--390539131.html

Because you know how much it cost to replace a commercial door and soap dispenser including labor--not to mention the fact that they would have done jail time in America for such a crime.

I'd say they got off easy.

I'm assuming you don't live in DC, PP. No one here is doing hard time for knocking down a door.

I don't think anyone, anywhere in this country is serving jail time for kicking down a door. Please...

Destruction of property? I'm sure there is someone somewhere in jail for this. A minority, no doubt.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why they made up the robbery story. Why was it necessary to say anything at all? Why did they need to make up a cover story? We wouldn't have known about this incident if they hadn't said anything to begin with.

Because they were robbed. People held guns on them and took their money. Not complicated.

Anonymous wrote:I'd like a separate thread in which we examine the life of the person on this thread who thinks with absolute certainty that a 30-something celebrity multimillionaire athelete asks his mommy for pocket change and lies to her about going out at night. That's the real story here.

Hahaha. So true can't stop laughing. I imagine that poster having an only child, a boy, around the age of 2.

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I don't think anyone comes out of this smelling like roses. Why Brazil decided it was a good idea to make it into a major international brouhaha is beyond me.

By making this a major brouhaha it directs attention away from all of the things that have gone poorly there.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like there was extortion on the part of this security guard. Of course, the Rio officials are saying this guard did nothing wrong.
I hope all our athletes make it home safely.

Yep, sounds like a shakedown. Nothing wrong with that.

I don't think anyone comes out of this smelling like roses. Why Brazil decided it was a good idea to make it into a major international brouhaha is beyond me.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like there was extortion on the part of this security guard. Of course, the Rio officials are saying this guard did nothing wrong.
I hope all our athletes make it home safely.

Yep, sounds like a shakedown. Nothing wrong with that.

Anonymous wrote:Now a British Olympian is coming out saying he was robbed at gunpoint. That is all that has been released now. I hope this dude has already left the country.

One of the Australian swimmers was robbed, bit not at gunpoint. Note to self: when in Rio, be very very careful.

Seems like there was extortion on the part of this security guard. Of course, the Rio officials are saying this guard did nothing wrong.
I hope all our athletes make it home safely.

Now a British Olympian is coming out saying he was robbed at gunpoint. That is all that has been released now. I hope this dude has already left the country.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really shocked that some of you believe Lochte's story. He has already changed it since he first told it (no gun put to his head in second version, cab wasn't pulled over by fake cops in second version). When people tell multiple versions of the same event, that usually means they're lying.

One of the detained swimmers is from Rockville. Family and friends would probably like this all to go away quickly and quietly.

Oh yes. A family friend of theirs came in a few pages back and INSISTED it happened and shamed us all.

family friend, where are you?