Watching this video of an Illinois football field being swallowed by a sinkhole is the stuff nightmares are made of

AP News – ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A giant sinkhole has swallowed the center of a soccer complex built above a working limestone mine in southern Illinois, toppling a large lamppost and creating a yawning chasm where teams of children often play. But no injuries were reported after the sinkhole opened Wednesday morning.

“There was no one on the field at the time and no one was hurt, and that’s the most important thing,” Alton Mayor David Goins told The (Alton) Telegraph.

Security video that captured the sudden formation of the hole shows a light pole on a football field disappearing into the ground, along with benches and artificial turf in the city’s Gordon Moore Park.

The hole is estimated to be a minimum of 100 feet wide and a maximum of 50 feet deep, according to Michael Haynes, the city’s parks and recreation director.

So I guess that’s what happens when you build football fields on top of old abandoned mines? Yeah man.

It seems like just as Bane was leaving the stadium and Big Ben, Heinz Ward and the boys were about to kick off, everything suddenly went kaboom.

Fortunately, no one was playing on the fields when this happened and a tragedy was averted. But I guess all that limestone we use for everything has to come from somewhere, right? One of the cool things about flying back to Chicago from the South or the West Coast is flying over all the quarries outside of the city and seeing how far they dug to get all that stone out. Some are insanely deep. Almost as deep as your mother. OHHHHH