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Sinkhole Swallows 8 Vehicles Inside Bowling Green KY Corvette Museum
OakDragon writes "A sinkhole about 40 feet wide — and 30 feet deep — opened up inside the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY early Thursday morning, swallowing eight vehicles that were sitting inside. At least one of these cars is one of a kind, and due to its location the fire department allowed its removal. The sinkhole is remarkable in that it has left the surrounding ground which supports the circular structure intact, although that assessment may change up on investigation. Security footage from inside the museum shows the collapse as it happened."
the sinkhole was likely an attempted theft using underground tunnels to bore directly into the car museum. the coolest part is that the tunnel made itself using the sinkhole-ray and the cars fell into the hole and they just drove them off!
Well that's just a son of a ditch.
At least no people got hurt, unlike that poor guy who had a sinkhole open up under his bedroom and died.
But you'd have thought if the original builders knew about sinkholes they've have either build a very thick concrete base slab and/or plenty of deep piles. Looking at that mess they did neither.
Somewhere a distant echo in my brain is a proverb about Vettes saying something about a deep hole that you throw money into.
Seems like prophesy instead of proverb at this point.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Stupid sinkhole attacked the wrong museum in Kentucky.
I struggled for days and days and all I got was this lousy sig.
When it was done, it was the fastest time ever recorded, by any car. Since then, it has been broken many times, but never by a car close to its price.