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Third body found in Guatemala sinkhole (WOW! pictures)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 25, 2007

Posted on 02/26/2007 11:39:52 AM PST by lizol

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To: GreenAccord

"Security officials were on guard for possible looters"

I don't get it. They were tryin' to steal the hole?


101 posted on 02/26/2007 1:04:35 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: lizol
It's happening all around the globe!


102 posted on 02/26/2007 1:05:36 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: lizol
330-ft. is over the length of a football field.

I used to get scared about the central FL sinkholes when I was kid. Seems my fear is not so irrational after all, huh? ;-)

103 posted on 02/26/2007 1:07:38 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: lizol

The Asshole of the world is Where?


104 posted on 02/26/2007 1:08:32 PM PST by Wraith (To have peace prepare for War.)
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To: lizol

I've never seen a hole in the ground that I thought would give me nightmares before.


105 posted on 02/26/2007 1:10:33 PM PST by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”)
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To: dead

Mon Dieu!


106 posted on 02/26/2007 1:11:46 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Hmph.

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

107 posted on 02/26/2007 1:16:14 PM PST by thulldud ("Para inglés, oprima el dos.")
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To: thulldud

I see scraps is a boy dog.


108 posted on 02/26/2007 1:18:13 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (If something I said angers you, you are must be ignorant, a sissy or a commie. Have a nice day.)
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To: lizol

Some ways to die are worse than others. How horrible for these people.


109 posted on 02/26/2007 1:25:06 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: GreenAccord

Looters?

Dude if someone wants to scale down a 330 foot deep hole to loot some sewage.. let him!


110 posted on 02/26/2007 1:25:44 PM PST by brothers4thID (Hillary: "We are going to take from you.. to provide for the common good")
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To: GreenAccord

I would not get within 2000 yards of that hole. Those officer just feet away, should have safety lines tied on their body.


111 posted on 02/26/2007 1:33:11 PM PST by agincourt1415 (The Sum of all Fears: Democrats running the war or trying to run away from the war on terror.)
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To: lizol; Mia T

I'm having a premonition right now at work that when Hillary Clinton loses her run for the Presidency in 2008,this is what is going to happen when she returns to her Massive House in Washington D.C.

Hell will be calling her home, of course. LOLOLOL


112 posted on 02/26/2007 1:33:54 PM PST by Pagey (Horrible Hillary Clinton is Bad For America, Bad For Business and Bad For MY Stomach!)
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To: lizol
AY CARUMBA!!!

DAT'SA SOME SINKHOLE!!!

113 posted on 02/26/2007 1:40:36 PM PST by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: dead

Dude, you ROCK!


114 posted on 02/26/2007 1:42:38 PM PST by SquirrelKing (_8 ( ])
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To: ReignOfError

If *I* owned the land, I'd sell tickets. On the other hand, DeSoto's Law probably holds here. In places like Guatemala, *nobody* can prove they own *anything*, and the government likes it that way...


115 posted on 02/26/2007 1:44:08 PM PST by ForegoneAlternative (The cost of anything is...)
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To: DungeonMaster
yeah, the pictures, coupled with this line from the article are going to give me nightmares, too!

"The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or other sinkholes could open."

Sounds like something from the Art Bell show!!
116 posted on 02/26/2007 1:47:23 PM PST by California74
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To: lizol

Wow, great pictures. Scary hole.


117 posted on 02/26/2007 1:48:47 PM PST by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: JewishRighter
"Security officials were on guard for possible looters"

I don't get it. They were tryin' to steal the hole?

Sinkholes don't follow plat maps. They don't always swallow structures whole. If one wall of a building falls and the others stay up, it's open season on the stuff inside.

118 posted on 02/26/2007 1:54:57 PM PST by ReignOfError (`)
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To: ReignOfError
If one wall of a building falls and the others stay up, it's open season on the stuff inside.

That explains why all the 52" Plasma TV's in the neighborhood are gone.

119 posted on 02/26/2007 1:56:12 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
That explains why all the 52" Plasma TV's in the neighborhood are gone.

Liquor, guns, cash, portable electronics and jewelry are easier to carry and easier to fence (except the cash, of course). If you're an opportunist, and this happens in your neighborhood, you can just waltz in and grab what you can carry. "I'm just getting my things out," you say. No one is around who can say that they aren't actually yours. The rightful owner is out of town, at work, or at the bottom of the hole.

120 posted on 02/26/2007 2:03:39 PM PST by ReignOfError (`)
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