Rio officials lose keys to Olympic Stadium

[ehrnst]

According to media reports, Rio officials lost the keys to Olympic Stadium yesterday. This left organizers unable to access the mixed area of the venue.

No big deal, right?

Desperate times calls for desperate measures as workers had to come in and use bolt cutters to get into the stadium. In a city with more than six million people, a locksmith was apparently difficult to find.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rio-officials-lose-keys-to-olympic-stadium-080908840.html

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I swore I was going to see a link to The Onion when I opened this up.

Honestly. I actually laughed at the headline like I would from something from The Onion.

[Chasstev365]

2. This good news is:

The gas lanterns should be ready to light the stadium by this evening.

[LuvLoogie]

9. The body sweepers are ready in the bay.

[kairos12]

3. Maybe they were on the Olympic Key Rings. Check the flag.

[liberal N proud]

4. Not the Onion?

They are getting off to a great start.

[underpants]

5. I thought YOU had the key

[Adrahil]

6. Those idiots will be very lucky...

... if some major incident or accident doesn't happen.

[jcgoldie]

7. Inspires a great deal of confidence

I probably should not even think it but jeez I hope there is noone targeting these games to make any sort of terror statement it will be a disaster.

[DFW]

8. "Lost" the keys?

Being Rio, it's just as likely that someone decided that the price demanded for their return was too high.