VaughanJB
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I thought this was both a crazy, and a funny, story. This guy woke up to an oil tanker in his garden, missing his house by a few meters. Better yet, he hadn't noticed himself and had to be alerted to its imminent arrival.
SOURCE: 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."
So, what's the craziest thing you have come across in your garden/yard? I've had a few things, one of which, in Houston, TX. included a huge tree falling from my neighbors yard into my own. It clipped my garage, but luckily no damage (again, only by feet) other than to fencing.
Perhaps the craziest was when I was living in Essex, UK. I woke up one morning to find a burnt out car in my garden. The garden backed on to a parking lot, and during the evening a car had gone through the fence, hit a tree, and apparently caught fire. I heard nothing. No-one alerted us, not even the fire service. The tree had nasty fire damage though. The garden was fine, as was the house.
SOURCE: 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."
So, what's the craziest thing you have come across in your garden/yard? I've had a few things, one of which, in Houston, TX. included a huge tree falling from my neighbors yard into my own. It clipped my garage, but luckily no damage (again, only by feet) other than to fencing.
Perhaps the craziest was when I was living in Essex, UK. I woke up one morning to find a burnt out car in my garden. The garden backed on to a parking lot, and during the evening a car had gone through the fence, hit a tree, and apparently caught fire. I heard nothing. No-one alerted us, not even the fire service. The tree had nasty fire damage though. The garden was fine, as was the house.
