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Title: Well, well, well?
Post by: Big_Stu on November 30, 2012, 10:19:00 AM
There's been a fair few "sink holes" in recent weeks, including the Ohio one very recently; but is it just my eyes that's seeing bricks built in a circle, that suggest this one.........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14252489
...... is an old well that's been covered over in the past?
Title: Re: Well, well, well?
Post by: Basvarken on November 30, 2012, 10:36:47 AM
looks like a poorly excuted photoshop job to me...
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Post by: uwe on November 30, 2012, 10:41:49 AM
I suspect Anglo-American POWs. They tunnelled everywhere.
Title: Re: Well, well, well?
Post by: Big_Stu on November 30, 2012, 10:48:49 AM
Quote from: uwe on November 30, 2012, 10:41:49 AM
I suspect Anglo-American POWs. They tunnelled everywhere.

Can't be that, there was a bed covering it, not a stove.
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Post by: Pilgrim on November 30, 2012, 12:37:15 PM
I think I see brick lining - looks like an old well that was under the building, and the covering fell in....

No stove!! I like that!!
Title: Re: Well, well, well?
Post by: Dave W on November 30, 2012, 07:07:23 PM
Sure is fake looking. If it's real, as Al said, the bricks prove it's no sinkhole. Don't build your house over an old mineshaft or well.
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Post by: godofthunder on December 01, 2012, 06:49:22 AM
Yeah gotta be a well.
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Post by: Lightyear on December 01, 2012, 09:55:02 PM
Yep, well.  I read something recently about a guy finding a well under his living room floor in London - turned about to be a several hundred year old well.
Title: Re: Well, well, well?
Post by: Big_Stu on December 02, 2012, 09:03:44 AM
Quote from: Lightyear on December 01, 2012, 09:55:02 PM
Yep, well.  I read something recently about a guy finding a well under his living room floor in London - turned about to be a several hundred year old well.

I used to live just outside a village called Lasswade near Edinburgh, Scotland. They were renovating a local bar to build a restaurant area & found a well that was also a few 100 years old. They had the water tested & last I heard it was going to be bottled & sold from the bar.
There's a small castle where I live now that has a well under the cafe floor, I don't know why they don't do the same.