A man has attempted the bizarre stunt of running from Florida to New York inside a giant hamster wheel.
Per Fox 35 News, deputies from the Flagler County Sheriff's Department responded to calls from concerned citizens who spotted a strange contraption on the beach in Hammock, near Miami.
Deputies soon located the floating vessel, which was shaped like a larger version of a wheel used by small hamsters for exercise.
Inside, the cops discovered a man named Reza Baluchi, who hails from the city of Orlando in the sunshine state.
Baluch told the officers that he had been attempting to run inside the hamster wheel floatable from his home all the way to New York in order to raise money for charity.
However, despite his fair intentions, Baluchi's unusual exploit had been waylaid when he encountered what he described as "complications" which drove him back to the coast.
In an official statement made on Facebook, a spokesperson for the Flagler County Sheriff's Office wrote: "This morning, the #FCSO responded to a call about a vessel washing ashore in the Hammock area.
"Thank you to the concerned citizens who reported this. We are happy to announce that the occupant of the vessel is safe with no injuries!"
The spokesperson wrote in a later update: "The occupant advised he left the St. Augustine area yesterday to head to New York but came across some complications that brought him back to shore.
"The US Coast Guard was contacted and arrived on scene to take over the case and ensure the vessel/occupant [is] USCG compliant for their safety moving forward."
In a later interview with the above publication, Baluchi stated: "My goal is to not only raise money for homeless people, raise money for the Coast Guard, raise money for the police department, raise money for the fire department.
"They are in public service, they do it for safety and they help other people. [sic]"
Meanwhile, Daily Mail reports that Baluchi previously had to be rescued from a so-called "hydro-bubble" near Saint Augustine back in 2014 when he had attempted to travel 3,000 miles in it from Florida to Bermuda.
He was rescued yet again by the local Coast Guard in 2016, after being given a written warning by them not to attempt another five-month-long trip in the floatable from Pompano Beach to Bermuda.
