A farm in Ronchi di Termeno, Italy, was nearly squashed by titanic boulders that rumbled off nearby mountains in a landslide. One of them destroyed the barn, while another stopped a whisker shy of the farmhouse itself. The furrows the boulders cut through the fields are straight out of a golden age DC comic.
Boulder smashes through Italian farm [BBC]
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
(Images: downsized, cropped thumbnails of photos from the Associated Press)
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