Norway cabin owner snoozes as cargo ship runs aground outside

Oslo: A man in Norway awoke early Thursday to discover a huge container ship had run aground a stone s throw from his fjord side house and he had s...

Oslo: A man in Norway awoke early Thursday to discover a huge container ship had run aground a stone's throw from his fjord-side house -- and he had slept through the commotion.

For an as-yet unknown reason, the 135-metre (443-foot) NCL Salten sailed up onto shore just metres from Johan Helberg's house in a fjord near Trondheim in central Norway.

Helberg only discovered the unexpected visitor when a panicked neighbour who had rung his doorbell repeatedly to no avail gave up and called him on the phone.

"The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open," Helberg told television channel TV2.

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