[Herra Tohtori]

BBC: Guatemala homes swallowed by hole

 


Daamn... one hell of a hole I dare say. Apparently the town's main sewage pipe had been ripped due to an obstruction, and the leaking sewage water eventually created this fricking huge cave, which then collapsed. Although I dare suspect that explanation - unless the ground is really, really soft in Guatemala, because that kind of geological features normally take hundreds or thousands of years to be created by flowing water.

Here are some pretty impressive photos.




I'd say that in freakyness scale this is almost on par with the Indonesian sludge volcano, just the scale is a little smaller.

[aldo_14]

Crikey.  That's one big hole.

[Sarafan]

That's freaking huge, we had something similar to this here recently but it was only 200ft and the cause was sheer incompetence, the companies in charge of the construction decided to save some money by not using adequate materials to build the thing, 7 people died because of that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6258379.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6258579.stm

[Rictor]

Bless the Maker and his water. Bless the coming and going of him. May his passage cleanse the world.

[Nuclear1]

Crikey.  That's one big hole.

That's what she said.

[Herra Tohtori]

Crikey.  That's one big hole.

That's what she said.

Who?

[Nuclear1]

Crikey.  That's one big hole.

That's what she said.

Who?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7T2nJLFQA

or, slightly longer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=exm7HMA1tDM

[Fineus]

Damnit, you guys beat me to the joke.

Ah well... I'll try another one. There's a theory going around that that hole isn't from rain, it's from weapons fire...

[Unknown Target]

That's a big hole.

[karajorma]

First Brazil then Guatamala?

Prepares himself for the appearance of the The Underminer!

[Fragrag]

Whoa, Hey Arnold! (Someone is bound to get that)

[redsniper]

^^ Move it football head!

[Bob-san]

^^ How about some green tea?

[Taristin]

It's an emergence hole... but the house fell on the locust instead.

[Nuke]

god damn mother earth is a whore!

[Tyrian]

Didn't the US promise not to play Russian Roulette with the orbital particle beams?

But seriously:

Crikey.  That's one big hole.

It doesn't seem to me that a sewer pipe could do that much damage...Unless it was a really big pipe...

[achtung]

There's no way a sewer pipe did that, in those extra pictures, I think I see rock.

[Turnsky]

"That's a Spicy meat-a-ball!" 

[Nuclear1]

That's a big hole.

That's what she said.

[Alpha_Monkey]

Hard to believe raw sewage did that, unless the sewage in Guatemala is *really* corrosive.

Must be all the chilli's in their diet?