# 8 Corvettes fall in a hole **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169 "2014-02-12T18:14:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/1 "2014-02-12T18:14:44Z")
A 1962 and seven others have fallen into a sinkhole which opened under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. > **[Watch sinkhole swallow 8 Corvettes at museum](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/corvette-museum-sinkhole/5417171/)** > > The hole opened up early Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/2 "2014-02-12T18:17:07Z")
We always knew they were too heavy. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/3 "2014-02-12T18:27:58Z")
Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/4 "2014-02-12T18:39:07Z")
Here is the list: 1962 black Corvette 1984 PPG pace car 1992 white 1 millionth Corvette 1993 ruby red 40th anniversary Corvette 1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette 2009 white 1.5 millionth Corvette 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors I wonder if they are going to try to recover them. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/5 "2014-02-12T19:02:31Z")
So it’s a money-shaped hole you throw Corvettes in. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/6 "2014-02-12T19:10:38Z")
Mother Nature went down to the museum and threw a quarry in. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/7 "2014-02-12T19:23:52Z")
The hole was described a “massive”, but was probably smaller than average. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/8 "2014-02-12T19:23:58Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I wonder if they are going to try to recover them. It’s hard to see why this would not be attempted. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/9 "2014-02-12T19:39:04Z")
A hole, you say? I’m sure the authorities are looking into it. Seriously, what is it with sinkholes lately? One opened up in the central reservation of a [motorway](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m2-sinkhole-video-motorway-remains-3134481) in England just the other day. And before that one appeared overnight and swallowed a [car](http://www.davidlidington.com/news/walters-ash-sinkhole-update) in the driveway of a house. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/10 "2014-02-12T20:18:48Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > It’s hard to see why this would not be attempted. Safety. When that sinkhole swallowed up a person in his house last year, there was no attempt to retrieve the body - the ground was too unstable to risk it. ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/11 "2014-02-12T20:21:23Z")
\>\> 8 Corvettes fall in a hole Usually this sort of thing starts with: a priest, a nun, and Bill Clinton walk into a bathroom… ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/12 "2014-02-12T20:24:46Z")
I could cry! Shut up you Ford-lovers! That’s all you are! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/13 "2014-02-12T20:24:55Z")
> [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](#): > > \>\> 8 Corvettes fall in a hole > > Usually this sort of thing starts with: a priest, a nun, and Bill Clinton walk into a bathroom… Aww! You beat me to it! I was going to try to come up with something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/14 "2014-02-12T20:28:21Z")
So eight Corvettes fall into hell. “Well,” Satan sighed, “there goes the neighborhood.” Why did the eighth Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the seventh Corvette. Why did the seventh Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the sixth Corvette. Why did the sixth Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the fifth Corvette. Why did the fifth Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the fourth Corvette. Why did the fourth Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the third Corvette. Why did the third Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the second Corvette. Why did the second Corvette drive into the hole? It was following the first Corvette. Why did the first Corvette drive into the hole? Who knows why Vette drivers do any of the shit they do? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/15 "2014-02-12T21:07:29Z")
Bowling Green is near cave country; Mammoth Cave is not very far away. What a shock to have a sinkhole form right at the museum! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/16 "2014-02-12T21:58:24Z")
It was Steve Irwin, digging up from purgatory, seeking revenge on the stingray that killed him. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/17 "2014-02-12T22:53:08Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > The hole was described a “massive”, but was probably smaller than average. _Smaller than average?!!_ This happens often enough that there’s an _average?!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/18 "2014-02-12T22:57:05Z")
…and the man turned to the genie & said, “No, you idiot! The Drivers!!!” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/19 "2014-02-12T23:31:00Z")
Maybe the cars will be featured in an expansion of [Kentucky Down Under](http://www.kdu.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/20 "2014-02-12T23:53:59Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Bowling Green is near cave country; Mammoth Cave is not very far away. What a shock to have a sinkhole form right at the museum! What a shock to have 8 Corvettes suddenly appear in Mammoth Cave! But I guess it won’t be a surprise. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169.md?page=2)