A Norwegian man, Johan Helberg, was shocked to find a 135-meter container ship grounded just meters from his backyard. Neighbors alerted him early Thursday, May 22, in Byneset near Trondheim. Helberg recalled a friend saying, “Have you not seen the ship?” as the vessel narrowly missed hitting his home.
“The doorbell rang at a time when I don’t really like opening the door,” Helberg told Sky News. “I like to go back to sleep. But it was a very insistent ring, so I finally went to answer it.”
“And there’s a guy I know very well standing there, looking at me in amazement and saying, ‘Have you not seen the ship?’ ” Helberg continued.
“But I hadn’t. So I went to the window and saw this [the ship],” Helberg added.
PEOPLE has contacted the Norwegian Cruise Line and the Norwegian Police for comment.
The astonished man told The Guardian that he had to “bend my neck” to see the top of the ship. “It was so unreal.”
“Five meters further south and it would have entered the bedroom,” he told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, per the BBC. “I didn’t hear anything.”
