Posted on 08/05/2016 5:55:03 PM PDT by PROCON
Full Title: Chinese Olympic basketball team caught in the middle of gunfight between armed gangsters and police as they arrive in Rio de Janeiro
Chinese athletes found themselves in the middle of a shootout between armed gangsters and police officers after arriving in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics.
A group of basketball players and journalists were being bused to the Olympic Village from Tom Jobin International Airport when the gunfight occurred.
The firefight erupted across two highways in the north of the city as the coach was travelling through, catching the Chinese delegation in the middle.
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Right, second place is the first loser.
You guys saw it? :)
The interpreter scene lol.
The girl with the snakebite :)
Esposito: From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!
Fielding Mellish: What’s the Spanish word for straitjacket? :)
At least these games will be memorable.
Well, the silver and bronze medals can always be awarded posthumously.
lol.
Started with an attack on the American Embassy...40 years later and woody was right about that, it’s a tradition as old as the hills.
They need another show called “Rio Olympics Police Blotter”
... as opposed to a gunfight between unarmed gangsters.
Brazilian basketball!
What nation would want to take their athletes to that hell hole!
I was in the Denver airport (Stapleton) once and someone paged Fielding Melish. I think I was the only person in the airport to get the joke.
LOL!!!!
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