Posted on 09/06/2023 9:10:30 AM PDT by packagingguy
A Florida man is facing federal criminal charges after he attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to England in a human-sized hamster wheel contraption, officials said.
Ray "Reza" Baluchi was charged with obstruction of a boarding and violation of a captain of the port order, according to a criminal complaint.
On Aug. 26, US Coast Guard officers stopped Baluchi after spotting him on his homemade vessel approximately 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Georgia. It was then that he told officials he was headed to London, court documents said.
Officers deemed his hamster wheel – which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys – was unsafe for the voyage and ordered him to get into their boat.
Authorities said Baluchi said he was armed with a 12-inch knife and would attempt to kill himself if officers tried to remove him from the wheel.
For days, Coast Guard officers tried to get Baluchi into their boat. At one point, officials said he displayed two knives and threatened to use a bomb to blow himself up, along with the wheel.
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Well, the guy in the Meineke commercial drove his car from Germany to America. But he did have some water damage.
“We are not doing that with transexuals. What is the difference?”
We should be. But they’re currently in some kind of protected class where their value as pawns in The Revolution is greater than their individual lives.
They, and their supporters, don’t realize they are just pawns and they will be stomped on if the revolution succeeds.
No, we're not. In today's culture they're called "homeless."
I hated writing up vessel boarding reports. Forgot about the 200 mile limit. Technically he is fair game upto any other countries claim of authority. The vessel is stateless.
Reminds me of the time I almost swam from N.Y. to London.
I got within 200 to 300 yards of there but I was so exhausted that I knew I’d never make it, so I turned around and swam back to N.Y. in utter defeat.
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