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Related: About this forumFlorida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
A Florida man was arrested after trying to "run to London" across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade vessel resembling a hamster wheel.
The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.
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Mr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.
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Officials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66733230
The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.
...
Mr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.
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Officials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66733230
"Manifestly unsafe":
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Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2023
OP
In fact, it first comes into "Life, the Universe and Everything", book 3
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2023
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Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)1. Looks okay to me
What's the problem?
lapfog_1
(30,517 posts)8. The trick to flying is to throw yourself at the ground
and miss.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)9. That's brilliant
I haven’t tried that yet.
lapfog_1
(30,517 posts)11. wish I could claim credit
but this is from Douglas Adams...
and the Hitchhiker's trilogy, err, somehow more than trilogy.
So Long and thanks for all the Fish.
Turbineguy
(38,753 posts)13. The fourth book in the trilogy.
muriel_volestrangler
(103,012 posts)14. In fact, it first comes into "Life, the Universe and Everything", book 3
Arthur successfully flies to the Flying Party, but they don't get the Silver Bail.
GreenWave
(10,184 posts)2. Not quite the ZPM of Stargate but getting closer?
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mVpNPk2EH9c/maxresdefault.jpg)
Deuxcents
(20,923 posts)3. Let him at it..see how long he lasts.
Don’t have a sarcasm button but..it’s his fourth try to get away so either let him try or get him some help.
bucolic_frolic
(48,610 posts)4. May I suggest an unmanned hamster wheel next time
RandySF
(71,919 posts)5. It was Trump trying to flee the country.
Eugene
(63,166 posts)6. Him again?!?!
A psychiatric intervention is in order once the Coast Guard is done with him.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)10. I like the way he gets more ambitious each time
He should really think about doing the Pacific.
Emile
(32,409 posts)7. Definitely weird that he would even attempt this.
yonder
(10,035 posts)12. A few bobbers short of a tackle box looks like to me.