Because that's all people use the video function on their phones for apart from the odd youtube clip. Why should the manufacturers improve something that works well enough for the purpose it's intended for?

Wow! Big hole---lol about the zombies and throwing a pipe bomb!

I can't help but chuckle at the people that just wander over to the edge to peek in, especially when it collapses further. It never struck them that with such a significant cave-in, the part of the road they're standing on might also cave in?

This convo is about potholes guys not stupid ass phone camera's...http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/blink1.gif

back on topic - it's not a 'pot hole' but rather a 'sink hole' - do a quick search and you'll find some that are hundreds of times that size. Some appeared under houses and people have died.
Damned scary, IMO!

[rofl]
Indeed i was like WTF!? i thought my browser skipped a topic http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/cry1.gif

Indeed, its now a sinkhole

anyway, its in the papers today, before the hole appeared there was a very very noticeable dip, it actually had a pic of a car driving over it.

It finally gave way when a bus drove near/on it [rofl]

All the more reason to not stand so close to the damn thing.

Some other sinkholes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...hole-photo.jpg

Spanish news stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QT46...%2F1196&fmt=18
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhA5...eature=related


http://englishrussia.com/images/another_hole/3.jpg
Still going ...
http://englishrussia.com/images/another_hole/6.jpg
... and going ...
http://englishrussia.com/images/another_hole/11.jpg
More pic's here http://englishrussia.com/?p=1586

Really big ones
http://inlinethumb59.webshots.com/15...600x600Q85.jpg
http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/43...600x600Q85.jpg
http://inlinethumb09.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

" Sarisariñama Plateau Located in the Jaua-Sarisariñama National Park in Venezuela are some of the biggest sinkholes in the world. The sinkholes are 350 meters wide and 350 meters deep and are a geological mystery. The huge vertical walls have created an isolated ecosystem, with completely unique species of both flora and fauna. They’re so isolated in fact, that the sinkholes were only discovered in 1974. The scientific expedition was documented in David Nott’s book “into the lost world.”

WTH @ the first one WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![surrender]

My thoughts precisely. [surrender]

How do they form, and where does the ground go?

They normally form due to underground water movement (rivers and/or groundwater) disolving or carrying away the rock and/or soil, forming underground caverns or caves. When the weight above is too much for the roof of the cavern to support, it collapses forming the hole. In some instances the cavern may be quite deep and the hole will also be quite deep as it tries to fill the space.
Sometimes, though, they're the result of man's actions as they can occure above mines that have caved in. In one example, a mine was beneath a large lake and the lake bed collapsed into the mine and drained it completely - I'll see if I can find the article for you.

OK, use "lake drained into mine" to 'Google' and it'll come up with a bunch of links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Of8cm0kS8

This is the biggest pothole I have ever seen:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2n86hd4.jpg

The thread title was meant to be funny. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/unsure1.gif

Now that's what I call a pothole
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8025935.stm

[shocked]

[shocked][shocked]

Oh my word, and I thought Winnipeg's potholes were the worst. I couldn't imagine driving around and suddenly find myself in the ground cause I was looking at that seductive billboard instead of the road. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/laugh1.gif

Hell, even if you were paying attention, it would be hard to avoid a hole if the roadway just collapses below you.

On a side note, when does a pothole become a sinkhole?

Needs a very BIG bal.

Zombies come ! Pipebomb!


-- Zoey: TANK !!!!!