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

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The issue was that he threatened to detonate a bomb if the coast guard got close. He also said he had knives and would kill himself.

The reason this escalated is they were harassing him. They detained him for days, looking for a problem that wasn't there.

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