With all the high-profile race-related news recently, from Clippers owner Donald Sterling to rancher kook Cliven Bundy to even Top Gear‘s Jeremy Clarkson, it’s nice to see something nondiscriminatory pop up. Take this sinkhole, for example. Yep, everyone’s favorite water-lubricated geological event is back, and this time it’s after cars of all colors and stripes, not just a bunch of fancy museum-piece Corvettes in Kentucky.
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There isn’t much to set up here: Essentially, there’s a street running alongside what appears to be a below-grade rail track. Mix in some rain, and what we can only assume to be a catastrophic retaining-wall failure, and you get the massive—and massively loud—vertical displacement of an entire section of road, parked cars and all. Watch for yourself below—the payoff’s at the end and well worth sitting through the first minute and a half:
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