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[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 187 points 1 year ago

I saw the headline and wondered if this was a repost. Nope. If I had a nickel for every time this guy has been arrested for ocean hamster wheel shenanigans, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Also, this is the third time he's tried.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think he actually expects to get very far in any of his tries. The attention from his eventual arrest and following news articles are his actual goals. Kinda like that flat earth rocket guy. And they'll both probably end the same way, dead by hubris.

[-] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago

This guy has a long history of doing things to completion. Ran the perimeter of USA, ran from LA to NYC after 9/11. Big cycling stuff. He is an actual world class athlete. I think he really wants to do this but lacks the finances and connections to have the support needed for such an expedition.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that info, it's certainly new to me. The only times I've heard of him were for his last attempts at this same stunt.

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[-] mayo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm fairly certain there is a documentary or at least a youtube video about this guy because he's not really what you think. Still nuts.

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Found it, it's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6_LjiIzXk

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[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 35 points 1 year ago

I think you're in luck, the article says he's tried 3 similar voyages before, so if it's his fourth your nickel fortune is going to double!

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Why was he arreated? is it agains the law to walk over water in florida?

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably for operating an unregistered watercraft or not having a transponder. The kind of things maritime law requires for stuff like not getting shot be some idiot, not being IDed as a naval mine by the Navy, search & rescue, not hitting other ships, customs and border enforcement, etc, compelling border compliance, etc. There's a surprising amount of rules for doing stuff in the ocean.

Edit: apparently the vessel isn't technically seaworthy, there was a hurricane evacuation notice in the area, and he also threatened to kill himself and claimed to have a bomb. All of these things are usually guaranteed to piss off the government to varying degrees.

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It does male sense! I'm not very familiar with maritime laws but it seems fair. thanks!! :)

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[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Biden has truly turned this country into a communist dictatorship, even people trying to escape by homemade boats get scooped up by the coast guard and brought back. We’re living in 1984 and animal farm put together.

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[-] drislands@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

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.

Oh so he's not a cool weirdo, he's a terrible weirdo. Damn.

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, that sounds kinda like a desperate persons attempts to keep other people off his "boat".

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Have you kept up on Florida lately? Doesn't sound too insane to me.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 year ago

Damn, people really are desperate to get away from DeSantis.

[-] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

I don’t even live in Florida and I’m desperate to get away from DeSantis.

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 74 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry! I thought this was AMERICA!?

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Imagine being so fed up with living in Florida that the only way you can think to leave is by a giant hamster wheel

[-] ashgillman@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 year ago

The guy made it 110km?! I mean, I'm still pretty impressed

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

He's trying to "raise money for the Coast Guard."

So does he just hand the check directly to the Guardsman in the Coast Guard vessel when they're forced to drag his yoga ball wheel out of the ocean for a 4th time?

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, do they even take donations?

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[-] Taalen@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Anything to get out of Florida

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Florida man attempting to upgrade to Englishman

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Instead of raising money for the coast guard he could just... not waste their time needing rescued.

[-] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 13 points 1 year ago

I'm not an expert in maritime law, or any law for that matter, but why they had to help him?

If he wanted to be in danger he succeeded, provided he doesn't request the coastal guard for assistance he is not hurting anything but himself. Is It because his hamster wheel might have been a hazard to other boats?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Article 98 UNCLOS, "Duty to render assistance":

  1. Every State shall require the master of a ship flying its flag, in so far as he can do so without serious danger to the ship, the crew or the passengers:

a. to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost;
b. to proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress, if informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such action may reasonably be expected of him;
c. after a collision, to render assistance to the other ship, its crew and its passengers and, where possible, to inform the other ship of the name of his own ship, its port of registry and the nearest port at which it will call.

  1. Every coastal State shall promote the establishment, operation and maintenance of an adequate and effective search and rescue service regarding safety on and over the sea and, where circumstances so require, by way of mutual regional arrangements cooperate with neighbouring States for this purpose.
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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

"Based on the condition of the vessel - which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys - [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," the criminal complaint says.

On 1 September, he eventually surrendered and abandoned his vessel after being brought to a Coast Guard base in Miami.

In 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.

According to previous interviews, Mr Baluchi said he was attempting the voyages to raise money for a variety of causes, including for the homeless and the Coast Guard.


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[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 12 points 1 year ago

he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point

How do we know education is failing in Florida?

New York is north of Florida, not south.

[-] ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Right. And since he was heading north but drifting south the effort failed. Were you schooled in Florida?

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

At this point, the guy should have already gathered some support to help him make the cross.

Crazier things have been done.

[-] oldbean@dmv.social 9 points 1 year ago

He has a Wikipedia page. Reza Baluchi

[-] Armen12@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Lets him do what he wants with his life, stop being Nazis just arresting people for no reason

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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

What would florida man's super power be?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This is what this country has come to under Biden. People are reduced to using crazy contraptions to try to escape to Cuba because inflation is so out of control here, they would rather roll the dice. It’s a sad reality we’re living through.

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