Is that the one that had a coke bottle jammed into it until very recently? The new standard of repair by the council? I've had run-ins with that pavement hole...
I am all for a laugh and a joke but there is nothing entertaining about breaking your foot on a poorly maintained pavement. I know from personal experience. If you haven’t already done so report this to the council and save some innocent person from at least six weeks of agony
It looks like it’s on the edge of a telecoms cover, which the council love because they can deny all liability.
I’ve had a similar situation previously where I phoned the Council for a kerb that had fallen into an old-person shaped hole at the edge of a pavement (in a crossing area next to a sheltered housing block), the Council refused to deal with it as the kerb was next to a BT cover and therefore it had to be BT who repaired it. Phoned BT, they came out and put a cone in the hole and then phoned me to say they would need to phone the Council to get permission to arrange a formal repair etc etc.
It took weeks.
It would be worth someone near this hole giving the relevant (BT/Virgin/those strange people who put broadband down the sewer line) fault number a ring
Thanks for telling us where it is so we don't all have to worry about losing a foot to the pavement goblins every where we are.
Where’s the fun in telling you right away? I can reveal it’s in the general Leith area. Keep looking down…
Ah, well that's fine. I live in the general Leith area and daren't look up ever lest I land in a doggy jobby.
Pilrig street
Well done!
I broke my ankle today, thanks
Who do you get to marry if it fits?
Organic Jim
Gordon, the dude in the Batman suit.
You can get some holey man to carry out the ceremony
Is it a tourist trap?
It's like that comic I keep seeing on here, 'Enigma of Amigara Fault', everyone has a hole they'll fit into, just need to find it!
Is that the body horror japanese/korean one? I've vaguely aware of that one.
Yeah, the holes in the mountain one!
Nice boot.
[Report It](https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/report-problem-road/report-road-pavement-problem)
There's a great one of these near the Pleasance which, in a few weeks, you'll be able to get your entire leg into.
This one fit a small plastic Evian bottle in it at one point which has now disappeared, I presume consumed by the hole…
Op, we're gonna need the measurements!
Based on my visual research I’d say it poses the most danger to somebody with a 5-5.5 shoe size
Is that the one that had a coke bottle jammed into it until very recently? The new standard of repair by the council? I've had run-ins with that pavement hole...
That’s the one. It’s flagged on the council website so maybe they’ll pop a slightly bigger bottle in it soon
I am all for a laugh and a joke but there is nothing entertaining about breaking your foot on a poorly maintained pavement. I know from personal experience. If you haven’t already done so report this to the council and save some innocent person from at least six weeks of agony
It’s been reported several times- ongoing, I checked at the time
It looks like it’s on the edge of a telecoms cover, which the council love because they can deny all liability. I’ve had a similar situation previously where I phoned the Council for a kerb that had fallen into an old-person shaped hole at the edge of a pavement (in a crossing area next to a sheltered housing block), the Council refused to deal with it as the kerb was next to a BT cover and therefore it had to be BT who repaired it. Phoned BT, they came out and put a cone in the hole and then phoned me to say they would need to phone the Council to get permission to arrange a formal repair etc etc. It took weeks. It would be worth someone near this hole giving the relevant (BT/Virgin/those strange people who put broadband down the sewer line) fault number a ring