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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

You can't park there, mate!

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apparently the person steering the ship confessed that he was asleep.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e6jp6z6lgo

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

so he had this in common with the house owner, who was woken up not by a massive ship near missing his house, but by the neighbors checking on him.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

Damn ships always trampling over my rhubarb

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 1 year ago

Law of the sea, innit?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article keeps mentioning this neighbor, but it looks like that’s the only house out on this little peninsula. Wondering how far away this neighbor was coming from.

[–] okda@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

About 100m. See pictures in article I linked to.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

perhaps a top hat will follow. then an iron, a wee scottie dog, and a racecar.

and they'll all be chuff with $200s and get out of jail free cards.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Careful: this is a typical Israeli tactic to steal land.

Edit: oh, its a container ship, not a container.