Mexican soft-drink truck "swallowed by the earth"

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Harambe Harambe

Sep 15, 2025

Well, that's something you don't see every day.

A Jarritos truck in Mexico City was making a routine delivery on Saturday when it drove over a quickly opening sinkhole and got stuck.

Then, well, the hole opened up a little more:

Video of the incident that Iztapalapa Mayor Aleida Alavez Ruiz shared with Reuters shows the truck balancing precariously with its front wheels in the air, then plunging backward, swallowed by the earth as the asphalt gives way.

Not good!

According to Ruiz, no one was injured in the incident, which she speculated befell the truck when the city's 'very old' drainage network collapsed underneath it.

'We arrived minutes after the truck loaded with soft drinks sank, and while we were coordinating preventive actions, the weight ended up sinking it completely,' Ruiz wrote in a post on social media that's been translated to English.

You will be glad to know no one was hurt, but someone isn't getting their Jarritos!


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