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Another krakkker down! HEYAYA

Also, lol at "unsinkable"

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 83 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The boat maker says the reason the yacht sunk was because it took on water. Amazing deduction skills there.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

Some guy bumped into the "sink boat" button sry

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

Forensic Boat Analysis: Water in areas not designed for water.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The floor here is made out of floor

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

🤯 is he a physicist?

[–] RangeFourHarry@hexbear.net 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s less that this particular billionaire died, but that he, and his lawyers who just got him off on a corruption case also died. Totally unrelated from a car hitting and killing his VP the same weekend.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this isn't even a hit to get revenge on someone they wanted dead. This is a warning to anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I absolutely want to believe this because the timing is fucking wild. But I've been struggling to figure out how a freak storm was engineered to take out the boat. How did that happen?

My understanding is that there's video footage of the storm happening and the boat sinking, so it's obviously not a secret torpedo etc

[–] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Sometimes terrible things happen almost randomly in locations where the scum of the Earth happen to be standing and I couldn't be happier. Usually terrible things happen to neighborhoods of poor people who have shitty infrastructure

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

why couldnt they just torpedo the boat, while theres a storm

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could be boat sabotage? Not so much making the storm happen as knowing they'd likely try and sail in it, and making sure that like, the bilge pump or something wouldn't be up to the task.

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I hadn't heard about his lawyers. Do you have a link?

Oh, nevermind, I hadn't realized they were also on the boat.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

crab-party LOOKS LIKE BILLIONAIRE'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS! hexcrab-party

[–] ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.

Big ups to my homie, God, for specifically targeting this guy.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Rich guy thwarts justice, celebrates on his yacht, then drowns after a tornado hits his boat and it sinks" really does sound like it could be an Old Testament story.

[–] Isopod_Activities@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

he invoked the wrath of poseidon. let that be a lesson for all yacht owners.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 months ago

the great orca summoned his ship to the sea floor courtroom for a preliminary hearing

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

when billionaires get antsy and lack enrichment in their enclosures they have an instinctual urge to have an accident at sea that is tangentially related to the titanic.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Billionaires yearn for Davy Jones' Locker.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago
[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago
[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You guys remember when they stopped looking for those workers that were knocked into the harbor when that boat in Baltimore hit the bridge earlier this year, after like a single day of looking?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Bust out the crustaceans crab-party

[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago
[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How many billionaires are there? Can the ocean kill one per year?

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 months ago

that is definitely not a high enough rate

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Forbes lists 2,781 for 2024, so probably just the cocaine gets more killed per year than sea.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Also a dead billionaire usually makes another billionaire or two instantly from inheritance

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

How about family ~~cocaine~~ sea trips?

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[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago
[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago
[–] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 22 points 10 months ago

'everybody liked that'

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 10 months ago

dozens drown in a capsize right off the Atlantic Coast and they don't even bother to check for survivors... but that's because they're poor

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago
[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

nice, can we do it again

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago
[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago
[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

elmofire more billionaires for poseidon!

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago
[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago
[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago
[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

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