How To Get A Pothole Repaired

James Coxall was driving with his family past a massive pothole in his village for the umpteenth time when he decided he'd had enough.



The British man has been either swerving around or barrelling over the massive crater in the Cambridgeshire, U.K., village of Castle Camps for the last eight months. But instead of getting mad about it, he decided to do something silly.

With the help of his wife and kids, he built a pair of denim-clad wooden legs and erected them in the middle of the rain-filled hole, giving the appearance of someone falling in, head first.

According to his own measurements, it's 1.2 metres long, 0.9 metres wide, and 10 centimetres deep.

Four days after the legs went up, the pothole was filled in.

"I can confirm that the pothole in question … was fixed yesterday," Jonathan Kitley, spokesperson for the Cambridge City Council, told CBC in an email.

Coxall says he's pleased to see the pothole fixed. He says the city has filled it in at least once before, but the repairs didn't last long.

"It looks pretty good, but we will have to wait and see, won't we, if it survives wind and rain and cars driving over it." he said. "I'm not that confident."

His family project, meanwhile, remains intact.

"They didn't bury the art," he said. "My wife was driving past and she jumped out of the car and she saved the art off the side of the road."

The pothole prankster is already looking around for his next target. There are plenty of potholes in the village to choose from, he says.

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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/you-ve-got-to-have-a-laugh-says-british-man-who-put-fake-legs-in-pothole-1.7471661

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