Exploding Manhole Tosses Car In Air After Flash Flood In Montreal

Parking in Montreal is a nightmare. It's hard enough to find a spot and then you have to worry about exploding manholes throwing your car into the air.

That's what happened on Monday in Canada's "Sin City" when a flash flood turned a manhole into a geyser and badly damaged one unlucky driver's car, according to NBC.

The gushing water thrust the vehicle into the air several times, in video broadcast by the BBC.

Comments

[Roosting Chickens]

10:06 AM on 07/26/2011

Wonder if he'll be charged or taxed for the car wash.

[legaleagle4]

04:30 PM on 07/22/2011

"Canada's Sin City"? Really? Give me a break, I lived there for years and it isn't exactly Vegas.

[airmikee99]

04:29 PM on 08/13/2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City_%28description%29

Montreal has been called Sin City since the days of Prohibition, back when Las Vegas had a whopping population of just over 5,000.

[wegugin]

04:48 PM on 07/21/2011

Awesome, I know. But I'd be really pissed if the person taking this video were someone I knew who failed to suggest that I move my car...

[larmarch5]

04:39 PM on 07/21/2011

Wow, that looked like Louie Gommert having a preemie.

[hebrewzzi]

04:33 PM on 07/21/2011

Bet that car smells AWESOME now.

[liberalviper]

04:16 PM on 07/21/2011

"Exploding manhole" Lol.

[gtoya1331]

01:04 PM on 07/22/2011

yah it took me a while to stop laughing

[bomland31]

04:00 PM on 07/21/2011

I wonder if insurance (assuming they have it) would cover something like that. I'm sure something was messed up on that car.

[knerd]

03:51 PM on 07/21/2011

Obviously a global warming hoax.

[wa0cal]

03:33 PM on 07/21/2011

The owner of that vehicle was lucky he or she wasn't exiting the car when this happened

[Cowoak]

03:29 PM on 07/21/2011

You said Manhole! huh huh huh huh heheheh hehehehe

[EBE]

03:23 PM on 07/21/2011

Looks like the owner can skip the undercarriage clean next time they go to the RotoWash.

[verylargehat]

02:43 PM on 07/21/2011

J'aime le Canada. Even with the exploding manholes.

[dellastreet49]

02:40 PM on 07/21/2011

What a sight.

[dellastreet49]

02:40 PM on 07/21/2011

This was awesome.

[bearchao]

02:54 PM on 07/21/2011

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