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Brooklyn Parking-Lot Sinkhole Eats Garbage Truck: PHOTOS

Onlookers watched helplessly as the truck sank deeper and deeper into a Flatbush parking lot.

A private sanitation truck became stuck on a parking deck near the Flatbush Target before 5 a.m. on Tuesday morning when a massive sinkhole in the lot swallowed its hind wheels, according to reports from the scene.

Thankfully, WABC reporter Kala Rama was on hand to live-tweet the slow, dramatic sink.


Aerial photos showed the truck’s wheels perched dangerously on the delicate edges of the sinkhole.

According to a reporter for News 12 Brooklyn, the truck eventually had to be pulled from its hole with a crane.


No injuries were reported.


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