Others are scattered around doing their own thing: picking fights in bars, beating up gay men.
He won the gold on the uneven bars, beating the United States' Nastia Liukin in a tiebreaker.
In a country where a spell in jail is often a badge of pride, he can also point to 18 months behind bars (beating Mr Rajapaksa's stint of three months).
Teenager Wilson, form Leeds, collected his second gold of the Games, and his fourth medal in total, with victory in the horizontal bars, beating team-mate Kristian Thomas into second place.
He aimed, he fired high, he beat the goalkeeper... and the bar beat him.
"The place erupted, security came in to break up the situation and the people in the bar beat up the security," the frontman remembers.
At one point in "The Problem of Evil," for instance, Costello suddenly remembers her first encounter with pure evil, when a man who picked her up at a bar beat her with childish, malicious glee, breaking her jaw.
Both times the bar beat the agency back.
The place was the same as I remembered it: worn-wood bar, beat-up pinball machine, unmentionable bathrooms.
The producer trades in the tiki bar beats for sultry rhythms wrought with an unexpected existentialism, trimming away the production fat and leaving the barest vocal work and only hints of melody.
