Repairs are to begin Wednesday on a 65-foot-deep (20 meters) sinkhole that opened in the eastern German town of Schmalkalden on Monday, local authorities said.
The sinkhole, which measured more than 130 feet (40 meters) across, swallowed a car and forced the evacuation of 25 people in nine houses, the regional newspaper Thueringer-Allgemeine reported.
Officials told the paper more than 1,000 truckloads of gravel would be needed to fill the hole.
Residents reported hearing a loud roar as the earth gave way early Monday morning, according to the newspaper report. The cause of the sinkhole had not been determined.
JĂĽrgen Reinholz, environment and agriculture minister for the state of Thuringia, said natural causes were suspected, according to Spiegel Online International.
1000 truck loads of gravel or kill two birds with one stone, 1000 bus loads of muslims and fix that immigration problem at the same time.
Dang, racist always mess everything up, this was a funny comment section. pitiful
muslims are not a race
The hole is definately obama's fault
The yellow car is a Volkswagen Golf.
Then that must be a golf hole????
ELH, you put your finger right on it..... the hole that is.
There's no way Tiger can miss this hole in one.
Gravity is the culprit! and increasing as we type.
please tell dr bad they found his nurse
Eoesnt it occurred to you that more and more of these sinkholes are happening around the world ?
Tell me paranoid here, but it seems very strange that something powerful and part of nature is slowing awaken..
may god-universe help us all !!!!
It was an insect infestation.
No tears.
Natural causes!? Nobody is prepared from the power of my sinkhole machine. MUHAHAHAHAHA
2012 IS NEAR
All the rivers and oceans shall turn to BLOOD. And famine and pestilence shall be the blight of man and beast alike!!
First and foremost, we must shift the blame to Obama, who can make amends with Germany by sending a construction helicopter (paid for by American taxpayers, it's the least they can do) that can lift large equipment, to lower rescue workers into the hole, secure the car, and lift it out of the hole thus saving the car. Otherwise, the resulting bad karma may cause a sinkhole to open up and swallow Washington D.C., requiring the CIA to send a special ops team into the hole to rescue Obama and democrats in Congress.
Line with concrete, make into pool.
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Hmm, I think Geraldo might have finally found Al Capone's Vault!
I thought I was the sinkhole
@ Nancy Pelosi:
Nah,honey. You just the bunghole. Here have another cuppa tea.
The neighbourhood looks really tranquil and clean. Won't be that way for long when the trucks arrive to fill that sinkhole with dirt!
Its because NBC fired Conan!