Yes that’s precisely what happened. The “security guards” took advantage of a petty drunken disorderly situation to shake down the foreigners for some nice coin. $50 US in a poor developing country for a piss-stained wall and a torn ad poster is a pretty hefty profit and a nice nightly haul for those “guards”. I’m…

Cheap ad posters don’t cost $50 US even IN the US, let alone in a poor developing country like Brazil.

$50 US is a pretty high price to pay for tearing down a poster in Brazil, dontcha think? How much do you think that ad poster cost? Hell, the gas station might have gotten it for free as part of some promo. I’m not defending the drunken disorderly actions of the swimmers, especially Lochte, but they were still ripped…

Maybe Deputy Barney Fyfe in Mayberry, but if you think that most cops in a huge American city are going to bother themselves with drunks pissing on a wall behind a gas station and tearing down a poster (the pettiest imaginable form of vandalism) then you’re crazy.

There’s a widespread belief that Asian men in general, and gay Asian men in particular, are asexual? Really? Where? As a gay white dude who lived and worked in Asia for years and traveled extensively there, I can say quite definitively from personal experience that any such idea is utter nonsense.

Crackers with dreads are almost universally insufferable d-bags.

Ah, so you’re a cult member. Got it. You watch this dork’s YouTube videos daily? FFS, GET. A. LIFE.

Then why fucking go and make the stupid propaganda vlogs in the first place? If it was all a stage-managed charade then what was the point? It was a moronic, wasteful exercise, and your defense of this numbskull is either woefully naive or disingenuous.

You must be new; the Gawker sites don’t occupy any moral high ground.

Apparently you missed the stories in recent years of North Korean peasants starving so badly from famine that they were forced to eat grass, and dying in huge numbers. Outside of a Pyongyang and maybe a couple of other spots, especially in rural areas, North Korea might as well be sub-Saharan Africa.

It’s not a serious crime, it’s a fucking misdemeanor. Get a grip.

“Carceral feminism” is so on-point, ima gonna borrow it. Thx!

To the vast majority of Jezebel commenters, there is no possible way that an accused rapist could ever prove his innocence. An accusation equals 100% airtight proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in their worldview.

Gawker Media has editorial standards? Huh, coulda fooled me.

And those miscarriages of justice in rape trials have only ever gone one way, letting guilty rapists go free, right? Right?

If you “believe in that whole guilty until proven innocent thing” then you’ll feel right at home among the feminists at Jezebel!

This is a rhetorical question, right? Jez is writing about this guy ambiguously because:

Oh Lord have mercy, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.

If she was too mentally incapacitated to legally consent to sex, as the prosecution claims, then she’s too mentally incapacitated to use a dating app and find a life partner. Or, conversely, if she’s mentally capable of using dating apps, seeking and finding a romantic dating and life partner, and consenting to enter…

Are you as a taxpayer going to pay for the huge increase in the number of trials that will result from a massive drop in the number of plea deals? Are you going to serve on juries repeatedly, and ask those you know to do so as well? Are you going to be OK with poor minority defendants rotting away in jail before trial…