'Welcome to Hell;' Mutilated Body Washes Up on Rio Volleyball Beach

It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Rio de Janeiro. This will be the first Olympics ever held in South America, and it was to be a grand celebration of Brazilian progress, economic and otherwise.

Well, that all went to crap. The economy went to all to hell, the government’s out of money, crime is up, the country is a hotbed for a dangerous mosquito virus, the president is “suspended” — yeah, you can suspend the president in Brazil, an idea that might have legs in North America — and, oh yeah, a mutilated body just washed up on the beach volleyball court, Reuters reported.

“Welcome to Hell,” read a sign at the airport, held by a police officer. 

"Parts of a mutilated body have washed up on the sands of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro just meters from where beach volleyball athletes will compete in the upcoming Olympics. "

The cops don’t know much more about it than that, but then again the cops aren’t getting paid these days because the state literally doesn’t have the money.

"The state in recent months, even as it races to complete a new subway line and other key pieces of infrastructure promised for the Olympics, has missed crucial debt payments and has been forced to postpone purchasing and salary payments for everyone from public health workers to police."

This is because, according to Reuters, the government spent too much money, and then the price of oil dropped, a financial disaster that has never ever ever happened before and could not possibly have been foreseen or hedged against.

The Rio Olympics are not working out. Cancel them.