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1. LoliHat (lolihat@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:43:54 JST LoliHat
   #RIP
   
   "Mr. Democracy Manifest, the Australian man whose 1991 arrest went viral around the world, has died. Jack Karlson was 82"
   
   https://x.com/BNONews/status/1821331105284280422
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   • チャガタイくん@喜多川海夢推し (moto_chagatai@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:51:21 JST チャガタイくん@喜多川海夢推し

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     @LoliHat This is the first I've heard of this guy. I had no idea he was kind of a meme for a while until now, sorry
     What did he even do to get arrested like that?
   • LoliHat (lolihat@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 11:57:37 JST LoliHat

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     • チャガタイくん@喜多川海夢推し
     @Moto_Chagatai
     
     >What did he even do to get arrested like that?
     
     He was wrongly arrested for credit card fraud after being wrongly identified.
     
     https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-11/succulent-chinese-meal-rant-jack-karlson/100798094
     
     At the time he was a former criminal turned writer/actor who had a knack for escape.
     
     "His first escape was in 1966. He was on a train going from Boggo Road Gaol to face a breaking, entering and stealing charge at Maryborough Magistrates Court. He got out of his handcuffs and jumped off.
     
     "Two years later, after he had been locked up in McLeod Prison Farm on Victoria's French Island for another theft, he convinced a local fisherman to give him a lift to the mainland.
     
     "Three months after that, he was picked up in a stolen car carrying safe-breaking tools in Parramatta. Just before his trial, he impersonated a detective and walked out of his court cell. Finally, he was captured in an apartment on Sydney's North Shore."
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