Friday, October 24, 2014

Synchronized swimming with assault riffles at the Rio De Janeiro Olympic Village?


At least that is what I thought it was when I saw the photo above. (Now, this post is for real, it is not a satire piece.) Looks like armed thugs decided to go swimming at the Rio Olympic Village pool. What were they thinking? "Hey sport, let's go grab our military grade assault weapons and celebrate our "...victory in a turf war over the rival Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, ... to commemorate [our] new zone of influence." Believe it or not that is what they were thinking.
From FOX News Latino
“I loved the pool, man. What a complex, it's all ours," purported drug trafficker Celso Pinheiro Pimenta, AKA Playboy, said on a recording obtained by Folha de Sao Paulo..." 
After splashing around and posing for some group photos, some of the gang members went to social media to post their shots, which were quickly picked up by local law enforcement. An advisor from the Municipal Secretariat of Sport told local media that the sports complex had indeed been broken into and that the police have been asked to increase security. ..." 
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