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Man swallowed by Florida sinkhole

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  • #32
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭shedweller


    The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »

    If a child died in a fire in Florida or someone was killed in a car crash there, people would still not joke about it.

    I hate crude and unnecessary jokes myself but sometimes the circumstances of a death call for a certain amount of levity.

    Especially in a forum such as this one.
    I'd say yer man that fell down the hole called for some levitation! LOL!!


  • #33
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    tight fit for the average murican.


  • #34
    tin79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    It's underground, they would use radar to detect it's layout. A bit of it opened up into the bedroom.

    What makes you such an expert in holes?

    Opened up a few in your own bedroom have ye?


  • #35
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    tin79 wrote: »
    What makes you such an expert in holes?

    Opened up a few in your own bedroom have ye?

    I am the only known natural enemy of the hole, the pile.


  • #36
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    shedweller wrote: »
    I'd say yer man that fell down the hole called for some levitation! LOL!!


    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!









    Not really.


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  • #37
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Well sink holes is another thing to add to the list of reasons not to go to Florida

    (I have been there 3 times.)

    Alligators, Pythons, Coral Snakes, Black Widows, Tornados, Hurricanes, Crime, Lightning, Heatstroke, Massive hailstones, Gun culture, Bible belt, Sharks, Jellyfish, 100% humidity......


  • #38
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    Well sink holes is another thing to add to the list of reasons not to go to Florida

    (I have been there 3 times.)

    Alligators, Pythons, Coral Snakes, Black Widows, Tornados, Hurricanes, Crime, Lightning, Heatstroke, Massive hailstones, Gun culture, Bible belt, Sharks, Jellyfish, 100% humidity......

    ....americans


  • #39
    Jazmine Tasty Self-control
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Jazmine Tasty Self-control


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    I'm inconsolable here, our thoughts at this time are with his family.
    To think that one of the 7 billion people on earth actually died.
    If we hadn't heard about it I'm sure everything would be OK.

    There is a bit of a middle ground between being inconsolable and joking about it, don't you think? Would you really be fine with people mocking the death of your father, brother or son on an internet forum? Really?


  • #40
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    What a nightmarish way to die.

    The poor bastard must literally have thought he was having a bad dream.


  • #41
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    And does everything thread about a disaster or tragedy in here have to turn into a hand-wringing debate about jokes?

    Just ignore them if you don't like them.


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  • #42
    shanered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    who will the yanks blame for this and declare war on

    It could have been caused by North korea's nuclear missile testing. :eek:

    :pac:


  • #43
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    Its not the fact that people die that bugs me. That's natural.

    Its people who joke about a tragedy that bugs me. Death isn't funny and somebody's life shouldn't be joked about like that.

    Death has been joked about for thousands of years across multiple civilisations. Where have you been? Uranus?


  • #44
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    The video clip associated with that article is very odd. The first half is reasonable enough with a policeman describing what happened and then the second half is just random shots of people doing nothing.


    Also, joking about people dying is only bad if there's a reasonable chance of someone connected with the incident being needlessly hurt by it. The chances of someone close to him finding and reading this thread are very remote. For better or worse the situation is very different if the person is Irish, even more so if they are very widely known.


  • #45
    johnayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭johnayo


    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    Well sink holes is another thing to add to the list of reasons not to go to Florida

    (I have been there 3 times.)

    Alligators, Pythons, Coral Snakes, Black Widows, Tornados, Hurricanes, Crime, Lightning, Heatstroke, Massive hailstones, Gun culture, Bible belt, Sharks, Jellyfish, 100% humidity......
    Is your man's wife now a black widow:rolleyes:


  • #46
    Dwork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Dwork


    "I will in me hole", he was heard to say when they warned him to run.


  • #47
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    Well sink holes is another thing to add to the list of reasons not to go to Florida

    (I have been there 3 times.)

    Alligators, Pythons, Coral Snakes, Black Widows, Tornados, Hurricanes, Crime, Lightning, Heatstroke, Massive hailstones, Gun culture, Bible belt, Sharks, Jellyfish, 100% humidity......

    Chads


  • #48
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    ....americans

    YFlyer wrote: »
    Chads

    Relevent: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan


  • #49
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    ....americans

    .................whiney Irish people moaning abou thow crap it is.


  • #50
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    People will be flocking to Florida to get rid of their unwanted "loved ones", it's cheaper than hiring a divorce lawyer.
    Maybe we could get rid of our politicians by dropping them in the sink hole :)


  • #51
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »
    Sinkhole my ass. Someone call Kevin Bacon.

    what, on one of them fcuking mobile phones he's been plugging?


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  • #52
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    Confab wrote: »

    Death has been joked about for thousands of years across multiple civilisations. Where have you been? Uranus?
    Smells great there...


    In YOUR endo....


  • #53
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    such a sucky way to go

    he didn't just drown, either it opened up directly under his bedroom so added scare factor

    RIP.


  • #54
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    Its people who joke about a tragedy that bugs me. Death isn't funny and somebody's life shouldn't be joked about like that.

    How do you know death isnt funny? Have you ever died? No...So STFU!


  • #55
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Could have been one of those Burmese Pythons


  • #56
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Oh my god! That's something to see in a horror movie. RIP.

    Can I ask something please? I suppose I could google it but I'll ask here. What exactly is a sinkhole? A hole develops, and opens up, big and deep? Does it close again? I know nothing about sinkholes.


  • #57
    E.S.T.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭E.S.T.


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Oh my god! That's something to see in a horror movie. RIP.

    Can I ask something please? I suppose I could google it but I'll ask here. What exactly is a sinkhole? A hole develops, and opens up, big and deep? Does it close again?

    My understanding is that this happens deep down when water gets into a new area and dissolves/moves the stone/sediment that is there and causes the ground to collapse in. Sort of like if an old mine collapsed in on itself.


  • #58
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Oh my god! That's something to see in a horror movie. RIP.

    Can I ask something please? I suppose I could google it but I'll ask here. What exactly is a sinkhole? A hole develops, and opens up, big and deep? Does it close again?

    It's basically a big cave that forms underground because of erosion or the roof of another underground cave collapsing. When it gets big enough that it can't support all the weight above it then it just collapses.

    Check this one out that happened in Guatemala a few years ago. Apparently it swallowed an entire factory!


  • #59
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Saw this on the news awhile ago. Had to google sinkhole as I never heard about it before.

    Sounds scary.

    Has anyone ever had the dream that they fall into a never ending hole? Its my worst nightmare and it can actually happen.


  • #60
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,713 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The business about it being 100 feet across was wrong. It was (I think) around 30 feet. The 100 ft was the exclusion zone they created around it for safety.


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  • #61
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭shedweller


    OctavarIan wrote: »

    It's basically a big cave that forms underground because of erosion or the roof of another underground cave collapsing. When it gets big enough that it can't support all the weight above it then it just collapses.

    Check this one out that happened in Guatemala a few years ago. Apparently it swallowed an entire factory!
    You can't even fill these things in! You just have to fence them off and pretend it didn't happen!


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