Man-eating sinkhole claims victim in Florida

Wicked good.

 

Florida eats Florida man

 

I'm shocked at the lack of effort to rescue the guy.

If this had happened in Los Angeles, there'd be a non-stop effort to get him the hell out of the hole -- they'd have that house torn apart and rescuers dangling from ropes from cranes above the hole within 20 minutes.

The nonchalant attitude of the Florida authorities says a lot about that place.

Think God the Chilean miners weren't trapped outside Tampa.

 

He was dead two minutes after the hole swallowed him. Drowned or asphyxiated, take your pick.

 

This.

 

Proof?

 

And the fact that this is not a typical sink hole. It's huge. It's deep and there's been a lot of concern that the whole area will start toppling in. Recovering his body while killing others would not be a great idea.

 

Dude, Buckwheat not Gumby.

RIP, John David Stutts

 

I live about five miles from where this all happened. The water table here is basically right beneath your feet. It's a very, very safe assumption to assume he drowned pretty much immediately after he fell in.

And once the ground starts going, it goes fast. I noticed that there have been very few pictures from the scene showing the actual damage to the house. I'm guessing it's because the ground is so unstable that it's not safe for photographers to get anywhere close to it.

A very scary situation, and unfortunately not uncommon in west-central Florida, where the topography is not really built for the increase in development (and water usage) of the last 30 years.

 

This is a scary situation, and, I'm sure there's something I don't know or understand very well about it. But I've had that same thought about this.

 

This is the most terrifying thing I have seen in years. Dude was just sitting there.

 

"Nature bats last."