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Caught on Video: Shrieking Reporter Flees Massive Sinkhole During Live TV Broadcast

Massive Sinkhole Opens Up Behind Reporter During Live Television Broadcast

Americans have heard a lot about “roads and bridges” in recent months, primarily in the context of infrastructure spending or how they are somehow responsible for the success of small-business owners.

In Taiwan, it seems, people are talking about “roads and bridges” because the roads are opening up and swallowing people whole.

A reporter was recently on location to explain a deadly sinkhole where a man earlier fell and died of his injuries, when a second sinkhole emerged and justifiably terrified the reporter.

Watch the unbelievable footage, below:

Security cameras also caught the first sinkhole appearing, catching a man completely by surprise as the ground collapsed from under his feet.

According to reports, the sinkholes are likely caused by the recent torrential rains, which are weakening the integrity of the ground beneath the roads.  At least five have died because of the rain.

Here is footage of the first sinkhole:

Last week, far-left Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren released a campaign ad urging the United States to follow Asia’s lead on infrastructure spending, saying our competitors are “building the future.”

Though she certainly could not have predicted last week’s events, it‘s a pretty safe bet that most Americans don’t envision a future where the potholes are so large one could use a bridge to cross them.

One commenter asked: “What is this road made from?  Plaster and cardboard?”

This post has been updated.

Comments (56)

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  • symphonic
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 9:30am

    Something as simple as a GOPHER HOLE can do this. I know, I had a driveway that went over a creek, but the gopher holes joined the creek water and that was the end of it. 20 feet of driveway sinking into a huge hold 10 feet deep. This walk is near a river, so…

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  • sbenard
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:04am

    They repeated it enough times!

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  • grannyrecipe
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:47am

    Gee wiz, if we wanted to really torture them knot heads at Guantanamo we should just make them watch that first video for 24 hours a day until they crack.

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  • Daddymac10
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:57am

    Elizabeth Warren, you were saying again?? This Cherokee wannabe is the ultimate idiot. Wouldn’t be surprised if Massachusetts elect her anyway…

    Bachmann / West 2012 …write-in

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    • RSHLUVER
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:14am

      The DNC is making her a keynote speaker. She could win.

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  • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:22am

    By the way Blaze, would you like me to set up a commenting format for you? If not, why not switch to a supplied commenting service like disqus or intense debate? NOT fadebook. Your commenting system sucks big time.

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    • Edward
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:18am

      no kidding .. this site is the worst commenting style ever

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    • neither1
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:14pm

      It’s the worst!
      Hello Blaze? It’s 1995 calling. We’d like our commenting system back.

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    • Iusetohaveacatbutthedogatehim
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 8:28pm

      Oh come on. Then they would be like Mediaite. We can’t have that now can we?

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  • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:19am

    Sinkholes due to rain are normal. Water finds a way in under the surface structure and then flows through or around infrastructure. Electrical conduits, gas lines, telephone, etc are buried in sand so that when you have to dig them up, you are able to find them easily and it provides a good sound bed to support them. Problem is, once the water finds these structures, it does not take long for the water to remove that sand and then nothing is supporting the fill or soil above it. I have dealt with this numerous times as a site supervisor.

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  • tbo
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:59am

    I see the problem. The sidewalk and the buildings were built too close to the water/river. The depth of the retaining wall did not extend deep enough below the scour line of the river. Once the scour went below the bottom of the wall even a small hole under the wall would create negative pressure such as a straw and draw the saturated soils under the sidewalk into the river creating a cavern under the concrete. The utilities were installed and compacted so it was not insitu material under the sidewalk making it more prone to the removal of the dirt. The concrete sidewalk has compressive strength but little tensile strength. When the man walked on top of the sidewalk the concrete was put under tensile stress and caved in. I see this all the time when the scour protection wall is not deep enough.

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    • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:43am

      A lot of the times, the infrastructure itself is the problem. When ever you disturb the natural fill, you give water an access point. The water follows that structure to an underlying area where things like the conduit has been buried with sand. It only takes minutes for water to infiltrate that area and remove that subsystem. I built one site with two large commercial buidings where we tied the downspouts into the site drainage lines. Well, that was a mistake! Of course in the area rain was not usually a problem, the first rain of course was like 4 inches in about 2 hours. Normal rain for the entire year is like 7 inches. Downline covers for my site drainage, blew like fountains. What a MESS. Took me a few day to redesign the drainage.

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  • mharry860
    Posted on August 5, 2012 at 12:10am

    Wow, those Chinese sure know how to build stuff. I wonder how long before those ghost cities just fall to the ground?

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    • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:45am

      This is a normal problem in all construction. It is not just a problem there. Don’t get your panties in a wad. Mother Nature is a bitch sometimes, no matter what you do, she can always teach you a lesson or three.

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    • Krutch
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:15pm

      @ david
      You ought to see the photos of bridge projects done in mainland china. They use garbage and trash for fill. I don’t have the link, but I have seen it on-line where these structures have failed. Thin concrete walls back filled literally with the contents of trash and garbage.
      And these people are going to build bridges in Calif. and Alaska????

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  • cmr396
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:35pm

    I’m very happy that reporter is safe. but does this video reminds me of a famiy guy scene lol. It repeats and repeats lmao!

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  • edjohnson8971
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:33pm

    Now know how to say,”oh s**t” in Chinese

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  • Impenitent
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:51pm

    like Ninja Warrior needed another obstacle…

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:21pm

      The guy that died likely would have made it. He turned around and sealed his fate. Had he kept walking straight, he most likely would have not fell. And after he did fall he had about 50,000lbs of bricks and cement fall on top of him. I don’t see how soil can collapse and compress as fast as it did. It went from being supportive to being as dense as water in about 1 second.

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  • YallComeBack
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:23pm

    You know, I hate it when very very interesting video is so hard to see important details.

    I’m really wishing that Japanese station had played a few MORE repetitions of the incident.

    Then I might have been able to see what happened.

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  • FREEDOMoverFEAR
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:15pm

    Me so scared, me run long time. “Ahhh Racism, you do racism? I do racism too!”

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  • kbstreet1
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:03pm

    Is the road suspended? In the still picture something looks like a door.

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    • ManThong
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:21pm

      Yeah, that looks more like a vaulted sidewalk collapse,,

      Rain likely contributed, but it did not look like there was much holding the sidewalk up.

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:49pm

    Comrades we have this happening in this country also, only usually not quite as bad.
    We’ve had main streets shut down for weeks because of sinkholes usually caused by a waterline break that went unreported or unseen because the water was flowing into a sewer without breaking through to the surface of the ground.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:45pm

    I would shreek too but in English!

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  • gosutag
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:23pm

    Hey ignorant users! This is TAIWAN. NOT China.

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  • Pat_in_NC
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:55pm

    I don’t think Taiwan considers itself as in China.

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    • gosutag
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:22pm

      They don’t. I have a lot of Taiwanese friends and every one of them despises China.

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:27pm

      The Blaze is becoming more and more as idiotic as Yahoo. TAIWAN IS NOT PART OF THE P.R.C!!!! Don’t these editors read feeds before posting them? Yahoo is famous for totally screwing up and now it seems The Blaze is going the same way.
      Hey Glenn with all respect, start cracking the whip over there, before you and Yahoo are competing for the most moronic new reporting groups.

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    • rickroland
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:57pm

      Yeah, but China considers it China, and that’s all that really matters, for now.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:47pm

    Made in China.

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:46pm

    The lefties who support China are so uneducated.

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  • RoAdFiXeR
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:26pm

    not as much soft soil…if you don’t connect the tile correctly a small leak under pressure turns into a big hole very quickly and if that hole is covered by a road or sidewalk you will never know its there until its collapse…

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:19pm

    How long until Americas eco-terrorists and eco-extremists declare the sinkholes are due to global warming?

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    • americansfightingforcommonsense
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:34pm

      Looks like the Obama administrations economy plan. “Falling out from underneath their feet”.
      LOL

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:51pm

      Great. Now we know there are holes in China. Can the Blaze cover stories like the fires in Oklahoma as well before they become the Enquirer of the internet?

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:16pm

    Bushs fault.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:00pm

    Yeah, let’s be more like China. Let’s not take core samples before building a road over soft spots, so eventually, it will sink.

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  • hatchetjob
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:51pm

    Why can’t those sinkholes happen under Congress and the White House?

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    • IMCHRISTIAN
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:59pm

      What you believe in miracles?

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    • pissantno.10
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:13pm

      well they do under the treasury

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    • Lee_in_PA
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:44pm

      That entire area was a swamp, AKA Foggy Bottom. the best we can hope for is for everyhing to sink. All the hot air is holding them up I guess.

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    • clareee
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:50pm

      Loved your reply!

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