it looks cool, but it's absolutely not seaworthy. it'd be a fun thing to ride around in a lake, but they're correct in keeping it out of the ocean. cw suicide it sounds like he has an undiagnosed...
"We referred to it as the hamster wheel of doom," Coggeshall remembered, adding that temperatures could get up to 120 degrees inside the bubble, and that Baluchi was more likely to get pushed to England or swept into a swirling eddy in the middle of the Atlantic than make it from Florida to Bermuda.
it looks cool, but it's absolutely not seaworthy. it'd be a fun thing to ride around in a lake, but they're correct in keeping it out of the ocean.
cw suicide
The officers then approached Baluchi in a small boat, and instructed him to join them – they were ending his voyage due to it being unsafe. Baluchi replied that he had a 12-inch knife and would attempt to kill himself if the officers attempted to remove him from his vessel, according to the complaint. The officers returned to the cutter and stayed nearby.
When the officers tried again over the next day or so to get Baluchi to join them on the small boat, Baluchi displayed two knives and threatened to hurt himself if officers boarded his vessel. Baluchi also "threatened to blow himself up," along with his vessel. The officers saw him holding wires in his hand and believed him, the complaint says.
it sounds like he has an undiagnosed mental illness of some kind. I hope he's able to get help.
I found the NPR article extremely funny. When it listed his other achievements as reported by the CNN in the same NPR article; it made me indulge further into this individual's history. This man...
He ran away from his homeland, Iran, and spent seven years on a bicycle, pedaling 49,700 miles across 55 countries.
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It’s been nearly 10 years since Reza Baluchi escaped from Iran. He has run across the United States twice and around its perimeter once. He sets out on every journey with the same mission: to spread a message of world peace.
This man sought asylum in the United States, the way he went about getting there was interesting too.
His life on the road – running in a security vest adorned with the American and Iranian flags – took him from China to Panama, France and New Zealand – 55 countries in all. Communicating the message of love and peace.
Eighty-five flat tires later, Baluchi arrived at the U.S. border in Monterrey, Mexico, asking for a visa to enter America. After waiting three months with no document, Baluchi says he got lost while riding his bike in the desert.
“I was 27 miles in Arizona and I had no idea,” he said. “I was awakened one morning by a helicopter hovering over my tent. It was border patrol. When they told me I was actually in the U.S. I started crying.”
It was a year after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, and a Middle Eastern man riding alone in the desert might raise suspicions.
“I started speaking German, hoping they wouldn’t know my nationality. Once the officer searched my tent and saw one of the newspaper headlines ‘Iranian Runs Around the World for Peace,’ he jumped back and put his hand on his gun.”
Baluchi was arrested for entering the United States illegally and spent five months in a detention center, unable to post $5,000 bail.
A LA-based businessperson, David Hyslop, intrigued by his story wrote a letter of support to the detention center and ultimately became his agent for his cross-country marathon, alike Terry Fox for us Canadians, running an average of 29 miles a day for 124 days.
They left Los Angeles on Mother’s Day, planning to arrive in New York City by the second anniversary of Sept.11. They were traveling with a $28,000 donation for the Children’s Aid Society, Baluchi’s bicycle and “Rocky,” a stray dog they picked up along the way.
Baluchi arrived to a cheering crowd at Battery Park. The next day he presented his bike to Engine 33, Ladder 9, the closest fire station to Ground Zero. Ten of its 14 firefighters were killed in the response to the World Trade Center attack.
“We found out these guys were also cyclists,” Hyslop said. “We pulled up to the fire house and they were standing outside waiting for Reza. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house, it was unbelievable.”
“These guys are true heroes,” Baluchi said. “They gave their lives to save others. So I wanted to donate my bike from the people of Iran, not from the government. I stay out of the politics.”
There's so much more in the article, but wow, what miraculous achievements and character.
A lot less funny when you find out the guy threatened to kill himself and blow himself up if the coast guard approached his boat. Poor guy is mentally ill
A lot less funny when you find out the guy threatened to kill himself and blow himself up if the coast guard approached his boat. Poor guy is mentally ill
it looks cool, but it's absolutely not seaworthy. it'd be a fun thing to ride around in a lake, but they're correct in keeping it out of the ocean.
cw suicide
it sounds like he has an undiagnosed mental illness of some kind. I hope he's able to get help.
I found the NPR article extremely funny. When it listed his other achievements as reported by the CNN in the same NPR article; it made me indulge further into this individual's history.
This man sought asylum in the United States, the way he went about getting there was interesting too.
A LA-based businessperson, David Hyslop, intrigued by his story wrote a letter of support to the detention center and ultimately became his agent for his cross-country marathon, alike Terry Fox for us Canadians, running an average of 29 miles a day for 124 days.
There's so much more in the article, but wow, what miraculous achievements and character.
A lot less funny when you find out the guy threatened to kill himself and blow himself up if the coast guard approached his boat. Poor guy is mentally ill
Yup
The way he is quoted in this article, especially at the end, makes him sound a bit like Yoda.