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Coast Guard arrests man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

by CameronNemo on 9/8/23, 6:30 PM with 2 comments

• by elmerfud on 9/8/23, 6:51 PM

  Just leave this guy to do his thing. I get the idea of stopping someone who is doing something unsafe in a manner that can harm other people. Really this guy isn't going to harm anyone else if he fails. Just leave people to do their things.

• by CameronNemo on 9/8/23, 6:33 PM

  [In 2014] The Captain of the Port of Miami ordered Baluchi not to attempt to travel to Bermuda in his bubble. Baluchi tried again in 2016. [...]

  And they sank his bubble as a hazard to navigation. "They shot, they sink my bubble," Baluchi told VICE. "No more bubble I have."