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[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is generally agreed that Holt's disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning, but a number of conspiracy theories surfaced, most famously the suggestion that he was a spy for China and had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

Wikipedia never gets old

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

Critical support for Chinese submarine collecting Australian PM's, but they need to do it more to be counted as proper collection hobby.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Chinese Spy submarine.

[–] Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Trust me, it's a lot better in the spanish side of wikipedia... you see way less anti china rhetoric

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Chironex fleckeri, commonly known as the Australian box jelly, and nicknamed the sea wasp, is a species of extremely venomous box jellyfish found in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea to Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

d'you know, it makes sense why my filipino coworker had never been in the sea...

[–] mslarryhotdogs@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Hey, that is not true that we didn't give a shit. We named a pool after him.

[–] shath@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago
[–] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Didn't they also name a pool after him

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Emus got him.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

He's at my place. Just wanted to smash some cones in the shed but got lost in the smoko.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Dropbear got em

Well it's Australia so he probably got eaten by a giant spider.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I don't remember if it was him, I don't remember if it was that event, and I don't even remember if it was irrevocably proven or just theorized,

but the CIA got him.

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Probably got disappeared

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Turned into a merman by the moon on mako island