Rogue hole

A couple of weeks ago this hole appeared in the road outside my flat about 50 centimetres in width. Initially when I noticed it I ignored it as a normal hole in the road kind of thing. However a few days later as I was walking home from work I saw some kid regarding this hole and he stuck his leg in it. Not just his foot and part of his leg but his entire leg up to his thigh. This really gave me major flashbacks to Stephen Kings It when the kid sticks his arm down the drain and the scary clown thing grabs him and pulls him in.

Anyway I went over for a closer look and this hole was way deep. Seriously I couldn’t see the bottom. The thing is too that there were no paint markings round the hole or any warnings about it like you would expect with road works etc. especially when it is something quite so deep. It appeared randomly one day without any build up having previously been an unremarkable chunk of hardstanding.

Recently a metal plate and four funny little cones have appeared on and around it as if the Council has noticed it and decided it might be a nice idea eventually to do something about it.


Thing is, how did this hole get there? It wasn’t previously a patched up bit of road, just a normal bit of hardstanding which was actually in a decent condition. But now it has this funny narrow but super deep hole in it. So I am thinking how could it have got there and the only conclusion I could draw that it might have been a meteorite hit. Seriously how else could you account for a narrow but super deep rogue hole?