That Sinking Feeling

This bad weather and flooding that is affecting the UK at the moment is causing another problem too.

 

Sinkholes.

 

And they seem to be attacking cars.

 

The first one, reported by the BBC, hit Buckinghamshire at the start of the month.

 

It swallowed a VW Lupo.

Next, also reported bt the BBC, our motorway network was attacked.  The M2 to be precise, although it was the Central Reservation that opened up so no cars got taken. 

Today, however, The Guardian reports a very audacious car-swallowing act over in Kentucky, USA.

 

A total of eight Corvettes spanning 45 years went down a hole in the National Corvette Museum: 

I like the way the reader's comments in the Guardian article diverge onto discussing building foundations.  If it had been a Telegraph or Mail article, there would be heated arguments going on about American Cars or how local councils don't do enough to help flood victims.

 

I also like the comment added by reader Zoomer who, responding to the fact that a Corvette Museum exists in the first place, says, "It used to be profitable but they're in a hole now."

 

Maybe we need to get the Top Gear team on the case.

 

Everyone laughed at them in the last series when they invented the Hovervan to cope with floods in the West Country and now we have floods in the West Country.

 

Now we need cars that will hover or maybe be completely enveloped in airbags as soon they find themselves suddenly dropping.

 

Jeremy?