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Ryan Lochte 'robbery' was actually what happened when he and fellow swimmers DESTROYED a gas [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 18, 2016 | Ruth Styles, Matt Roper, Ben Ashford, and Chris Spargo

Posted on 08/18/2016 7:34:18 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: jsanders2001

“A gas station has an armed security guard?”


35 years ago I went there for my honeymoon. Our tour guide (a 30 year old woman) and full time driver (huge black guy) both carried. I’m not rich; Rio was cheap back then.

There was a sawed off 12 ga under the back seat that kept coming out whenever he hit the brakes, which was what got the conversation started. Friggin thing had one in the pipe with the safety OFF.

I quietly flicked it ON.


41 posted on 08/18/2016 8:08:47 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: C19fan

Just saw BBC News add that the guys damaged the restroom door “due to an altercation”.


42 posted on 08/18/2016 8:09:12 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: Timpanagos1

Is whatever they (presumably) did worth months/years in a prison in Brazil?


43 posted on 08/18/2016 8:11:00 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: 2banana

This could still all be a shake down. Being robbed of all your cash is very common in Rio. I had three fellow members of a team I was on get robbed at knife point. They took all their cash and gave them back their wallets.


44 posted on 08/18/2016 8:13:15 AM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

SMH until it is about to come off of my red neck.

Rio may be a trashy place. There is still no excuse for Americans to trash it any worse. Even if soused to the gills. And why are would-be famous athletes getting rip roaring drunk, not just a nip with dinner?

SNH, SMH, SMH


45 posted on 08/18/2016 8:13:34 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: bgill

“File a complaint with the OC and the OC can demand the coach pay $200 to install a new toilet.”

Maybe, for some reason the “OC” is not the judicial authority in Brazil.


46 posted on 08/18/2016 8:14:35 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: CondorFlight

Could be worse. Could be Singapore.


47 posted on 08/18/2016 8:15:12 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

Say what you will about Singapore... hardly anybody dares to trash it. At least not twice. “You trash us, we thrash you.”


48 posted on 08/18/2016 8:16:14 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: bk1000

Winner!!!!


49 posted on 08/18/2016 8:16:55 AM PDT by alarm rider (Basically, we are toast.)
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To: CondorFlight

“Is whatever they (presumably) did worth months/years in a prison in Brazil?”

That question will be answered by a Brazilian court.


50 posted on 08/18/2016 8:18:06 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Tenacious 1

I think you have it.


51 posted on 08/18/2016 8:18:10 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: C19fan

Time to wait for the facts. The same as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, etc., I be slow to place blame at this point on anyone. Let the facts come out.


52 posted on 08/18/2016 8:19:19 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: C19fan

So it took the Brazilian scum days to come up with this story? I don’t buy it.


53 posted on 08/18/2016 8:19:54 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: C19fan

I hate to sound like a sterotype on this, but as long as I’ve known swimmers, it comes down to them usually being these upper class snobs, who tend to lie.

I played football and baseball in HS. I had friends on the swim team, but they were their own little click of guys. They were pompous @sshats.

Now you have what appears to be a bold face lie told to the media. Didn’t we have the same thing with Mr. Olympian himself, smoking marijuana?

I think the Brazilian are not going to let the media give them a black eye, just because a couple young puck Americans are not telling the truth.


54 posted on 08/18/2016 8:21:10 AM PDT by nikos1121 (There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.---Frederick Delius)
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To: Tenacious 1

I remember a gas station in Capira, Panama that had a sign pointing to toilet. When you followed the path out back, the back wall was concrete blocks partially covered by tile about waist high. LOL.


55 posted on 08/18/2016 8:22:25 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: xzins

Might be 1 part altercation 9 parts people losing their heads.


56 posted on 08/18/2016 8:22:26 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Timpanagos1

“File a complaint with the OC and the OC can demand the coach pay $200 to install a new toilet.”

Otherwise it could cost a shitload more.


57 posted on 08/18/2016 8:22:50 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: Ramius
"I don’t know if I would file a police report in some countries, either."

I've been in third world countries where the police weren't even paid a salary, but lived of of the fines they collected from "law breakers." In addition to that, these cops had to purchase this police job from the Province or District Chief and he got a cut of every fine they collected. To protect yourselves from this, an American had to go to the Province or District Chief and purchase a "Get out of Jail Free Card," and the cops would then leave you alone. This system of "law enforcement" is known as "Bakish"(SP)in some countries.

58 posted on 08/18/2016 8:23:03 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor

Well when crime control meets capitalism the effects can be weird....


59 posted on 08/18/2016 8:25:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Of course not but it would be less costly and take less man hours on Brazil’s part.


60 posted on 08/18/2016 8:25:21 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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