Norwegian man wakes up to find grounded cargo ship had narrowly missed his home
A Norwegian man woke up one morning to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord's coast.
Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he had slept through the whole thing and only woke up when a neighbour started ringing his doorbell.
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