Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel

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Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
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I’m sorry! I thought this was AMERICA!?

Stop arresting him and he becomes Europes problem.

They think they're all coming in boats? WRONG! Hamster wheels, son!

He's never making it to Europe in that.

He should come to the UK and then cross from England to France. That would actually be a reasonable crossing and he'd probably be allowed to do it provided he got prior permission, but the Atlantic, nah.

I think he would make it to Europe. It looks sturdy

It's surely sturdy, but it also looks like a death trap in a storm. But mostly it looks like he never came up with a solution to his drifting-backwards-faster-than-he-can-paddle-forwards problem that plagued his previous attempts. It's got so much sail area and so little control surface that even a little wind will blow him around.

The floating cage holding his body might make it