Sinkhole Swallows 8 Vehicles Inside Bowling Green KY Corvette Museum 97
OakDragon writes "A sinkhole about 40 feet wide — and 30 feet deep — opened up inside the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY early Thursday morning, swallowing eight vehicles that were sitting inside. At least one of these cars is one of a kind, and due to its location the fire department allowed its removal. The sinkhole is remarkable in that it has left the surrounding ground which supports the circular structure intact, although that assessment may change up on investigation. Security footage from inside the museum shows the collapse as it happened."
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What's wrong with you? What have the cars done to you? If you don't like Leno, tell him that, but leave the cars be.
Re:IF ONLY ... !! (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere a distant echo in my brain is a proverb about Vettes saying something about a deep hole that you throw money into.
Seems like prophesy instead of proverb at this point.
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A 65 split window is quite a boat.
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If you can remember the 60s, you werent there.
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Hmm...I somehow expected the first post to mention something akin slashdot being swallowed up by a sinkhole called beta. ACs don't quite troll like they used to.
Sure, but you see.. (Score:3)
I heard they knew about the sinkhole (Score:2, Insightful)
Which makes leaving them there a bit perplexing?
I'm sure they *thought* it was safe, but why keep rare and precious objects there when you know there is a big problem ready to happen?
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Which makes leaving them there a bit perplexing?
I'm sure they *thought* it was safe, but why keep rare and precious objects there when you know there is a big problem ready to happen?
Insurance payoff?
the perfect crime...almost! (Score:5, Funny)
the sinkhole was likely an attempted theft using underground tunnels to bore directly into the car museum. the coolest part is that the tunnel made itself using the sinkhole-ray and the cars fell into the hole and they just drove them off!
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I heard that's going to be in Fast and Furious 8
When will peoples learn... (Score:1)
Tragic - Good thing the 7:19 ZR1 survived (Score:3, Informative)
Too bad the Blue Devil ZR-1 [motortrend.com] was lost.
Proud owner of a 2011 Grand Sport, 666 RWHP...
Wow. (Score:1)
Thankyou for telling us the horsepower of your old-man car. How boring.
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The ZR1 that set the 7:19.63 Nurburgring lap time [autoguide.com] survived.
I'm not sure I understand. About a dozen other non-racing cars have done it faster. Is this ZR1 celebrated because it was the fastest lap time in a Corvette?
Re:Tragic - Good thing the 7:19 ZR1 survived (Score:5, Informative)
When it was done, it was the fastest time ever recorded, by any car. Since then, it has been broken many times, but never by a car close to its price.
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I was just there a couple months ago. Shame really, the dome was one of my favorite places in the museum.
Proud owner of a 2014 Corvette Stingray, 410 RWHP, soon to be 750.
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Proud owner of a 2014 Corvette Stingray, 410 RWHP, soon to be 750.
Are you sure that's enough horsepower? [/teasing]
Neko Case (Score:1)
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BURP ! ... please send more ketchup.
/ quote from the sarlacc in the Great Pit of Skydome
Intraterrestrial (Score:2)
Well I remember hearing some nut saying on TV that we have to worry more about intraterrestrials than extraterrestrials...
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Also, search for "hollow Earth" to find a bunch of stuff. Here is a somewhat "neutral" version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Why? (Score:2, Funny)
They fell into a sinkhole (Score:3, Funny)
God said "Fuck Corvette"
Clearly, this was the work of the devil. He's pure evil, so clearly he has no problem with "downloading" a few cars!
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God said "Fuck Corvette"
Clearly, this was the work of the devil. He's pure evil, so clearly he has no problem with "downloading" a few cars!
Well, he'd already downloaded some Porsches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... [wikipedia.org]
wow (Score:5, Funny)
KY judge rules gay marriage legal, &... (Score:2, Funny)
the netherworld swallows up seven symbols of hypermasculinity. // just sayin'... seriously, build your museum *on top of* a known cave system...
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The city is on top of a cave system. The major part of the western half of the state is too. Along with large parts of southern Indiana and New Mexico to name a few others.
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Repair would be filling in the hole. Rehabilitation would mean making that filling structurally sound and ensuring that it doesn't collapse again in the near future.
it's called "karst" (Score:2)
How do I get one of those (Score:3)
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Just make sure the mining and utility industry working under your bosses office is a deregulated as possible.
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Yes! Only deregulation and unrestricted free markets can get a Corvette into your under-building cave! Vote Ron Paul for free Corvettes from above!
Its sad, but they're only cars... (Score:5, Insightful)
At least no people got hurt, unlike that poor guy who had a sinkhole open up under his bedroom and died.
But you'd have thought if the original builders knew about sinkholes they've have either build a very thick concrete base slab and/or plenty of deep piles. Looking at that mess they did neither.
Re:Its sad, but they're only cars... (Score:5, Insightful)
Looking at that mess they did neither.
If you were looking for excellence in engineering, I think the Corvette museum would be a bad place to start.
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If you were looking for excellence in engineering, I think the Corvette museum would be a bad place to start.
LOL!! Mod this up! :D
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I think you need to take another look at their reliability ratings.
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Sinkholes are common in that area, but it really doesn't matter if you have a 12' thick concrete slab foundation if the sinkhole drops 100' or more.
I don't see how the depth of the hole matters at all. The width, however, matters a great deal.
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I don't see how the depth of the hole matters at all. The width, however, matters a great deal.
Sinkholes better than 100' wide are not unknown in that area. The largest cavern system in the world, Mammoth Cave, runs under that city and stretches out to the northeast.
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Just like the old days, before the garden of Eden and people were created, all the animals were vegetarians. They lived together then and they will again.
Good ole slashdot (Score:1, Informative)
One of the things you can count on slashdot for is a bunch of posts by sanctimonious twats pretending to know more than someone else. Yes there are caves under the museum, they cover a vast region of this part of the country. What you do not know is that across the highway they are building a speedway and moving tons of earth around. It is not the original builders lack of slabs and piles to blame (Although I got a laugh out of people suggesting that was the failure here), nor is it a lack of geologic aware
special offer (Score:3)
This is obviously the work of Deros.
Another video from skycam (Score:3)
Someone mentioned caves below the structure and I think you can make one to two of them out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... [youtube.com]
3:30 minutes of video yet only 15 seconds being of any value.
Uriah Prost46 put it better than I could of in a reply to the video.
"+YouOriginal I'm with that guy^^ Who gives a fuck??.. and on top of that, it was the shittiest Quad-copter not "helicopter" footage I've seen.. This asshole took two minutes trying to figure out how to fly it.. then spend a whole of 20 secs in the hole and didn't even check anything out.. Then the ass wipe didn't edit out the bullshit on the end, i guess he had to go ask three engineers how to turn the camera off.." -Uriah Prost46
Wrong Museum (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm not Christian, but the place looks pretty cool :D
Vettes (Score:2, Insightful)
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I've never heard anyone complain about Vette cornering. In fact, I've heard Vette's called the best budget sportscar you can get. I'd be interested in what you've heard otherwise.
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A muscle car sure. But a Vette is much too big to be a sports car.
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So, a Bugatti and a Lambo are muscle cars?
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Re: Vettes (Score:2)
Re: Vettes (Score:2)
Kentucky Museum (Score:2)
I didn't realize there were two museums in Kentucky.
Oh well. Rotten luck that the cars got hit.
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Obviously... (Score:3)
...this is why we must not have brown M&Ms.
It was Bugs (Score:4, Funny)
He made that wrong turn in Albuquerque again.
Again?!?!!? (Score:2)
"A sinkhole about 40 feet wide — and 30 feet deep — opened up inside the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY early Thursday morning, swallowing eight vehicles that were sitting inside. At least one of these cars is one of a kind, and due to its location the fire department allowed its removal. The sinkhole is remarkable in that it has left the surrounding ground which supports the circular structure intact, although that assessment may change up on investigation. Security footage from inside the museum shows the collapse as it happened."
Wow, this happened again on Thursday morning, just 1 day after it happened on Wednesday? That place is starting to look like swiss cheese!
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ask decent construction engineer... (Score:1)
... and shit like this doesn't happen....
and stop building structurally sensitive parts out of cardboard...