Imagine you're just walking down the street and then BAM!!! the ground vanishes

SugarHigh · 01-06-2010 12:17AM #1

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/05/500x_undimiento.jpg

That pics real:eek:

"This can't be real" was my first thought. Then I checked the source: The Guatemalan government. What you are looking at here is a sinkhole that just appeared in the Zone 2 of Ciudad de Guatemala. And it's very real.

A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the removal of soil by water. This process can happen slowly, but sometimes the land just cracks open. In this case, the sinkhole happened suddenly. It was caused by massive waterfall from tropical storm Agatha, which is now hitting the area.

Sinkholes can go from slow depressions to apparently never ending holes like this one. Luckily, it happened in a street intersection and there are no victims. [Flickr via Boing Boing]

Photo by Paulo Raquec

I wonder what they will do with it?
Could make a good dump I suppose.

wobblyknees · 01-06-2010 12:20AM

That pic has been doing the rounds a bit. Usually as part of a most amazing series. Have a look at this:

http://www.nuffy.net/cool/articles/ten-worlds-biggest-holes.html

Indubitable · 01-06-2010 12:21AM

A murderers paradise...

kieran26 · 01-06-2010 12:21AM

they get all the good stuff out foreign, ireland is so boring

Leeg17 · 01-06-2010 12:22AM

I know I know!, Mary Harney will be good for something for once!

SugarHigh · 01-06-2010 12:23AM

wobblyknees wrote: »

That pic has been doing the rounds a bit. Usually as part of a most amazing series. Have a look at this:

http://www.nuffy.net/cool/articles/ten-worlds-biggest-holes.html

This is a new one but it's the same sort of thing.

Ruu_Old · 01-06-2010 12:24AM

Ah, time to go for a brisk walk, nice morning for it to..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..

My name is URL · 01-06-2010 12:27AM

http://subverseaphrodesia.com/images/samuel-photo_400x364.jpg

starbelgrade · 01-06-2010 12:27AM

Blah. Big deal. I've 6 sinks in my house - they all have sinkholes.

faceman · 01-06-2010 12:40AM

"Hi, Im from Zone 2." Anyone else think the location name is far weirder than the hole??

starbelgrade · 01-06-2010 12:44AM

faceman wrote: »

"Hi, Im from Zone 2." Anyone else think the location name is far weirder than the hole??

Taking all things into consideration... odd location name vs. vast gaping chasm suddenly appearing in the road, I would safely answer that question with a resounding 'no'.

aidan24326 · 01-06-2010 12:53AM

SugarHigh wrote: »

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/05/500x_undimiento.jpg

That pics real:eek:

I wonder what they will do with it?
Could make a good dump I suppose.

Two people were killed I think.

Standard Toaster · 01-06-2010 01:47AM

Just need someone to leave the tap running in the Department of Finance

mikom · 01-06-2010 01:49AM

Ireland's sinkhole is known as Anglo Irish bank.

The_B_Man · 01-06-2010 05:16AM

Nah, thats not a sinkhole, its the new lift shaft they're building for the underground lizards to come to the surface a little more easily. Especially the ones in wheelchairs.

billy the squid · 01-06-2010 06:31AM

mikom wrote: »

Ireland's sinkhole is known as Anglo Irish bank.

that's not a sink hole, that is just a black hole.

Longboard · 01-06-2010 07:45AM

Damn you silver surfer.....

Rubberlegs · 01-06-2010 10:17AM

Apparently this did happen to a woman years and years ago in England, though, and she was never seen again, so my aunt told me. think she may have had a child in buggy with her:eek::eek:

orourkeda · 01-06-2010 11:23AM

Sounds like the ideal place to retreat too the next time you want the ground to swallow you up

Killer Pigeon · 01-06-2010 11:30AM

Don't want to brag ... but it still won't fit.

brummytom · 01-06-2010 11:41AM

73Cat wrote: »

Apparently this did happen to a woman years and years ago in England, though, and she was never seen again, so my aunt told me. think she may have had a child in buggy with her:eek::eek:

You're not on about the old woman who fell through a high street in Birmingham a few years ago are you? She was fine

GavRedKing · 01-06-2010 11:48AM

The_B_Man wrote: »

Nah, thats not a sinkhole, its the new lift shaft they're building for the underground lizards to come to the surface a little more easily. Especially the ones in wheelchairs.

Or could be the Mole people trying get out through the surface by blowing a hole in the earth big enough to get their UFO's out, heres hoping they are going to Blisstonia.

Actually, mentioning Lizard people and conspiracy theories and the like, where was Jim Corr that day, anybody know if he rented heavy machinery or got his hands on explosives?

01-06-2010 01:25PM

That's a big hole.

ScumLord · 01-06-2010 01:29PM

brummytom wrote: »

You're not on about the old woman who fell through a high street in Birmingham a few years ago are you? She was fine

It's a shame she' gone then.

It looks more like a giant worm hole, I suspect those yolks from tremors. Someone call Kevin Bacon.

Wazdakka · 01-06-2010 01:39PM

ScumLord wrote: »

It looks more like a giant worm hole, I suspect those yolks from tremors. Someone call Kevin Bacon.

I don't think he can help any more..

He went a bit....
Strange..

Tar.Aldarion · 01-06-2010 01:58PM

Hmm that Great Blue Hole freaks me out, hate when there is dark and light water because it's deep! Damn giant squid :mad:

punchdrunk · 01-06-2010 02:46PM

"dude...where's my car?"

"eh...see that big feckin hole in the ground over there?"

Wazdakka · 01-06-2010 03:34PM

I Knew it...

Mystery Solved...

:mad:

df1985 · 01-06-2010 03:55PM

cnn are reporting a 3 story building and a house fell into that hole-scary!

FruitLover · 01-06-2010 03:59PM

Ruu wrote: »

Ah, time to go for a brisk walk, nice morning for it to..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..

Surely you mean AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....

punchdrunk · 01-06-2010 04:10PM

i've got it sussed...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38412222@N06/4660269538/

Imagine you're just walking down the street and then BAM!!! the ground vanishes

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