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As reported on BBC, 'Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden'.
A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.
The 135m-ship (443ft) missed Johan Helberg's house by metres at about 05:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday.
Mr Helberg was only alerted to the commotion by his panicked neighbour who had watched the ship as it headed straight for shore, in Byneset, near Trondheim.
"The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open," Mr Helberg told television channel TV2.
"I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship," he added, in an interview with the Guardian., external
"I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal."
"Five metres further south and it would have entered the bedroom," he added to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. "I didn't hear anything."
I think that this might have been a holiday home built right on the coast. I also read that the ship had run aground before.
A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.
The 135m-ship (443ft) missed Johan Helberg's house by metres at about 05:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday.
Mr Helberg was only alerted to the commotion by his panicked neighbour who had watched the ship as it headed straight for shore, in Byneset, near Trondheim.
"The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open," Mr Helberg told television channel TV2.
"I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship," he added, in an interview with the Guardian., external
"I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal."
"Five metres further south and it would have entered the bedroom," he added to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. "I didn't hear anything."
I think that this might have been a holiday home built right on the coast. I also read that the ship had run aground before.
