Surveillance video shows moment when 100-foot-wide sinkhole swallows Alton, Illinois soccer field
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- A sinkhole swallowed bleachers, a light pole and 100 feet of soccer fields at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois on Wednesday.
Surveillance video showed the moment the sinkhole opened up and an area where benched players would sit during games disappeared beneath the earth.
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"Mike Bush has the night off"
Isn't he related to a Mike Hunt?
Her bush has the night off but it'll be back by tomorrow
@@nekoleramey4922😂that's what I heard too
Can't compete with the sinkhole, huh?
Well, I found what I was looking for
Who's going to let their kid play soccer on this field ever again regardless of what a mining inspector says?
Totally. Obviously the mine inspectors are incompetent.
Next week. The game must go on, this is just a new dimension to the play.
Exactly correct.
Yeah because the parents were not even informed. Now we have to check are there mines under everything we do
@@jalbert222 and greedy
Who built a soccer field over an active mine?!
Some dumb fool apparently 🤷
the same people that poke a well casing through a lake over a salt mine
I'm just going to state an unopioniated fact. There are mines under hundreds, if not thousands of towns and cities. I toured a mine many years ago. Our guide would stop the vehicle and say, "right now we're below the mall, next stop we'll be a below city hall....ect, ect...
There’s 800,000 acres of mines in Illinois there’s a lot of buildings and fields built over mines
Same ones that tunneled in New York synagogue
Building over a mine?!?! What brilliant group thought that was a good idea?
the mine spans a huge area of the city and some surrounding towns, you would think more research on potential collapse would have been done.
Hey! Mine your own business buddy!
This region has lots of mines in it. IF you do a little research, this area use to be a large producer of coal and lime. There are multiple abandoned coal and lime mines throughout the area. That is why if you by a home in the area, they check the maps to see if you need mine subsidence insurance. If you google mine maps of Madison County IL, you will see just how many mines there are in the area, with most being abandoned.
New Madrid fault activation
Michigan did the same 😂
The news man says he was told its safe out there. Yeah by the same people who said it was safe just a day before the collapse.
The air and water in East Palestine are also super duper safe. The guvmint said so.
@@crackerjack9320 East Palestine, Illinois?
@@seeharvester Ohio
😮 So, how can someone know if they're walking above an underground mine shaft? How common is it to have a public place above mine shafts?
Have you heard about Lake Peigneur? Check it out.
If it is safe enough for workers to be down there, it should be safe enough to play soccer on. However, they appear to have found out why strip mining is safer.
Go to the USGS or US geological survey website. They show, and you would be amazed by the active and abandoned underground mines throughout the US..
@jonetyson Do you not see the size of this sinkhole? Seems that your opinion regarding safety is debunked.
@@TiredMomma Go to the USGS site and it will show you abandoned and current subsurface mines..
The fact that the light pole was completely gone is scary! If anyone was there they would be dead for sure.
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of holesome people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital last month.
@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews
What size was the bullet hole?
that's not a sink hole, it's a suck hole, it got sucked down.
@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews Boooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
How is it the camera was pointed directly at the collapse?
"The Miners got out safely."
That tells me that a group of people had first-hand knowledge of a mine in the process of collapse.
It also tells me that nobody on the surface was warned...not the Cops, not Emergency services, not the School.
The operators of the mine knew something bad was going down, but said nothing.
They would get slapped with a fine…
Why ask and be denied when you can do without permission and apologize afterwards?
Mine collapses tend to happen pretty quickly, and often with little to no warning. Unless the mining company was negligent in the extreme (I.E: knowing structural braces are buckling, but ignoring it out of greed, et cetera), the cause may have been out of sight until it was too late, such as dugging into a wall with a trapped gas pocket and causing an explosion. As of right now, the mining company isn't going to say anything to the news worth a bent nickel, and likely won't until they find out just who to blame and for what.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Best regards.
@@ironhell813 Horrible ethics perhaps? Your question doesn't stand up. That kind of thinking is always wrong. I don't care if it works out legally or not. Its crap morality. That kind of shit is why the world sucks right now.
@@Project_-jq7jw yeah, it’s sucks but that’s the way the world is.
It is what it is… until it isn’t.
The mine inspectors will be looking for negligence, but honestly they may not have had more than few minutes warning themselves. Its not like they go down there and say "Well i hope a sinkhole doesnt open today!" They actively try to prevent such things from happening in the first place.
American land doesn’t support soccer fields
🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Eurocrap globalism has been eating away at America a long time.
😂😂😂
Is that's true, call it the real UK name: football.
@@2dheethbar in USA Football is game played mostly with hands
This is how it starts and then the Molemen attack.
Thanks my Cheerios just came out my nose....
😂
A fan of Underdog I see lol.
Or locust
Tell superman...or fantastic four...or both...
"What caused the ground to give way"
Couldn't POSSIBLY be the underground mine.
Aliens . . .
Too vigorous soccer playing....
notice that they casually mention there is an underground mine halfway past the video. that's an important detail they could have started off by saying. the sink hole didn't sprout out of nowhere.
and as others have commented, whose bright idea was to put a kid's sports field on top of an underground mine?
One week before our church was going to sign off on buying 7 acres in Huntsville, AL, I-565 had a large sinkhole collapse right by the property. Limestone erosion was the culprit...no mining activity. We did a geological survey and passed on the purchase, thankfully.
Praise GOD 👏
Nutballs
The issue that really needs fixing is to get rid of that awful artificial "turf". The pungent, smelly off-gassing from that stuff is horrible.
That and the car tire crumbles that give soccer players ovarian cancer by age 20.
It supposedly was banned in the 80s but obviously not.
Cheaper and easier maintenance than grass. Can play year round on it.
Nah, that's actually the smell from all the soccer moms farting from being on their keto diets.
When and why did we abandon grass fields? What are we supposed to do with all this unnecessary waste?
Throw it in the hole?
I hate playing on artificial turf. Too hot, and more prone to turning ankles, and other injuries. Plus football games in the mud are the most memorable, and exciting. Sadly most playing fields are going to artificial turf in my area too, mostly for ease of maintenance.
I couldn’t help but wonder if this collapse would have occurred if you had grass roots stabilizing the soil, and absorbing the water that was falling on it. Probably would have still collapsed in this case, but it is amazing what plant roots can do for the structural integrity of soil.
This was rock that collapsed, not soil. The root zone of grass is pretty shallow.
I have a great idea. How about NEVER building anything on top of an underground mine ever again?
I swear she said, "My bush has the night off." 😂
everybody needs a break sometimes
That’s what I heard? Anyhoo, new Super Bowl? Or dive training pool?
lol I heard that too
Mike Bush
😂💯🎯🍑
Why the hell is there an active mine right under a soccer field??!
Probably an old abandoned mine.
@@michaellyczak9337 Nope it was an active Mine.
@@martinpalm5 What are they mining ?
@@michaellyczak9337 They said limestone.
How does a soccer field benefit the economy ?
It’s weird how it was an almost perfectly circular sink hole.
What shape did you expect?
What got me was how centered it was in the field. Looks more like target practice
@@tonyp9179I would have expected more of a gash shape.
Most sinkholes are circular. That's how the water that carves out the holes flows. It finds a center point before going down.
@samdherring um... water dosnt drain straight down. They still flow parallel... it just washes the sediment from underneath... and then creates a funnel from the collapsing earth above
Imagine watching your kids' game, and they just disappear 😮. This is terrifying.
It would have looked like the stadium scene in the Dark Knight Rises, only with 8yr olds. lmao
Some of the parents are glad that field is gone. Tired of soccer.
Well it was all caught on film for evidence
I should feel terrible for laughing at this.... should, but I don't...
You just gotta worry about Graboids, then.
First time something interesting ever happened on a soccer field.
When the fans take to fighting is pretty exciting.. lol
FTW
As opposed to any American sport. Talk about dull.
😂😂😂😂😂
Goal!!
Weird how those sinkholes are perfectly round.
Weird the camera is pointed at the hole?
Idiocracy is a documentary...
Brawndo, it's got what AstroTurf craves.
Plenty of ‘tards living kickass lives. Like my ex wife; she’s a pilot.
I have left this exact same comment many times. Looks like I gonna have Frito send you a cease and desist letter.
Have you ever considered having an original thought instead of parroting what others are saying?
@@Carah-sq6lh Have you ever considered having an original thought instead of parroting what others are saying?
why are mines allowed under cities ??🤔 or who builds a city over a mine ?
do dumb things get dumb results ..
Detroit MI has a monumental salt mine under it and the lake. Can you imagine that kind of sinkhole?
Common sense, something that most people lack in modern times.
Often the mines were there before the houses. People who live where there are a lot of old mines know to check the maps before buying. I would bet that the school is not located over the mine.
Mine shafts aren't much different from subway tunnels. Who builds cities over subway tunnels? Everyone.
Not a lot of difference between a mine and a subway.
Limestone, water erosion and bad mining practices is my opinion.
Mining in general 😂
@@deborahwhit118you'd have nothing in general without mining in general.
No, it was actually...building a soccer field on top of it.
No just soccer practice can damage anything
It's certainly shouldn't be a mystery, I'm thinking you are absolutely correct.
A hole under the field needed to be filled in...nature and physics stepped in to do the work. But now we have a putting green that a blind man can sink a putt.
Well I just told my boy I noticed small sinkholes been appearing around the whole city in Galesburg IL
Most of these mines started on the outskirts of these Midwestern cities after WWI, so as decades passed, town infrastructure grew and was built over these mines, instead of moving away from them. Those who took bribes to overlook the construction are long dead now. But the ghost towns they will create will become their family's legacy. It's no wonder that more people are moving away from these cities and towns faster than people moving in or breeding in the area. Anyone moving to these towns today will likely be stuck there forever. For example, this sinkhole just resulted in the depreciation of every home in Alton. And when your home is worth less than the purchase price, they'll seldom afford to move.
@@carolinematusevich889 The city official talks like it is a small thing like a water main break. His tone of voice is, "We'll get it fixed next week and have the kids playing on the field and not miss a season." But, that's his job, to spin calm and happy.
Galesburg is completely falling apart. This entire city is becoming undrivable. But if you ever want to know if your city officials are corrupt scumbags just look at the roads. Supposedly they're doing road work this summer but it's just a couple roads on the north side as usual
@@HiThereFaceHere You guys now have the most impressive pot holes in the nation.
I'm from Southern Illinois and played on that field twice in High-school. This is absolutely crazy to me.
Maybe it was you stomping around on the field a bit too vigorously?
May the odds be ever in your favor.
They fn never are…
Did she say "My bush has the night off"?
ha ha that's what I heard. Probably "Mike Bush"?
I thought so too, then scolded myself for being immature. 🤣
Her what has what??
She said Mike Bush 😂
Good thing his name was not Mike hunt 😂
Stupidity at its finest. There's a shaft underground but we don't know why the top gave way.
What went wrong? You're digging out large cavities underground and the surface became unstable. What did you think was going to happen?
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of holesome people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital in May.
Why, why would you mine a 150 under a soccer field?
The mine was there first.
Soccer balls are mined there
Why,why,why shut down a perfectly good mine for a soccer field
@@michaelashley2855 in ground trampoline
When you mine under towns , especially being limestone mine,I cannot see how they wouldn't expect this to happen eventually.
Man so many sink holes lately
A panel of geniuses will be created to explain what should be obvious.
This just shouldn't happen, kids play there, completely unacceptable!
Maximization of revenue usually supersedes any sense of safety to these ingrates, unfortunately. They drain every natural resource hastily when it is possible, and then have the audacity to all simultaneously refuse to take the blame once some unsafe event that pertains to their cash cow finally goes wrong. Not shocking or surprising, still upsetting though. I wish that that the hyper consumeristic people could have their capitalism without having profit supersede people in general, but in our shared reality, that is not possible unfortunately. Even worse that when given the choice it seems most people are content choosing pointless material things over the health and safety of people. Imagine, if money was all the sudden obsolete and deemed worthless, humans would have to find something else to base their lives on, well everyone else anyway lol.
the mine was there first they should have NEVER put a field there in the first place
God bless AMERICA😂😂😂😂 where the rich are rich and fuck everyone else 😂 puppets
And why shouldn't this happen?? Don't you know that money is more important than any child's life here in America when it involves the rich businesses 😂 don't you ever question what rich people do and what your government allows😂
@@tripsix263 No, mines should not be left in an unsafe condition, which this clearly was. Clearly corners were cut when it came to safety, and that is completely unacceptable.
Sinkholes are round. Flying saucers are round. Coincidence??
the earth is round but don't tell that to a flat earther
So let me get this straight. They built a park and sports field over an active limestone mine?
Well, they built Detroit over a salt mines 😂😂😂
Yup dey did
Like all subsidence it filled a ~100 foot diameter cave that was slightly deeper than the over-laying strata was thick. And the surface to the debris of collapse is 80% cave height.
Plus its limestone, well im sure the rain will widen that hole real quick and make it easier for them to do their inspection.
You don't have to be an engineer to know you should never build over any kind of mine.
The entire town sits on top of the mine. Leave while you can.
The what if's are to hard to even imagine... holy crap !
Where did the light pole go, I did not see it in the drone footage over the sinkhole.
“What those soccer players don’t realize is, THEY ARE PLAYING ON A LIMESTONE MINE!!!”
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of holesome people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital in May.
@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews Holeymoley
@@defconkev holey mackerel
As the father of daughters, this is my second worst nightmare involving a pole.
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of hole-some people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital last month.
I wouldn't be standing anywhere near that place for a long time.
In Texas, limestone is mined by digging a hole in the ground. It becomes a quarry. Most of the quarries look like a mini Grand Canyon. Nobody is ever working underground and we never have sinkholes because of it.
It is the first time I’ve ever heard of digging tunnels for limestone. I wonder if something got lost in translation. Perhaps they are digging through limestone but are mining for something else.
same in Iowa. Hundreds of open limestone pits along all the rivers. Feed for the concrete companies, one of the biggest industries in the world. Also used on the many thousands of farm roads. Dig locally to avoid expensive long haul shipping. Limestone dissolves in water so it's no surprise to me the underground mine collapsed.
Dey got those in Illinois too
The light pole was too heavy.
These cameras just happen to be pointed at all of these random events. 🤦♂️
I’ve got a sinking feeling about this.
0:15 did she say her bush has the night off?
Wtf 😳
Yep. Excessive chafing leading to a loss of service? :o)
You would think a professional announcer would have learned either to pause between the first and last names, or to call her colleague Michael.
It was a close shave.
Mike Bush. He replaced Mike Hunt in the '80s.
Her bush has the night off?
Wait, men were in the mine? You mean a mine is actively operating under a kids field?
How to make an entire newsclip out of 15 secs worth of actual news.
TREMMORS
LOL, yes 🙌
I heard Bane was responsible...
Bane blew that field up 😂
“We come here not as conquerors but as liberators, to return control of Gotham to the people”
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of holesome people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital last month.
I heard there used to be a bar in the mine but it was shut down for serving miners
You mean its not Global warming well i never
Dems say it's Trump's fault. Not a joke. Repeat the line. Pause.
Why is there a light pole in the middle of the playing field?
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of holesome people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital last month.
They don't seem to conveigh the seriousness of the surface cave in in the news cast
This is not a sink hole. It’s a mine collapse.
Clearly the result of fracking.
Clearly...
Water happened.
They obviously drilled the light post hole too deep.
If only they had used better quality AstroTurf, they would have had a huge trampoline!
This hole situation sucked, there are a lot of hole-some people in Alton, I think the hole community will come together hole heartedly to rebuild this field. This town has already gone through a hole lot with the shooting at the hospital last month.
@@GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews holy frijoles!
Mike Bush has the night off. Mike Hunt filling in.
😂 😂 . Back to you Ben Dover.
Please stop!!!!
"Now with the weather report, we go to Pretty Beaver."
The fact that I used to referee kids soccer on this field is disturbing. Also, there is a huge rock quarry down the road from this park that’s been there for quite some time. I don’t think that’s a shock to anyone who is from the area. Does it make sense that there’s a mine under the park? No. But are we surprised by the capitalistic greed? I’m not. It’s always about the “bottom line.”
Idiocracy is a prophecy.
At 0:17. Did she say her bush has the night off. A bit inappropriate I think. 😂😂😂
Yes 😳😂
See! Even nature thinks soccer's stupid.
Based, lol
Right! Soccer should …, ahh,…mine it’s own business?
I bet you’re a tRump supporter
Nature is just trying to show us how to make soccer interesting: random collapsing holes in the fields during the games.
@@jamesmacleod9382 I mean, it's still more interesting than baseball...
Is "subsidence" the new way to say "mine collapse?" I don't think anyone will notice.
Good to know that "the area is safe". Darned if I don't feel better!
The devil's doormat.
Rightfully so 😎
Why did I think of Resident Alien?
It’s your age. If you were older it would be Quattermass and the Pit :o)
Who the hell was in charge of making decisions to build a sports field over a mine????????????????????? Geeze the stupidity in this country is through the roof!
A seemingly perfectly symmetrical hole in the precise middle of two soccer fields. What are the odds?
Why would there be a mine under ground right where people live and play??? Looks like a big lawsuit!!!
Why are people dumb enough to live and play over a mine ?
You mean it's gonna take awhile for engineers to say that it was due to excessive rains and the ground being waterlogged? And why is there a mine directly under where people live & play? 🙄
Pay no mind. The cognitive dissonance among those living in Alton is rich.
Because that's where the minerals are?
Built a soccer pitch over a mine, Americans never cease to amaze me week in & week out! 🤦♂
No great loss, it was a soccer field.
Even god hates soccer.
Good grief, this is some nightmare stuff.
Who the hell authorized a child’s athletic field on top of an active mine? It seems like the Alton zoning authorities have some questions to answer.
The Earth is imploding
Fake -- the area isn't safe! The sinkhole is real footage though.
What could be the purpose of calling real footage with real reporting and people saying "it should be safe but we are waiting on the experts and work will be done" fake? What part of this is fake?
@@Kayleigh_McKee Clearly corners were cut when comes to safety; if they're willing to put lives at risk, and kids at that, why wouldn't they also lie?
A soccer field??
A soccer field is GRASS and this seems to be some kind of CARPET!
"Subsidence in the mine". Well subsidence is gradual,so if there was some slow actions of the earth in the mine directly below a public place why wasn't the public notified? How much of the town has mine under it?
I like how the security camera outlined the movement.
"I'm Ann Alred and my bush has the night off" " So Holdem, what happened? 'I have no idea'" That about sums up this newscast LMAO
Who the F approved the construction of a park over the top of an abandoned mine ? Genius…
This is no mining incident. This is part of the New Madrid fault line. Sink holes preclude major earthquakes. They don't want to have themselves a panic on the fourth of July.
this is why, you always make sure you own the mineral rights
Its clear the mine was not engineered, or more likely not operated properly. The fact a mine is functioning (or properly deactivated) under your feet has nothing to do with it. Completely safe and environmentally acceptable if it’s done right, obviously this one wasn’t. All you non-miners, educate yourselves 🦺👷♂️.
maybe they can put some big sheets of plywood over it and then cover with astroturf so people can still play
Yeah that’ll work, probably best add some straws & elastic bands just to be sure 🤔
I'm sure there are kids who will want to pretend that this sinkhole is a Sarlacc Pit so they can pretend to be characters from Return Of The Jedi or something.
Right in the middle huh… interesting. If only there was a way to determine where possible sink holes could appear.
0:17 "My bush has the night off." How does that work exactly?