Actual disaster that looks 'shopped

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:07 am

This was also in my morning paper.

http://uktodaynews.com/5437/guatemala-s ... -pictures/

I didn't know what to think about this, and showed it to my parents - turns out my dad once encountered a sinkhole at his workplace, which claimed a whole building. Their theory was that the building's pilings created a ring of perforations in the ground that did it... and apparently the search party climbing down reached about 100m, then gave up the ghost.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:21 am

There are lots of almost perfectly round sinkholes. Still scary looking though- "Yikes" is pretty much all I can say.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:53 am

A house a couple of doors down almost went under about 30 years ago, due to the instability caused by all the extensive mining that was done in this area over a hundred years ago. In the end, all they really lost was their front garden, side gate, couple of gnomes, etc.

Tell you one thing, it'll take a helluva lot of earth to fill that thing in.

Oh, and most holes tend towards a round cross-section. It's something to do with a surface tension analogy.

sidestreaker · Post by **sidestreaker** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:34 am

Is this for real? looks fake. Still..scary stuff. poor security guard