Watch pothole grow in size, then grab car that tries to drive over it

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Watch pothole grow in size, then grab car that tries to drive over it | Boing Boing

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[dfaris]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

[gracchus]

“Screw that guy for making me wait! Since he no doubt cares enough about me to be watching in his rear-view mirror, I’ll show him how a real man handles things!”

[danimagoo]

I was driving through Toms River, NJ last week when traffic ground to nearly a complete stop. As we inched forward, I saw that the left two lanes were closed and there was construction equipment. I thought, “they should save this for the middle of the night, not 4 in the afternoon.” I later found out a sinkhole had opened up in an intersection so they had no choice but to block traffic and fix it. Sink holes scare me.

[FSogol]

It’s a sinkhole. Let’s stand around the edges of it!
The ones around the Shenandoah Valley swallow cars whole. Scary stuff.

[HaroldHill]

Cue Cookie Monster “Om nom nom” sounds.

[theophrastus]

Here’s a youtube option if one is attempting to detour around Twitter

[erroneus]

“pffft. I have an SUV!”

[chgoliz]

I once watched a small sports car drive over a large and deep pothole (not sinkhole) in Chicago. One way street, and only one lane with parked cars on either side, so there wasn’t a way to detour, but he certainly could have taken it much more carefully instead of accelerating. I say drive over, but it broke his front axle, so he was stuck there until they could tow him out.

[CliffG59]

Not that it matters but is it known where this one is?
Does not look like the U.S…

[chgoliz]

Based on the driving on the left clue, probably somewhere in the U.K., but there are other possibilities of course.

[dfaris]

Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.

Sinkhole opens up in busy Worksop street – and swallows passing vehicle

[bluehenbear]

I wouldn’t say that pothole swallowed up the vehicle, but it certainly did take a bite.

[MerelyGifted]

A friend once told me and some other mutuals rather gleefully about his having “witnessed the birth of a pothole!”

He’d seen a truck throw up a massive divot from what had been a patched and re-patched and re-re-patched section of a V busy road in the Metropolitan Detroit Area. He was fair astonished.