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CONTAINER DELIVERY RIGHT TO YOUR DOOR
A Norwegian man was roused by a neighbor in the early morning and alerted to an unusual situation: a cargo ship was in his front yard.
Johan Helberg said he was asleep inside his home in Byneset, on the Trondheim Fjord, when a neighbor rang his doorbell at five am and called his phone to alert him to the fact that a 135-meter-long cargo ship had just run aground in his front yard.
Johan later said, "If the ship had hit the rocky outcrop next to the house, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard. It only missed by a few meters. If it had hit five meters (15 feet) to the right, it would have slid up the rocks, and my house would probably have looked completely different.
“If it had grounded only five meters to the right, it would have come right into the bedroom, and that would not have been very nice.”
Johan also remembers, "I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship. I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal."
The neighbor said he himself had awakened just a few minutes earlier to the sound of the boat approaching. He ran outside and attempted to raise an alarm.
Surprisingly, Johan had slept through the whole incident.
The neighbor said, "I rang the doorbell many times and nothing. It was only when I called him on the phone that I managed to contact him."
Later, Johan explained, "The doorbell rang at a time of day when I do not like to open it."
Bente Hetland, managing director of the shipping company NCL, said officials are investigating what caused the ship to run aground.
"At present time, we do not know what caused the incident and are awaiting the conclusion of the ongoing investigation by the relevant authorities," Hetland said in a statement. "We are currently assessing the damage to the ship."
Fortunately, there were no injuries resulting from the incident.
According to reports, that ship had previously run aground in 2023 but got free that time under its own power.
An initial attempt to tow the vessel out to sea failed, so emergency crews will have to wait for the next high tide to try again.
Local police said that an initial investigation indicates that the officer who was responsible for steering the ship may have fallen asleep at his post.
That makes two sound sleepers who slept through everything!
SOURCE: upi.com
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