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Post by rickoshea on Aug 14, 2016 18:20:57 GMT
Ryan Lochte and Three Teammates Robbed at Gunpoint
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/sports/olympics/ryan-lochte-and-three-teammates-robbed-at-gunpoint.htmlRIO DE JANEIRO — Four American swimmers, including the six-time gold medalist Ryan Lochte, were held up at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the United States Olympic Committee.
The other United States swimmers robbed, according to a statement from the committee, were Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen.
“Their taxi was stopped by individuals posing as armed police officers who demanded the athletes’ money and other personal belongings,” a spokesman for the United States Olympic Committee said. “All four athletes are safe and cooperating with authorities.”
Lochte told NBC News that one of the men put a cocked gun to his head.
“We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over,” Lochte said. “They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground — they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn’t do anything wrong, so — I’m not getting down on the ground.
“And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, “Get down,” and I put my hands up, I was like ‘whatever.’ He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cell phone, he left my credentials.”
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Aug 15, 2016 10:50:42 GMT
I'm putting one of my cats up for adoption because she's not getting along with my other cat and she's developing issues because of it.
Well, after talking to the adoption people I can confirm that people do use animals for training pitbulls to fight. Seriously, they get animals for adoption and have them shredded by pitbulls. WHAT> THE FUCK? IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE> NEVER GIVING UP MY GUN YOU SICK FUCKS>
Sorry, that's makes me so angry on so many levels.
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Post by rickoshea on Aug 15, 2016 22:40:44 GMT
Something else disgusting about dogs from the pound that I've witnessed.....
Years back I used to be a member of a hunting club waaay up in the piney woods, about a 100 miles north of here. Our club was just stand & stalk hunting. But the locals that hunted the land around our lease did a lot of dog hunting.
Normally, I didn't have a problem with dog hunting. When I was a wee lad most of my first experiences deer hunting was at organized hunts with about 200 standers & drivers, with several dozen dogs.
But these yahoos would go get dogs from the pound and mix them in with their trained dogs.... I guess with the thinking that the untrained mutts would run and bark with their hounds, and add to the noise & racket while making a deer drive.
The problem was that at the end of the day, those assholes would only go out and retrieve their prized hunting dogs, while leaving the pound dogs out in the woods to fend for themselves. While hunting on our club land, it was fairly common to see half-starved dogs wandering across our plots.
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Post by dannusmaximus on Aug 16, 2016 3:05:32 GMT
I'm putting one of my cats up for adoption because she's not getting along with my other cat and she's developing issues because of it. Well, after talking to the adoption people I can confirm that people do use animals for training pitbulls to fight. Seriously, they get animals for adoption and have them shredded by pitbulls. WHAT> THE FUCK? IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE> NEVER GIVING UP MY GUN YOU SICK FUCKS> Sorry, that's makes me so angry on so many levels. At the risk of stating the obvious, human beings are simply the most horrible creatures that have ever lived on planet earth. As long as you keep that in mind you will never be shocked, never be surprised, and never be taken unaware. |
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Post by LowKey on Aug 16, 2016 8:48:22 GMT
I'm putting one of my cats up for adoption because she's not getting along with my other cat and she's developing issues because of it. Well, after talking to the adoption people I can confirm that people do use animals for training pitbulls to fight. Seriously, they get animals for adoption and have them shredded by pitbulls. WHAT> THE FUCK? IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE> NEVER GIVING UP MY GUN YOU SICK FUCKS> Sorry, that's makes me so angry on so many levels. At the risk of stating the obvious, human beings are simply the most just another among the many horrible brutal creature s that have ever lived on planet earth. As long as you keep that in mind you will never be shocked, never be surprised, and never be taken unaware. FTFY.  Check out other members of the primate family. Or even your pet cat as it toys with/practices hunting on a small animal. Or wolves killing whole herds of elk simply for fun and not for food. Or the hundred of species that will kill and eat others of their won species, or kill and eat their own young or the young of others. Or males bears who will kill cubs simply so the sow will go back into heat. Whole lot of horror on this planet....which is why I think it's best to maintain a way to defend myself and my family. There's brutality in many species, were not the only ones. We're just aware of it. |
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Post by dannusmaximus on Aug 16, 2016 11:22:02 GMT
"There's brutality in many species, were not the only ones. We're just aware of it."
Exactly. Which is why there was absolutely no need to 'fix' my statement.
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Post by NamelessStain on Aug 16, 2016 13:15:20 GMT
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Aug 17, 2016 10:39:28 GMT
I'm putting one of my cats up for adoption because she's not getting along with my other cat and she's developing issues because of it. Well, after talking to the adoption people I can confirm that people do use animals for training pitbulls to fight. Seriously, they get animals for adoption and have them shredded by pitbulls. WHAT> THE FUCK? IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE> NEVER GIVING UP MY GUN YOU SICK FUCKS> Sorry, that's makes me so angry on so many levels. At the risk of stating the obvious, human beings are simply the most horrible creatures that have ever lived on planet earth. As long as you keep that in mind you will never be shocked, never be surprised, and never be taken unaware. Yeah, it's just amazing. I mean you're creating a vicious animal while killing another so that the vicious one can attempt to kill another vicious one. Dood....
Then other people want to watch this, bet on it and be entertained by it. Fucked on so many fucking levels.
You want me to go fascist? Because that how you get me to go fascist.
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Post by as556 on Aug 17, 2016 14:02:03 GMT
That's why we should turn the hood to glass. Morally bankrupt culture. Needs to go.
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Post by rickoshea on Aug 17, 2016 19:37:03 GMT
Teen Facing up to 20 Years in Prison for Brutal Attackwww.fox16.com/news/local-news/teen-facing-up-to-20-years-in-prison-for-brutal-attackBrutal Brass Knuckle KOCONWAY, Ark. -- The lawyer for a teen facing up to 20 years in prison for a brutal attack on an unsuspecting victim is speaking out. Since we first posted the story on Monday, it has been viewed 84,000 times. It's drawn more the 450 comments on Facebook. The overwhelming sentiment is that 16-year old suspect Kane Millsaps should be in jail. Said one poster: "lock him up and throw away the key."
"The video is disturbing," admitted Millsaps' attorney Frank Shaw. "It caused me like everyone else that saw it a good bit of discomfort." The attack happened on May 31st in Conway. Millsaps was arrested the next day. He's charged as an adult with 1st Degree Battery. It's a felony with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
"If he gets the maximum sentence, which I hope he doesn't, he'll get out when he is 36 years old... then what?" Shaw questions. Shaw would not comment on Millsaps' mental health history, but the teen's mother told us Monday he deals with mental issues and recently spent a year and a half at the juvenile detention center for fighting.
"It's my opinion that this is an untreated 16 year old who needs help," Shaw said. Thursday, Shaw filed a motion asking the court for a mental evaluation saying he has "reasonable suspicion" Millsaps is "not fit to proceed forward with criminal proceedings." "The bigger question is why we as Arkansans don't address mental health issues," Shaw said.
Shaw says he hopes this case will cause Arkansans' elected officials to increase funding for treatment. "I think it's a tragedy and it has caused not only my client to be incarcerated because of this but it's also caused a victim to be injured."
Asked about Shaw's statements, prosecutor Cody Hiland issued the below statement.
"He's going to get every opportunity to make his case to a Faulkner County jury. We'll reserve our perspective on the issue until that time." Hiland has promised to prosecute Millsaps to the fullest extent of the law. The 12-year-old victim in the attack suffered bruised right eye, cut on his neck and broken teeth.
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Post by rickoshea on Aug 18, 2016 3:15:18 GMT
Ryan Lochte and Three Teammates Robbed at Gunpoint
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/sports/olympics/ryan-lochte-and-three-teammates-robbed-at-gunpoint.htmlRIO DE JANEIRO — Four American swimmers, including the six-time gold medalist Ryan Lochte, were held up at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the United States Olympic Committee.
The other United States swimmers robbed, according to a statement from the committee, were Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen.
“Their taxi was stopped by individuals posing as armed police officers who demanded the athletes’ money and other personal belongings,” a spokesman for the United States Olympic Committee said. “All four athletes are safe and cooperating with authorities.”
Lochte told NBC News that one of the men put a cocked gun to his head.
“We got pulled over, in the taxi, and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing just a police badge and they pulled us over,” Lochte said. “They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground — they got down on the ground. I refused, I was like we didn’t do anything wrong, so — I’m not getting down on the ground.
“And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, “Get down,” and I put my hands up, I was like ‘whatever.’ He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cell phone, he left my credentials.”
Two U.S. Swimmers Pulled Off Plane in Rio Amid Robbery Probewww.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-rio-summer-olympics/two-u-s-swimmers-pulled-plane-rio-lawyer-n633241Two U.S. Olympic swimmers who say they were with Ryan Lochte when they were robbed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, were removed from a plane at Rio's airport by authorities Wednesday, Lochte's attorney said.
Jeff Ostrow, a lawyer representing Lotche, said swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger were taken off the plane late Wednesday.
"We can confirm that Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were removed from their flight to the United States by Brazilian authorities," U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Patrick Sandusky said. "We are gathering further information."
Ostrow said Conger and Bentz had not been specifically named by a Brazilian judge who had wanted Lochte and fellow U.S. swimmer Jimmy Feigen passports seized, but now they are in limbo.
Feigen is still in Brazil, Ostrow said. Sources at the airport told NBC News Feigen checked in for a flight online but never showed up. His passport would have been confiscated, according to the judge's order.
Brazilian judge Keyla Blanc De Cnop earlier on Wednesday had ordered Lochte and Feigen to remain in Brazil as authorities investigated their account of being robbed at gunpoint in Rio early Sunday by assailants dressed as police officers.
The judge said Lochte and Feigen gave contradictory accounts of the robbery, according to the court's statement.
Lochte told the TODAY Show's Matt Lauer in a telephone interview Wednesday that he returned from Rio Wednesday, and no one told him he should stay in Brazil. Lochte said he told authorities he was reachable and would cooperate.
Lauer said he asked Lochte about skepticism that his story may have been fabricated but the swimmer balked at that suggestion.
"He strongly denied that, said it's absolutely not the case," Lauer said.
"I wouldn't make up a story like this nor would the others — as a matter of fact we all feel it makes us look bad," Lauer said, quoting Lochte. "We're victims in this and we're happy that we're safe."
Multiple sources told NBC Sports that Conger and Bentz were in their seats on the plane when authorities came on shortly before takeoff and removed them.
They were being held at the airport but are being treated courteously, the sources said.
Authorities have indicated they don't want to hold the swimmers long, but do want to know what happened during the early morning robbery, the sources said.*More at link. |
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Post by LowKey on Aug 19, 2016 13:38:38 GMT
Multiple sources told NBC Sports that Conger and Bentz were in their seats on the plane when authorities came on shortly before takeoff and removed them.
They were being held at the airport but are being treated courteously, the sources said.
Authorities have indicated they don't want to hold the swimmers long, but do want to know what happened during the early morning robbery, the sources said.*More at link. So, lets get this straight. You <Brazil> lobby to host the Olympics and succeed. You invite athletes from around the world to come be your guests, and compete. You totally screw the pooch by building problem and defect riddled facilities and housing for the international athletes. You totally fail to ensure safety and security for your guests during their invited stay, to the extent that multiple athletes and their support staff have been robbed, accosted, or stolen from. When some of them have the audacity to report being the victims of an armed robbery, then simply try to go home.....you decide to seize their passports and detain them as if they were the criminals? Why? Because they embarrassed you by not keeping quiet and pretending they hadn't been robbed? Because their report indicated that the robbers identified themselves as police, and this suggestion that you just may have a serious issue with corruption is embarrassing and perhaps insults your sense of honor? What precisely do you think to gain from detaining them? Maybe coerce them into saying their robbers didn't identify as police so you can pretend that there isn't a corruption issue in your country? Fuck. You. I sincerely hope that this blows up in your face and that people worldwide decide en mass to avoid traveling to your country and that your tourism industry dries up and dies. Take the judge that issued the orders to have these victims of crime who were your invited guests drag him out into the streets, find a big tree and a short rope, and make the appropriate apology. Because nothing says, "Welcome, come visit our beautiful country and spend your tourist dollars here", like locking up and intimidating visitors for having the gall to suggest everything isn't smiles and sunlight by reporting being robbed by corrupt cops. |
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Post by rickoshea on Aug 19, 2016 14:13:31 GMT
I have no idea what's going on down in Rio. But they just said on the radio that one of the U.S. swimmers has agreed to give $11,000 to a Brazilian charity....and then, presumably, he'll be allowed to leave the country.
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Post by LowKey on Aug 19, 2016 14:58:07 GMT
I have no idea what's going on down in Rio. But they just said on the radio that one of the U.S. swimmers has agreed to give $11,000 to a Brazilian charity....and then, presumably, he'll be allowed to leave the country. WTF! Am I the only one, or does this scream "extortion"? Bad enough he was robbed by police, but now a judge is pressuring him into an $11k payoff so he can leave? |
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Post by Browning35 on Aug 20, 2016 14:09:53 GMT
Wow, Brazilians don't fuck around.
When they're corrupt they're REALLY corrupt. Second to none.
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