Florida Man Faces Charges After Attempting to Cross Atlantic in Human-Sized Hamster Wheel -- Storyful

A Florida man is facing federal criminal charges after being stopped on what he claimed was his attempt to journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the UK in a human-sized hamster wheel, local media reported. The charges follow his interception by the US Coast Guard in late August, when officers spent three days negotiating with Ray “Reza” Baluchi after discovering him on the hamster wheel 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Georgia. According to a court filing, Baluchi claimed to be armed and threatened to cause harm to himself and officers. The Coast Guard said he “displayed two knives and threatened to use a bomb to blow himself up,” according to Fox 35. He later said there was no bomb, the report said.