Girl swallowed by sidewalk

[gato]

Watch out for crumbling sidewalks. Those who can't access Youtube will have to satisfied with a short clip on MSNBC. The videos on Youku only show the rescue and omit the surveillance video of her falling into the hole.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2012/04/24/19670516.html

Girl swallowed by sidewalk

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/47155170#47155170

Video

A teenage girl fell through a sidewalk in Xi'an, the capital of the China's northwest Shaanxi Province, after she failed to notice warning signs. A video of the girl walking along the sidewalk and using her cellphone on March 25 has been posted to YouTube.

A teenage girl walking on a sidewalk in Xi'an, the capital of the China's northwest Shaanxi Province, fell six metres into a sinkhole.

The video of the accident, that happened on March 25 but just started making the rounds on YouTube this week, shows the sidewalk suddenly crumbling under the girl's feet, swallowing her up.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzcxMzAyNTYw.html

视频: 人行道塌陷困住少女 群众消防队全力救援 直播西安

There was also another recent incident in Beijing where a woman fell into a sidewalk hole and was burned by the boiling water inside.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzc1Nzg1Mzky.html

视频: 北京人行道塌陷 女子跌入热水坑

[jbradfor]

Giving Kunming a run for its money! [EDIT: I mean Liuzhou.]

after she failed to notice warning signs.

What warning signs? I missed it too in the video.

When watching the masses of people crowding around the hole, I was waiting for the hole to get bigger and drop the whole lot down.

[gato]

There were two posts near that area with the weak cement, but it's not clear what they were for.

[jbradfor]

The posts are clearly there to stop people from driving on the sidewalk; the main part in front is a driveway, and you can see an identical set of posts on the other side of the driveway.

I guess there could have been signs posted on the posts, but I too would likely have missed them, mobile in hand or not.

[gato]

Yeah, you are right. The posts are at fender level, just enough to block cars. I don't see any other warning signs. She seem to hold up ok after falling 6 meters. That's about twice the height of a basketball rim. The driver did say that she was initially unconscious. Good to see that someone helped out right away.

[jbradfor]

Yeah, I meant to comment on that as well. It's good to see someone rushing so quickly to help. So far down and unconscious, if none of the people that actually saw her fall down went to help, she could have been there a while.

[Meng Lelan]

After the tot Yueyue was run over and ignored by so many last year, maybe this year will be different in that bystanders are not so indifferent.

[icebear]

The story of the girl falling into a pit of boiling water in Beijing is terrifying.

[jkhsu]

That woman in Beijing is dead. Here's the update that includes a similar incident in Dalian where another woman fell into a thermal well and died.

http://usa.chinadail...nt_15119259.htm