Tall, tan, young, thugly - boy from Ipanema uses handbag to mug Nine cameraman

By Broede Carmody
Updated July 28 2016 - 5:39am, first published July 27 2016 - 2:14pm
A Brazilian mugger, possibly posing as a woman, used a brick in a handbag to try and relieve a recently arrived member of the Channel Nine TV crew of his equipment Photo: Louise Kennerley
A Brazilian mugger, possibly posing as a woman, used a brick in a handbag to try and relieve a recently arrived member of the Channel Nine TV crew of his equipment Photo: Louise Kennerley

It appears the state of the Olympic Village is not the only thing Australians need to worry about when it comes to the 2016 Olympics, after a man possibly posing as a woman tried to mug a Channel Nine cameraman soon after he landed in Rio.

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