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Having waterfront property is beautiful, but there can be some downsides, like coastal flooding, salt-air corrosion, the occasional hunter on your land ... or a ship in your backyard.
Johan Helberg of Norway awoke Thursday morning to see that a huge container vessel had crashed just 15 feet from his house. The crazy part is that he hadn't heard a thing -- he woke up when his neighbors were ringing his doorbell.
Helberg says, "There's a guy I know very well standing there, looking at me in amazement and saying, 'Have you not seen the ship?' But I hadn't. So I went to the window and saw this."
There were no injuries on the ground or onboard, and local authorities are investigating the cause of the crash