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Admin · Posted June 4th, 2009, 08:31 PM

I've heard of hot... Especially here in Texas... But I have never heard of something like this!

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Crews rescue man after road melts

A 19-year-old man had to be rescued after his lower leg became stuck in melted tar on a road outside his house in Greater Manchester.

Graham Merrington's foot and shin disappeared down the hole as he tried to cross Angleside Avenue in Burnage.

Firefighters cut away the road surface, believed to have melted in the hot weather, to free him on Tuesday night.

He said: "I was in a bit of shock. You don't expect to be walking down a road and disappear down a hole."

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TamaMum · Posted June 5th, 2009, 08:31 AM

The words "hot" and "Manchester" are not associated with each other;
the words "rain" and "Manchester" are pretty inseparable (except more recently last week when the words "Manchester" and "United" were linked closely with "LOSERS!!!") :p

-Ra- · Posted June 5th, 2009, 10:04 AM

Believe it or not, this happened to me before. Not b/c of rain though, but b/c of the extreme heat, the asphalt had melted. My foot didn't plunge into a hole, but my flip flops got stuck. I had to stand in the shade as the road was too hot to walk on barefooted w/o any shoes. So I called my brother to bring me another pair of flip flops lol. Not fun, no sir. Not fun at all.

Ra,

Charleene · Posted June 5th, 2009, 10:41 AM

During the summer, walking around town, the tar spots from repair work on the roads (like the stuff they pour in the cracks after working on a road) get so hot that you could get your shoe stuck in it like Ra was mentioning, but the tar road itself never gets hot enough here (that I have seen at least). As for foot going completely through.....did the road like have a big air pocket underneath it or something? Or was the road really just that thick? I mean, lower leg would be like a foot or two (depending) worth of road lol

Temple · Posted June 5th, 2009, 10:49 AM

That must of been scary.. Not being able to move, at the area where traffic is.. not being able to move.. I just wonder if that tar was hot, and maybe it burned his foot? I hope he's okay after this. I would really HATE for that to happen to me, I would be screaming almost as if I were dieing..

~Temple

Naughty KP · Posted June 7th, 2009, 05:20 AM

This sort of thing happened to me alot over summer. especially when the temperatures reached 47 degrees. So now when you come up the mountain, the new section of the road has a few of my disintegrated thongs and sandals embedded in the edges.

NKP

Natalie63626 · Posted June 7th, 2009, 12:20 PM

When the weather gets hot, I do an extra shift at the ice-cream shop. Then, I take the cash and buy myself and ice-cream.

Quick, metling-road free, & really tasty!

Natalie

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TamaMum Senior Member Posts: 793 Blog Entries: 4 Thanked 130 Times LOLed 118 Times	#2 Posted June 5th, 2009, 08:31 AM The words "hot" and "Manchester" are not associated with each other; the words "rain" and "Manchester" are pretty inseparable (except more recently last week when the words "Manchester" and "United" were linked closely with "LOSERS!!!") :p

Temple Member Posts: 106 Blog Entries: 1 Thanked 11 Times LOLed 18 Times	#5 Posted June 5th, 2009, 10:49 AM That must of been scary.. Not being able to move, at the area where traffic is.. not being able to move.. I just wonder if that tar was hot, and maybe it burned his foot? I hope he's okay after this. I would really HATE for that to happen to me, I would be screaming almost as if I were dieing.. ~Temple

Naughty KP Senior Member Posts: 1,867 Blog Entries: 239 Thanked 112 Times LOLed 209 Times	#6 Posted June 7th, 2009, 05:20 AM This sort of thing happened to me alot over summer. especially when the temperatures reached 47 degrees. So now when you come up the mountain, the new section of the road has a few of my disintegrated thongs and sandals embedded in the edges. NKP

Natalie63626 Member Posts: 147 Blog Entries: 9 Thanked 5 Times LOLed 4 Times	#7 Posted June 7th, 2009, 12:20 PM When the weather gets hot, I do an extra shift at the ice-cream shop. Then, I take the cash and buy myself and ice-cream. Quick, metling-road free, & really tasty! Natalie