OFFSIDE OFFSIDE Authorities looking into big park sinkhole
A large hole has appeared in a road in Moss Bank Park, following a weekend of heavy raining.
Groundsman Stephen Murphy, who has been in the job for around six years, said he had never seen anything like it during his time there.
He said: “It is a bit of a new one this - we still don’t know what has caused it yet. It is just one of those strange things. There are no other holes as far as I’m aware.
A sinkhole can range anywhere between a slight depression in the ground right up to an enormous hole reaching down half a kilometre.
We just couldn’t resist this story - purely for the comedy title!
Frozen asset
A greenkeeper who kept a snowball in his freezer for ten years is selling it on eBay.
Lee Thackaberry, 43, popped the snowball in a freezer bag after a memorable drunken snowball fight, after he had seen a news report of a similiar ten-year-old one selling on eBay for £15,000.
Lee, of East Grinstead, Sussex, said: “I can’t believe how long it’s survived. It’s all intact. I remember when I froze it... I came back from the pub with neighbours and there had been a particularly heavy snowfall, so we decided to have a snowball fight. I thought as a laugh
we should keep one.”
He added: “Ten years on and here we are. I want to sell it. I’m not expecting it to make £15,000 but you never know.”
Hockey player blinded after gruesome injury
Sam Ward had scored twice and was hovering in hope of a hat-trick, when a team mate took a shot and the ball - travelling at about 50mph - hit him directly in his left eye.
The impact shattered the forward’s eye socket, caused seven facial fractures and tore his retina, leaving him effectively blind in one eye.
Although he was floored by the blow, Ward was adamant he should return to the field. Team officials insisted his game was over and, after glancing in a window, he understood why.
“I couldn’t see out of my left eye, it was swollen, bleeding and then I realised I had no real facial structure down that side of my face,” he said.
Because of the extent of the injury and facial swelling, it was 10 days before extensive corrective surgery could begin.
“They basically took my face off,” said Ward with a nervous smile.
128 PC April/May 2020
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