Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 23:34     Subject: Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:So did he kick a door? Or a board? I still haven't figured out what they did?

A sign was taken off a wall it looked like a poster board in a metal frame from the video footage. Not sure how it came off the wall.

Apparently if a sign falls off a wall you can get robbed at gunpoint and then the rest of the world hates you because hey, it was vandalism. Um no it was a sign.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 23:30     Subject: Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

So did he kick a door? Or a board? I still haven't figured out what they did?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 23:20     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

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.


American laws etc. don't apply in Rio. Don't like it? Don't go to Rio and act like an ass.

The demand wasn't paying for "something". It wasn't a case of "I want this and don't have money, you pay for it." The demand was for damages the athletes caused.



And this is why a corrupt country should not be allowed to host the Olympics. If you don't want to be allowed to shakedown people, you don't get to host countries from all over.


Agreed. It's also a good reason for guests in such a country to be very, very careful.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 23:05     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

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.


Lochte is a confirmed asshole, but the Brazilian justice system is confirmed chock full of criminals.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 22:41     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

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.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 22:11     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:I get it that Lochte is widely despised and an embarrassment to the US Olympic team. But three things about this story keep my outrage firmly on the side of Brazil:

- Officials have investigated but brought forth no evidence of the damage supposedly done.
- There really can't be a legitimate legal system that allows on-the-spot demand for restitution.
- A five-figure fine for false allegations against the police - again with flimsy "investigation" and no evidence produced, sounds like a very good way to make abusive practices a normal and lucrative racket.


+1 Yup.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 22:02     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brazil, the country where you can have your passport confiscated and held indefinitely because a friend called what was actually an extortion of sorts, a "robbery"...until you pay them 11,000 USD to drop the investigation of course.


Yup. Lochte is a dumbass for sure but this incident reveals Brazil to be the corrupt shithole that it is.


This about sums it up. If corruption had a textbook...
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 21:56     Subject: Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

When did DCUM get infested by ignorant dumbasses like 17:31 and 21:32?
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 21:32     Subject: Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

This characterization of Feigen and his testimony by the Brazilian official, and the misdemeanor crime with less than 2 years in prison is pretty despicable. Why on earth was Rio selected to host the Olympics? Oh, that's right, they paid a lot of bribes for the honor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/19/u-s-swimmer-jimmy-feigen-lied-to-rio-police-because-he-wanted-to-protect-ryan-lochte-says-lawyer/
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 19:37     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brazil, the country where you can have your passport confiscated and held indefinitely because a friend called what was actually an extortion of sorts, a "robbery"...until you pay them 11,000 USD to drop the investigation of course.


Yup. Lochte is a dumbass for sure but this incident reveals Brazil to be the corrupt shithole that it is.


+1000000
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 17:31     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:Brazil, the country where you can have your passport confiscated and held indefinitely because a friend called what was actually an extortion of sorts, a "robbery"...until you pay them 11,000 USD to drop the investigation of course.


Yup. Lochte is a dumbass for sure but this incident reveals Brazil to be the corrupt shithole that it is.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 17:26     Subject: Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

3 min
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 17:24     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Brazil, the country where you can have your passport confiscated and held indefinitely because a friend called what was actually an extortion of sorts, a "robbery"...until you pay them 11,000 USD to drop the investigation of course.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 17:24     Subject: Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:Now I know why Casey Anthony is free... Just look at the Ryan is innocent!!123 F$&@ you Brazil!! gang...


Literally no one has said he isn't an ass who committed a crime.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2016 17:03     Subject: Re:Lochte Robbery Story: True or False

Anonymous wrote:And Fiegen has to pay $11,000 to a charity to get his passport back...as if the first extortion to cover the damage (and then some I imagine) wasn't enough. Way to go brazil, remind me to never go.


As if you were ever going there, lol