Ed Olympic swimmers may have lied about being robbed

Checkmite said:
I don't know about the rest of them; but I remember Lochte telling the press his wallet was taken, and as he goes through that checkpoint he very obviously has nothing but a phone and his ID badge in his hands.
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Lochte doesn't have his wallet with him at the X-ray and the robbery story is a hoax created by the guys. :D
 
Ranb said:
Don't know about the rest of you, but if I was ever robbed at gun point in the Philippines, Thailand, Germany, Australia or any other country I was visiting, I'd be headed home immediately if i thought the police were more interested in questioning my story instead of finding the perps.

So the videos show they have items at airport security, big deal. Doesn't mean those were the items reported stolen.

Ranb
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You're just stabbing in the dark because you didn't read, right? The video is not from the airport.
 
Wouldn't be the first time these things have happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_Bastareaud#2009_New_Zealand_tour

Bastareaud was included in the French tour to New Zealand and Australia in June 2009, but returned to France early after sustaining facial injuries. He initially claimed that he had been assaulted from behind by "four or five men" outside his Wellington hotel as he was returning from a night out. The New Zealand Police launched an investigation into the assault and turned up security camera footage of Bastareaud returning uninjured to his hotel with four other people at 5:22 am that night, confirming the assault could not have taken place. Bastareaud subsequently stated that he had been drunk and had sustained the injuries after tripping over a table in his hotel room, and that he had concocted the original story in order to avoid getting in trouble with team management
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Let's see.....

Claims of a bunch of meat head athletes? As much as I want to get even with the guys at the jock table, I fail to see any motive. Their games participation was over. They weren't on curfew. They weren't picked up by the police and charged with anything they were alibi-ing for. Maybe they stepped out of the club for a little tryst or some hooker action on the way home, were supposed to meet up with their athlete-girlfriends and were in trouble on the homefront, so invented the story? Seems a little convoluted, but drunk kids will be drunk kids. "Oh, we were attacked by a bear." How often have we all used that excuse?

Never mind whether they still have their wallets.... no stick-up artists let three guys walk away with their watches and mobile phones. If the video is accurate, then something's wrong with their story.

Versus

Counter claims of The Daily Mail, known for their journalistic integrity, supported by claims of the Rio police, who got a judge to issue an order,... based on, as in most countries, the police asking them to do so. I wouldn't put any store in the gas station video or manager. "We got a cab at the gas station" doesn't mean they were inside the station, necessarily.


Conspiracy theory:

Still.... the watches and mobile phones???? The only answer to this is that they were not robbers masquerading as cops. They were cops. They stop taxis and civilians all the time. They want only all your cash. Nothing trace-able. Then they go back to the club they were hanging out in.
 
Cleon said:
My suspicion:

They went looking for drugs and/or prostitutes, the deal went bad for one reason or another, and they're using this to "explain" their absence/missing stuff/bruises/whatevs.
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If they were looking for ladies they should have been hanging out with the basketball team, who apparently knew where to find them ... :cool:
 
Foolmewunz said:
As much as I want to get even with the guys at the jock table, I fail to see any motive.
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You could wrack your brain trying to figure out a motive and completely forget that they apparently lied to the police.

They told the police that after they were robbed they arrived back at the Olympic Village at 4am. But the video shows them actually arriving at 7am. It is dark night at 4am and it is daylight at 7am. Besides that they are wearing watches and phones that show the time.

That's just one bold inconsistency and there are others. These inconsistencies are looking like lies. A hoax that didn't work out as planned.

Police have a warrant for the cellphones because they want to try to track their movements.
 
If they were ripped off by hookers, wouldn't they just cover it up and not talk about it? Reporting it seems like the last thing to do.
 
William Parcher said:
Prepare yourself for this being a big lie with no police corruption or armed robbery at a taxi.
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Give me a logical motive (hint Olympic athletes looking for drugs, unless you are talking about snowboarders looking for pot, is not logical) and I'll consider it.

In the meantime, having spent time in Central and South America, I know that police corruption is the norm, not the exception.
 
Foolmewunz said:
...Still.... the watches and mobile phones???? The only answer to this is that they were not robbers masquerading as cops. They were cops. They stop taxis and civilians all the time. They want only all your cash. Nothing trace-able. Then they go back to the club they were hanging out in.
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There you go. Foolmewunz is all too familiar with life in non-Western countries, as am I. Obviously some of the rest of you folks in the thread aren't.

The big mystery here is, why is the judge involved?
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
Give me a logical motive (hint Olympic athletes looking for drugs, unless you are talking about snowboarders looking for pot, is not logical) and I'll consider it.

In the meantime, having spent time in Central and South America, I know that police corruption is the norm, not the exception.
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I'll speculate on motive when you first tell me exactly where they were and what they were doing.

Your comment on police corruption becomes meaningless when the victims are telling lies.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
There you go. Foolmewunz is all too familiar with life in non-Western countries, as am I. Obviously some of the rest of you folks in the thread aren't.

The big mystery here is, why is the judge involved?
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Warrants to seize their passports
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Give me a logical motive (hint Olympic athletes looking for drugs, unless you are talking about snowboarders looking for pot, is not logical) and I'll consider it.

In the meantime, having spent time in Central and South America, I know that police corruption is the norm, not the exception.
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They obviously done something naughty enough for the judge to give them a warrant
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
There you go. Foolmewunz is all too familiar with life in non-Western countries, as am I. Obviously some of the rest of you folks in the thread aren't.
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Are you familiar with crime victims who tell strings of lies to the police when they talk about what happened to them?

The big mystery here is, why is the judge involved?
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Search warrants and passport seizures. Mystery solved.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
There you go. Foolmewunz is all too familiar with life in non-Western countries, as am I. Obviously some of the rest of you folks in the thread aren't.
The big mystery here is, why is the judge involved?
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That's a bit of an ad hom. The fact that people are questioning their stories doesn't mean that they are naive. People can think that they might be lying AND that the law enforcement might be corrupt. They aren't mutually exclusive.
 
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