The first step out of bed could have been a big one.
A woman in Guatemala City reports that a sinkhole, 40 feet deep and almost 3 feet across, opened under her bed Monday.
"When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighboring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street," Inocenta Hernandez, 65, said in an Agence France-Presse report.
"We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed," AFP quotes Hernandez as saying.
The area is prone to sinkholes.
In May 2010, a sinkhole about 60 feet across and 100 feet deep opened in the area, swallowing buildings and an intersection.
In 2007, another sinkhole claimed three lives in Barrio San Antonio in Guatemala City.
Hernandez told AFP that she is thankful the surprise under her bed wasn't any bigger.
"Thank God there are only material damages, because my grandchildren were running around the house, into that room and out to the patio," AFP quoted her as saying.
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BTW, where is Ersatz Ellis from Panama?
it is a bricklined well... it is obvious... it probably had been framed in to cover the hole and over the years the wood probably rotted or something and the floor fell out.. or an earth movement caused the covering to dislodge.
Astute observation. Close examination of the pic does seem to support your claim. Property transfers in the U.S. have to indicate to the potential buyer if any wells exist on the property, but apparently in South America anything goes.
I Agree. A true sink hole would be an inverted conical shape not a perfect cylindrical shape!
Same hole, different inspector and view. Would they shop 2 photos? Visit: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01950/sinkhole-bed_1950955i.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8649666/Pictures-of-the-day-20-July-2011.html%3Fimage%3D7&usg=__UkXhSMwxIgUrVFG_gcDAQGFbu6c=&h=413&w=620&sz=37&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=RuroqzAXfrXh4M:&tbnh=91&tbnw=136&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsinkhole%2Bbed%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1004%26bih%3D598%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=ct4mTtbWA4GDgAf5vcFc (This is the UK Telegraph site, not a spam site).
they did it to be socially correct. One with a black man and one with a white man.
Yes! The black and white chess board floor is quite PC.. MLK jr would be quite proud.
It's like strait out of a horror movie.
Thats the same thing I first thought. Imagine Howie Mandel sneaking out of that thing while you're sleeping. *shudders*
Judging from the photo this doesn't look like your typical sinkhole. It is probably a well that was filled in with debris, and the well floor collapsed into a subterranean cavity/sinkhole.
Yes,I,agree with Kenny.Imagine,that could,happen to any one of us,so don't brush it off;or laugh.Thank,God no one got hurt;espeicially the grandchildren. JoAnn Bartholomew
not to say that it isn't, but I don't see any brick, just some natural strata. Doesn't mean it's NOT a well, of course. Certainly doesn't make it any less scary to have a 40 foot hole open up under your bed!
As a designer, that's either photoshopped or the strangest behavior of lighting I've ever seen.
My thoughts exactly (also a designer)
Nothing strange about it. The light is on the inside of the sinkhole, while causing a shadow to cast behind the tape measure. No shadow from the hand, because the hand is above the light source. What do you design exactly?
At least that will cut down those long midnight trips to the bathroom.......
I agree with devils advocate: 6) If you look inside the hole to the right...there is a shadow for the measuring tape but there isn't a shadow for the hand holding the tape which should be there if the light is in that position.
the shadow is from the black cord supplying power to the light, not the tape measure. conspiracy fail.
How come most of those sinkholes are always that round ? Something fishy with it.
People tend to cover up wells, but do a terrible job at it. That explains the small ones.
@JBK The man is laying on the ground on his shoulder with his wrist turned down in the hole. The light is as well in the hole which is making for the so called weird lighting. You may be a designer but you have no concept of form or spacial orientation. The lighting makes perfect sense.
That's just where she belongs, by the sink.
Okay, this is one story I won't be showing my little kids. They read an article about 'camel spiders' once and it had them freaked out for weeks. Actually, maybe when they're not behaving, I'll tell them about the sinkholes. And that they are dug by giant camel spiders.
@Joey: You're just mad that even I have standards when it comes to sleeping with your scrawny drunken mother. Who's the little canine sidekick now? Even dogs have standards.