Originally Posted by billyb

WOW!, it's a great place if you get rid of the people down there. I can say this because my fiancee is from Brazil. Rio is a very fucked up city, it's cool to be there for a while but it is very dangerous. They don't have proper infrastructure anywhere down there.

If you have never been there you better not walk the streets alone at night. If they get rid of all of their favelas and the criminals then that place would be heaven. Good luck in doing all of that.

Originally Posted by Mutt

my family doctor, nice old guy and his wife who was dying with cancer, went to Rio, of course they got mugged and beaten.

congrats to them, wasting a billion dollars on the Olympics when most of their citizens live in squalor is a big step forward.

olympics are so overrated now - Sydney and Athens i'm sure wish they never had them.

Originally Posted by billyb

Mutt my friend just two weeks ago got robbed in his hotel. Three young thugs came into his hotel and put the hotel staff in a locked room and took everbodies money at gun point.
This happens all of the time down there.

If you have been there you would know that for starters they don't even have enough hotel rooms to accomadate all of the people there. Unless they are going to build a lot of new ones?, once they olympics are over then the hotels will be empty.

I wish them all of the best, but I think it will be a mess!.