Sinkhole: 1, Cop: 0

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Mar 21, 2009 4:40PM

Still via ABC 7

We've heard a lot about potholes around the area lately (and the city's failure to fill some of them) but we've got nothing on Des Plaines. An officer drove his car up onto the sidewalk to test for "dead zones" on the sidewalk" only to have a sinkhole open up and swallow his car. Authorities say the area had been hit hard by last September's flooding and erosion was more than likely responsible for the sinkhole. [ABC 7]