Just how bad is the crime in Rio de Janeiro? Apparently awful
enough that a live news segment on the lack of police
enforcement and the growing crime rate gets interrupted by, yep,
you guessed it, an actual crime.  Reporter Eduardo Tchao was
doing a “man on the street” focusing on the high crime rate in
Rio de Janeiro’s Presidente Vargas neighborhood when he
interviewed the would-be crime victim. In her interview, the
woman notes that the area isn’t safe and that she probably
shouldn’t be wearing her necklace because it would only
encourage petty thieves. Sure enough, almost as if it were
staged, a young mugger tries to yank it from her neck. He
failed, but he also got away.  Our own Pedro Andrade, who’s from
Rio, tells us that this specific story, which started off as a
local news broadcast, has made national news in Brazil.  [H/T
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