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Now that's a sinkhole

by joe golfer
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This person's car disappeared in a hole that looks like it goes to hell.

The Home Counties sink hole that swallowed a CAR! Family flee village home after their VW disappears into 30ft-deep crater which appeared overnight | Mail Online
  • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
    Hi Joe,

    I was in Wycombe two weeks ago.

    Sadly though, I get the impression, especially from some of the sink hole news I've seen in America and other places that you may be subjected to a bit of Crocodile Dundee terminology.

    "That's not a sinkhole, this, is a bloody sinkhole!"

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    They all look like they've been previously dug - look how round they are. Not saying it's fake that they caved, just that there was a man-made reason for the sinkage, not natural unless they are an old volcanic tube or some such.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by danr62 View Post

      That first one looks fake to me.
      It might well be. Google sinkhole, there are quite a few images of this at different angles and others similar. It was just to illustrate my point to Joe though.

      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      They all look like they've been previously dug - look how round they are. Not saying it's fake that they caved, just that there was a man-made reason for the sinkage, not natural unless they are an old volcanic tube or some such.
      Hi Sal,

      There's an image below of how they are supposed to have been formed but I've heard around certain areas like High Wycombe where it happened that they're often very old land fill sites that were filled in and have gradually become what they are.



      Interestingly, was this one man made?



      You can read about it here...

      Sinkhole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      I find it quite interesting.
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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
        Apologies for my multiple posts yesterday. Every time I posted it wasn't there, must have been a blip.
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