It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
everywhere you go [aground]. ♫
(Hmmm, that even looks like a Norway spruce.)
Posted on 05/23/2025 2:03:12 PM PDT by ransomnote
ransomnote: Two images from the slide show at the article link:
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian man awoke 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’d slept through the whole thing and only woke up when a neighbor started ringing his doorbell.
Images show the ship’s red and green bow just meters (yards) from Helberg’s house. He told NRK the only damage was to a heating pump’s wire.
Authorities say they received reports that the NCL Salten had run aground shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday.
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:-)
Reminds me of a “Saturday Evening Post” cartoon. Two men are surrounded by fog. One is on his balcony and the other is on the bridge wing of ship. The man says, “Well, one of us is serious trouble.”
With rumors, you never can tell.
Does he get the salvage rights since its on his land?
can the homeowner now claim salvage rights ? (s/off)
Bad luck. The man just missed getting a new house. He could probably have scored some serious upgrades.
Looks more like a delivery from The Container Store.
It reminded me of a little story in the old Reader’s Digest.
In deep dense fog, a ship captain can barely see the tiniest flicker of light ahead, and radios the other vessel to tell him to make a course correction to avoid collision. He tries a few times, but the reply is always ‘negative, advise you change your course’. The captain foots the request to his admiral who demands the other vessel change course, while citing his lofty military authority. The reply is, ‘Negative. I am a lighthouse. Advise you change your course immediately.’
Yup. Reader’s Digest humor.
Nailed it!
knock, knock...
Johan heard a knock at his door, only to discover the ship’s captain...asking if he could use the bathroom.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
everywhere you go [aground]. ♫
(Hmmm, that even looks like a Norway spruce.)
Something is telling him he lives waaaaaaay too close to the water ,LOL
This is why so many people want water front property.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Looking at the scuff marks on the hull, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was headed right for his house and that point of land shoved it off to the side just enough.
Finder’s keepers.
I was just going to ask, doesn’t a ship being grounded, make a TON of noise, and this guy was able to sleep through it?
The library had a seizure and ended up out in the street?
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