“I don’t think people could hold there more than five minutes in this water, especially with clothes on,” he added. It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby.”
The sauna boat happened to drift by soon after the Tesla ended up in the water, Oslo police said.
Photos show people on the vessel with towels around their waists pulling the passengers out of the water.
“One of the guests came running and told me a car had landed in the water. I accelerated to full speed in the direction of the people,” the sauna boat’s skipper, Nicholay Nordahl, told Norwegian newspaper VG.
“With the help of two guests, we pulled them up. They were able to warm up in the sauna,” he added.
“It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby.”
Folks, I think we’ve got ourselves a brand new sentence here.
It sounds like a story from a very young child with very vivid imagination. Sure, Kevin, a floating sauna, that’s enough shrooms for you today.
To anyone wondering. Sauna boats are not common in Norway. It’s not “a thing”. Please don’t add it to the list of Scandinavian stereotypes 🙏
Your friendly neighbour Finland here! We love them sauna boats! They are very much a thing here!
I would move to Finland in a heartbeat if you weren’t all psychotic.
Also is a “friendly” Finn someone who makes eye contact as you pass them?
Psychotic? Are you sure it’s not the Swedes you are talking about? An understandle mistake, I know I couldn’t make difference between Swedes and Norwegians!
Eye contact? Thst too sounds like swedish shenanigans to me! A friendly Finn is one who moves far enough to the side when you pass, you know, to give space. Space is the second thing we love the most right after sauna boats! You know, the personal kind!
So you’re telling me people don’t drive their sauna boats to their job site in the forest where they rake the forest floor?
Probably are in Finland, though.
I know they’re not actually part of Scandinavia (rather Fenno-Scandinavia), but MAN do they love saunas! They even have a sauna in a Burger King and take sauna tents with them when they go camping!
Too late, henceforth all Norwegians are stamped as people eating lutefisk while steaming in their sauna boat, in a sea of Tesla’s.
I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, “the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal”, so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read “Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord…” if it were a different car.
I downvoted because of this. I don’t like Tesla. But I hate this click baiting and lying to tarnish a reputation. Let them do it themselves. They are doing a good enough job.
Self-driving (er, “”self””-driving) didn’t cross my mind actually. I read:
- driver wealthier than average
- not a parent with more than four kids (Tesla doesn’t make minivans) … (wait the X seats up to 7, though that’s uncommon I think)
- driver not in one of the highest death rate cars
I take your point that the benefits of being able to make these assumptions may not outweigh the downside of potentially misleading people on the potential self-driving aspect.
3 years ago, during peak Autopilot hype, the media absolutely would have plastered “AUTOPILOT FAIL???” all over the headlines. With a quiet retraction the next day with the driver admitting to a manual mistake.
I remember there was one big story about a Tesla that wrapped itself around a tree, caught fire, and occupants died. Instant blame on “Autopilot kills” and “EVs dangerous!!!” even though everyone who actually looked at the facts knew that autopilot won’t even activate on that street and it wouldn’t automatically go that fast.
A few weeks later post-autopsy, turns out it was a drunk dude showing off his car to his drunk friend, treated a residential road as a drag strip, with predictable results.
Perhaps the Scandinavians are right and saunas are the answer to everything.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Finns celebrated the news that alcohol and high heat killed the virus …
They are plentiful and for rent in Oslo; you can join strangers or book one for your party of guests.
It costs around $18 for a single ticket, or $10 if you’re a member. $250 to rent a floating sauna with room for 12, and options for smaller / larger. All sessions for two hours.
Saunas, universal single payer healthcare and 73 different ways to eat herring. Sincerely, am Scandinavian.
Oh. I thought, like, the whole company plunged off the side of the pier.
What a shame.
Cracking up picturing you legitimately disappointed, licking finger tip, turning newspaper page
