Sometimes, folks, lady luck smiles upon you warmly and showers you with all the treasures of the world. And then sometimes she kicks you square in the crotch and laughs because she’s the ultimate messy bitch who loves drama.
Spare a thought for this young man in Brooklyn, who somehow – call the most unbelievable stroke of bad luck – fell victim to one of the smallest, most outrageously specific sinkholes you’re ever likely to lay eyes on.
The unidentified man fell through the surface of the ground after the hole opened up beneath one of his feet – not both, just the one – as he was crossing the street at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Walworth Street in the heart of Brooklyn.
The hole was big enough to suck down his entire right leg, right up to about thigh-height, rendering the poor bloke utterly stuck in what surely could not have been a comfortable position, right in the middle of the street.
.@FDNY is on scene at Myrtle x Walworth to get out a guys feet which got stuck in a sinkhole in middle of the street. pic.twitter.com/MtEQZnKrnc
— WILLIAMSBURG NEWS (@WMSBG) August 29, 2017
Seriously, I don’t know what’s worse: Having a voracious mother earth attempt to gnarl on your femur, or having your spare leg pinned beneath you in such a pretzel-ish manner.
Such was old mate’s predicament that the FDNY had to be called in to help extract him from the maw of the ground.
.@FDNY removed the guys feet from the sinkhole, was taken to hospital, use caution in the area, avoid open sinkhole. pic.twitter.com/qAhAYKYmkM
— WILLIAMSBURG NEWS (@WMSBG) August 29, 2017
Reports stated that after he was successfully hauled back up from the deep, the unfortunate sod was transported to hospital suffering “minor trauma” to his leg, which sounds to me like he got off lightly considering that in a worse case scenario he could still be falling.
You’d think the public would be warned en masse about this suddenly terrible tarmac, and yet…
It doesn’t look like much…Man got leg stuck up to his knee in sinkhole. FDNY rescued. Myrtle/Walworth. #1010WINS pic.twitter.com/D8Nuyo3yAb
— Al Jones (@aljoneswins) August 29, 2017
…ah yep, good. Great. That oughta do it. A faint orange box.
DOES BROOKLYN NOT KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DEALING WITH? THE ROAD IS TRYING TO EAT PEOPLE.
