Kicker: Container gardening

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NICK EICHER, HOST: You wake up in your peaceful Norwegian fjord, and staring back at you is a container ship at least five times taller than your house and longer than a football field. It’s run aground, having just about run the house into the ground.

HELBERG: [Speaking in Norwegian]

That’s the owner of the house, Johan Helberg, saying something along the lines of “it could’ve been worse… five yards closer and it would’ve been in my bedroom.”

An investigation is under way, but for now let’s just say the vessel missed a turn and went sliding toward the village. No one was hurt—just 16 confused crew and one startled neighborhood.

Helberg hopes his very bulky new neighbor weighs anchor soon. Yeah, no kidding. Because nothing says “good morning” like a 40-thousand ton pop-in guest.

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