Florida man tried piloting giant floating hamster wheel in the Atlantic

Florida man never fails to impress and entertain, but the most recent story out of the Sunshine State is on another level. The U.S. Coast Guard found Reza Baluchi, a marathon runner, 70 nautical miles off the coast of Georgia last month. While that wouldn’t usually be a problem, he was found in a homemade “Hydro Pod,” a human-sized floating hamster wheel that he claimed would take him all the way to London.

Baluchi was covering his trip on his own YouTube channel, as you can see from the initial live video above. The Coast Guard was not impressed with Baluchi’s “manifestly unsafe” stunt, but he wasn’t ready to go down without a fight, or at least threats of one. He said he would kill himself with a large knife if anyone tried to arrest him, and he lied to officials, telling them he had a bomb on board.