So I’d just left the Monument and protest demonstration (see previous post) and walked up to Wal-Mart for my chicken breast when I saw this gaping hole in the street.

Wow – perfectly aligned for some un-suspecting driver!

This is a U-turn spot for traffic to head back to the very major boulevard of Insurgentes.

Hmmm – this is going to be interesting!

So I waited for my un-suspecting prey – I mean driver…

So here comes the first guy – nope, he’s paying attention and goes around the hole.

The bottom line is I wait awhile but the several cars making u-turns all see the hole and carefully drive around it.

So I continue walking across the street to Wal-Mart, but remember another hole!  Leslie and I have walked past this hole a million times and don’t think anything about it anymore – it’s just there and to be avoided.  There’s a whole long line of rental bikes there with this pedestrian gap in the fence…

Ah yes – keep your wits about you whether driving or walking!

So I got my chicken breast but there was no bus back home to take (the protest demonstration) so I started to walk back when I walked past my u-turn hole.

With nothing better to do for the moment I waited – and watched…

Sure enough, a car came around for the u-turn but this guy didn’t see the hole and hit it square.  The car dropped and instantly stopped, but it only dropped maybe 4-6″.  I thought it should have dropped the car down to its frame.  After maybe 5 seconds, the guy gave it the gas and climbed out of the hole.

Hmmm – why didn’t the car become completely disabled?  When he drove off  I wandered over for a closer look and saw a chunk of concrete standing in the hole – with lots of tire marks!  That piece of concrete was keeping all the cars from completely dropping into the hole, but probably not doing so much for all those future alignments…

Just another exciting day in Mexico!