An 8-year-old autistic boy was taking out the garbage Sunday afternoon when, his parents say, a sandy patch of ground outside their Southern California apartment gave way and the boy slipped into a sinkhole, according to CBS affiliate KCAL-TV. “It was the worst experience of my life actually.”A child sustained only minor injuries after falling 15-feet down a sinkhole in Hesperia Sunday afternoon. “She said he had fallen in a hole,” a woman, who was not identified, told KCAL-TV about the girl. Read more:San Antonio sinkhole swallows two cars, killing a sheriff’s deputy‘Stop. End zone sinkhole is just the latest issue to befall Purdue footballMassive sinkhole along Florence river swallows dozens of cars‘It was a freak act of nature': Sinkhole swallows and kills Arizona farmhandA ‘monster’ 80-foot sinkhole closed a stretch of coastal highway in Oregon

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 16:12 UTC