I'm starting to re-think Rio and the Olympics

[Dude!]

i was against Chicago
because horrible people live there
and the crime is out of control

but maybe it's not as bad as Rio
after all

did the Olympic Committee make a mistake?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17300925.htm

shooting down helicopters
is a whole different level of crime
from beating a kid to death

[IMSlacker]

Too late. It's all your fault too. You should be forced to attend, and only get tickets to the really bad events, like steeplechase.

[dino_electropolis]

nah....Rio will be all cleaned up like 4 months prior to Opening Ceremonies.

They did it with Athens in 2004. In a few months, our Feds came in and shut down Greece's notorious terrorist group, "November 17th", which had been eluding capture for years and years. Rio will be like disney, if only for a few weeks.


Btw- i attended a beach volleyball game in '04 and had one of the best times of my trip. Huge party atmosphere, and the brazillian fans were out of control in the best sense of the prase.

In 2016, an orgy is liable to break out in the stands.

Seriously.

[K.C.]

They'll make a Wire-like deal where they herd all the crime syndicates into a certain area in Rio and tell them they can basically rape, pillage, and kill as long as it's in that area, without consequences as long as they stay away from anything involving the Olympics.

[IMSlacker]

Brazil's infrastructure is so wonderful that 60 million people lost power because of a rain storm (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvYTfvBdDutkp67sdM0KKETo0JpQD9BTLGU00).
Congratulations, Dude!

[Snoogans]

Too late. It's all your fault too. You should be forced to attend, and only get tickets to the really bad events, like steeplechase.

steeple chase fuckin rules. Where else can you see some dummy fall into a water pit and then get spiked by 7 others

[JPMNICK]

Brazil's infrastructure is so wonderful that 60 million people lost power because of a rain storm (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvYTfvBdDutkp67sdM0KKETo0JpQD9BTLGU00).
Congratulations, Dude!

the tech nerd sites have speculated it was hackers, and the governments are trying to cover it up not to freak anyone out

[beachbum]

There was a piece on 60 Minutes Sunday night about cyber terror and how many times our own systems have been hacked or probed.They cited 2 or 3 instances where the Brazilian power grid had been hacked causing wide spread black outs that lasted for days.