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After three days of running in place, Baluchi gave up on his dream of reaching Bermuda via mobile hamster wheel. Which meant the Coast Guard needed a helicopter, an airplane, and $144,000 to rescue him from his own stupidity.
However, two years later, an undaunted Baluchi was right back at it. Officials pleaded with him not to go, informing him that his equipment was not cut out for the trip. Baluchi refused to see reason, believing he could catch fish along the way and sleep in a hammock suspended inside his bubble.
United States Coast Guard
In a shocking twist, the guys who basically run the ocean knew more about it than some guy slumming it in a giant pool floaty.
A very bitter Coast Guard tweeted to remind everyone how much Baluchi's rescue had cost American taxpayers, perhaps trying to intimidate Baluchi into sticking with the rivers and the lakes that he's used to. But Baluchi headed out anyway, and eventually had to be rescued again (obviously), this time with New York Daily News doing enough background work on the guy to report that he'd once entered the U.S. illegally after getting lost while riding his bicycle through the desert.
United States Coast Guard
Maybe people with no sense of direction shouldn't try to navigate the harshest landscapes on the planet.
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