00:00This guy tried to steal the moon literally.
00:03In 1952, a baby named Walter Mellon was born in Salty Springs, California.
00:09During his childhood, he was known as a genius and was even given the Child Prodigy of the Year Award in 1961.
00:15But during his teenage years, he started to get into some trouble and even spent some time in jail.
00:21His parents eventually cut him off from the family and he disappeared for a while.
00:26But little did anyone know that he was spending the past several years building a machine to pull the moon closer to Earth.
00:32On June 6, 1984, he would point his creation towards the moon and shoot a laser at it from the roof of his home.
00:40After a few minutes, the police and news reporters would show up on the scene.
00:44The police ordered Walter to turn it off, but he refused, saying,
00:47I'm going to steal the moon and no one is going to stop me.
00:50He was then tased and arrested, then was later put into a heavily locked down prison
00:54and has not been seen or heard of since.
00:57Astronomers were astonished when they realized the moon was actually closer to Earth
01:01and Walter's machine actually would have worked if he wasn't stopped.
01:05He was astonished with the moon.
01:05device escalated with the moon is to 105 years old.
01:06And the
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