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440+' Container Ship runs aground at coastal home, man in the house sleeps thru the crash!

Melensdad

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I don't know what this Norwegian guy takes for sleep medication, but I need some. Seriously this is nuts.

VIDEO AT THE LINK:


The cause of the accident remains under investigation. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Full story at LINK ABOVE ^^^



Man sleeps through massive container ship running aground on his front lawn :sleep:

CNN — normal
A Norwegian man managed to sleep through an enormous container ship running aground on his front lawn.
Johan Helberg, who lives in Byneset, on the Trondheim Fjord, was woken by his neighbor on Thursday morning asking if he had noticed a boat outside, TV2 Norway reported.
When he looked out his door, he saw a 135-meter-long (443-foot) container ship parked up in his front yard.
Bystanders look at the grounded ship.
“If the ship had hit the rocky outcrop right next to it, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard. It only missed by a few meters,” Helberg told TV2.
His neighbor, Jostein Jørgensen, who lives about 40 meters (131 feet) from the beach, told TV2 he was woken around 5 a.m. by the sound of a boat approaching.
“When I looked out the window, I saw a boat speeding toward the shore,” he told the local TV network, adding that he ran outside and shouted to raise the alarm.
No one was injured in the incident.
Jørgensen said the boat, the NCL Salten, got closer and closer until it ran aground about eight meters (26 feet) from the wall of his neighbor’s house.
“He was lying asleep and surprised he had a visitor,” Jørgensen told TV2.
. . .​
Bente Hetland, managing director of the shipping company NCL, called it a “serious incident” and said the company was “grateful that nobody was injured in the grounding.” . . .
 
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