I just don't get the whole "robbery" story. They allegedly paid the gas station guy $20 US plus about $30 equiv in Brazillion currency. That's nothing, so why say you were robbed?
Worse... On Sunday, they met with USOC, State Dept, and I assume their coaches. They settled on a plan to keep it very low key and the USOC would release a statement.
Then the genius Lochte goes to the beach and runs into Billy Bush of NBC. Bush films the interview on his iphone. That's where Lochte says how he had a gun to his forehead, the guy "cocked it" and he was all "whatever bro, I'm not getting on the ground, we didn't do anything wrong". (Paraphrase of the halfwit's statement)
You just agreed to say nothing and now you tell the world a tale so shocking everyone will look into it.
The statement itself is so ludicrous. It's out of a video game world. I can only suppose he thought it would make him look good. Which just shows an amazing lack of understanding of cops, Brazil/Rio, the media, the world. I mean he accused the cops essentially of robbing him. He didn't think they'd look into it?? Unbelievable.
Had they just said nothing probably not much would've happened. Maybe the story would come out of the gas station. Then they just apologize, say how stupid they were and pay some money.
I almost blame Billy Bush of Nbc for not alerting somone else instead of going public right away. The story is so outrageous, maybe call up someone first before you air this? I guess the mom story though gave credibility to it.
His name is going to become a verb/adverb/adjective.
"Dude, don't Lochte me with that bs story!"
A really stupid idea:
"That's a real Lochte plan you've cooked up."
