2016 Summer Olympics in Rio-Welcome to Hell.

[Halfcan]

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[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

If anyone wants a taste of what a wretched shithole that city is go poke around on Google Streetview for a while. And I'm sure they didn't even bother going into the worst areas.

I think it's why they started using driverless cars.

[scho63]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

City of God is an amazing movie

That shit was the bomb!

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

I wonder if the Olympic torch will make it to the lighting ceremony without being stolen?

Maybe they should fill the giant stadium torch with citronella to keep the zika mosquitos away.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by BigChiefTablet

Can you imagine getting off the airplane in Rio and seeing that?

It will probably feel just like the Jewish and Black athletes felt going to the games in the summer of 1936 held in Berlin.

Poverty, danger, war looming around every corner, walls built to hide the ghettos.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by kepp

Maybe they should fill the giant stadium torch with citronella to keep the zika mosquitos away.

Between ISIS, violent gangs, sewage water with disease to swim in, corrupt police- I think zika may be the least of the problems there.

[KC_Lee]

And now this....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/body-parts...1016--spt.html

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Parts of a mutilated body washed up on the sands of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, police said, just meters (yards) from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the upcoming Olympics.

The discovery, first reported to a newspaper by a Rio street vendor, is the latest to unnerve the city as it grapples with rising crime, a recession and exhausted state finances at a time when it hoped to be celebrating the first Olympics ever held in South America.

It was unclear Wednesday afternoon what conditions may have led to the mutilated body but a policeman standing guard by a security perimeter confirmed its existence to Reuters.

Police officials did not immediately return calls to their public affairs office for more details Wednesday afternoon.

The Olympics, which start August 5, were intended to show off an economic boom that has since fizzled in Latin America's biggest country. Now the games come as the state of Rio de Janeiro awaits emergency funding of 2.9 billion reais ($892 million) to ensure financing for public services.

The Olympics also will play out with a backdrop of political instability as Brazil's Senate tries suspended President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused of accounting tricks in the government budget, to determine whether she will be ousted for good. The trial is expected to finish after the games.

The state in recent months, even as it races to complete a new subway line and other key pieces of infrastructure promised for the Olympics, has missed crucial debt payments and has been forced to postpone purchasing and salary payments for everyone from public health workers to police.

Rio's acting governor, Francisco Dornelles, earlier this month declared a financial emergency in the state because of budget shortfalls caused by a recession, plummeting oil revenues and a run-up in public expenditures in recent years.

He has fretted publicly that the Olympics could be "a big failure" if financing does not come through but Brazil's federal government has said that it will.

Earlier this week, police and firemen demonstrated at Rio's international airport, protesting their missed wages and greeting arriving passengers with a sign reading "Welcome to Hell."

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by kepp

Maybe they should fill the giant stadium torch with citronella to keep the zika mosquitos away.

Good point. It's the Olympics. These people are world class, so let them protect themselves. Line the top of the stadium with archers and javelin throwers. Use the gymnasts to be sure that the trusses of the stadium don't have bombs. Get the powerlifters and wrestlers to man the ticket gates. There's a reason that these events exist in the first place, and it's to show who the best warriors are.

(By the way, this would be a great movie script. Can the Olympic athletes survive and escape Rio? I'd watch it.)

[alpha_omega]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

And now this....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/body-parts...1016--spt.html

That's pleasant. No way would i be going to these games.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Good point. It's the Olympics. These people are world class, so let them protect themselves. Line the top of the stadium with archers and javelin throwers. Use the gymnasts to be sure that the trusses of the stadium don't have bombs. Get the powerlifters and wrestlers to man the ticket gates. There's a reason that these events exist in the first place, and it's to show who the best warriors are.

(By the way, this would be a great movie script. Can the Olympic athletes survive and escape Rio? I'd watch it.)

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[Why Not?]

So, a few years ago the wife and I decided it would be cool to take the kids to an Olympics, so we stared a "Rio" fund. Late 2014, we ran into some natives of Brazil who said "under no circumstances should you take your children anywhere near that city". So instead, her and I took a nice trip to the Rio in Vegas during May of 2015 instead. Lost a grand at the tables and got bed bugs from the hotel and still feel like we got the much better end of the deal.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

So, a few years ago the wife and I decided it would be cool to take the kids to an Olympics, so we stared a "Rio" fund. Late 2014, we ran into some natives of Brazil who said "under no circumstances should you take your children anywhere near that city". So instead, her and I took a nice trip to the Rio in Vegas during May of 2015 instead. Lost a grand at the tables and got bed bugs from the hotel and still feel like we got the much better end of the deal.

That sounds awful but at least your family members didn't get Zika.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That sounds awful but at least your family members didn't get Zika.

That's what I'm sayin.


Ultimately we were able to eradicate the bed bugs for about $1500. Got off way lucky there, from what I've heard.

[Halfcan]

FORMER Brazil soccer great Rivaldo is telling tourists to stay away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because “you’ll be putting your life at risk”.


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...3ed52a2585d455

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

So, a few years ago the wife and I decided it would be cool to take the kids to an Olympics, so we stared a "Rio" fund. Late 2014, we ran into some natives of Brazil who said "under no circumstances should you take your children anywhere near that city". So instead, her and I took a nice trip to the Rio in Vegas during May of 2015 instead. Lost a grand at the tables and got bed bugs from the hotel and still feel like we got the much better end of the deal.

I stayed at the Rio when it was brand new. Beautiful hotel, shitty service,and we had to walk a mile from our room to the elevators every time we wanted to leave. Terrible layout.

The dealers were not friendly but pulled $500 off the craps table there. Would not go back.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

I stayed at the Rio when it was brand new. Beautiful hotel, shitty service,and we had to walk a mile from our room to the elevators every time we wanted to leave. Terrible layout.

The dealers were not friendly but pulled $500 off the craps table there. Would not go back.

They should have a couple of floors where the room are $10 a night, but they're 40 square feet and never get cleaned. Call them the Favela floors.