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A 27-year-old man was arrested in Maracaju, a city in Mato Grosso do Sul on Sunday (26), after trying to put out the Olympic torch with a bucket of water. According to the delegate Amylcar Eduardo Romero, the incident occurred around 11:25 am (on local time). "The principle would be a joke promoted by the suspect and his friends, and who had been released by Facebook," said the officer. The police found no political motivation for the act, only intention of public disorder. "He played a great amount of water in the athlete who was carrying the torch. As he was far away, he failed to erase the flame, "Romero said. The delegate explained that the young man was apprehended in the act and will respond in freedom. He paid BRL 1,000 bail. The case was registered as qualified damage to society. The penalty for this crime is six months to three years.

After flooding streets and buildings in Ribeirão Pires and be temporarily embargoed by the city, the transposition's project of water of dam Billings for the Alto Tietê system turned a risky point of leisure and adventure sports for the residents of the country of São Paulo. The work was done by Sabesp (Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo) and inaugurated in September 2015 by Governor Geraldo Alckmin to prevent the crisis in water supply in the metropolitan area. Since December 2015, when the transposition reached 100% of transfer capacity, children and even adults have taken advantage of the strength of 4,000 liters of water pumped per second to swim and practice mode "cross buoy" in which the person goes down the river on a buoy without protective equipment. The fun takes place on weekends on hot days in the channel built by the Department of Water and Power. "After much trouble, the project has now become the major attraction of young p...