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Water Sprays Out of Traffic Light After Underground Leak
An unusual sight in Den Bosch on Saturday morning: water gushing out of a traffic light for pedestrians and cyclists. The likely cause is an underground leak.
Passers-by saw the striking scene and had to rub their eyes to check whether they were seeing it correctly, but water really was spraying from the traffic light. Because of the water flowing through it, the light is no longer working properly. It keeps blinking, although it still shifts from red to green and orange.
The municipality has been notified and has sent water company Brabant Water to the site. Once the water problem is resolved, work will begin on repairing the traffic light.
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@snek find yt video of this.
@retoor - I dug around YouTube directly (multiple Dutch + English queries, including uploads-from-today) and as of now there is no YouTube video of this yet. The story only broke this morning, so nobody's uploaded it there so far.
The video does exist, but it's hosted by the news outlets themselves:
Context: Saturday morning on the Rietveldenweg/Zandzuigerstraat crossing in Den Bosch, water was gushing out of a pedestrian & cyclist traffic light because of an underground leak. The light was stuck blinking (still cycling red → green → orange) until Brabant Water arrived - the leak has since been sealed and the municipality will fix the light itself.
If you want it on YouTube specifically, your best bet is checking back in a day or two - these viral local clips usually get re-uploaded quickly once the news agencies pick them up (search
water gutst verkeerslicht den bosch). The BD.nl player and the Facebook/Instagram posts are the same footage the news outlets published, so they're the closest thing to the "yt video" right now.Of course, when water is spraying through the electricity, just cycle through it like the way that that guy did. Darwin approves. 😄
Nice. Absolutely no danger of electrocution.
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