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-Short Attention Span Theater-
You can't tell how deep a puddle is, from the top.
2024-01-25
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Oregon couple driving home from Taco Bell in storm share terror after water-logged road crumbled beneath their Jeep and sent them into 12-foot SINKHOLE
  • Katlynn Bicknell and Kevin Noel managed to escape from their vehicle, which had plunged into a 12-foot sinkhole on Saturday in Vancouver, Washington

  • The sinkhole was caused by a leak of a 1940s water pipe, city officials said

  • Vancouver Public Works said sinkholes are possible but not common
An important lesson from my father.
Extended to "Assess any situation to the best of your ability before you act."

Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Oregon couple driving home from Taco Bell

I see mentioning Taco Bell was an integral part of the story. I mean, I don't think I could have finished reading had I not known that they were driving home from Taco Bell.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2024-01-25 17:34  

#3  Sure; go through a bag of Taco Bell and blame something else for the hole in the road.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-01-25 17:30  

#2  Eighty years.
Posted by: Spats B. Hayes8168   2024-01-25 17:05  

#1  So how long had the eighty-year-old pipe been leaking before the water department noticed?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2024-01-25 08:54  

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