Man wakes up to find a giant cargo ship in his yard

A man in Norway woke up to find a giant cargo ship had run aground in his yard.

It certainly was a rude awakening.

Johan Helberg was fast asleep in the early hours of Thursday when a huge container ship crashed into his garden, narrowly missing his home on the bank of Norway’s Trondheim Fjord.

“I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship,” Helberg told the Norwegian broadcaster TV2, adding, “I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal.”

The 442-foot-long NCL Salten was sailing to the western city of Orkanger when it went off course and ran aground in Helberg’s yard at around 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET).

Just a few feet “further south, and it would have entered the bedroom,” Helberg said in a separate interview with NRK, Norway’s public broadcaster.