A man from Florida may have to sue Japan after rubbish from the International Space Station (ISS) crashed through his house.
Well, Japan’s space agency anyway.
That’s a lot to take in, let’s take a beat.
Unsurprisingly, there is limited space for garbage on the ISS, meaning teams on board regularly throw their rubbish out into space, where it falls to Earth and burns up in the atmosphere.
At least that’s the plan.
But last month, they dropped a pallet of used batteries – the heaviest trash dump yet – and it seems some of it survived the fiery re-entry over the Gulf of Mexico.
Alejandro Otero believes part of the pallet plummeted through the roof of his home in Naples, Florida, narrowly missing his son.
Sharing security footage on X, formerly Twitter, which captured the sound of the falling debris, Mr Otero said: ‘Looks like one of those pieces… landed in my house in Naples.
‘Tore through the roof and went through two floors. Almost hit my son.’
