A well-known pavement artist who has created many of the most famous 3D street paintings got it all wrong today when he attempted to trick homeowners in St Albans that their street had collapsed into a gigantic hole.
The publicity stunt backfired because after spending all night creating a hugely detailed and full-colour 3D chalk drawing of a crater across a residential road in the town in order to trick the locals, the whole street fell into a freak sinkhole before anyone had seen it.
The team of actors who had been set up to 'discover' the crater for Good Morning Britain were extremely surprised when the massive hole turned out to be real.
At around 07:45 the 'postman' fell 15 metres into the pit. Twitter has his immediate status as 'Awkward! - Oh yes and I've got double compound shinbone fractures.' Followed fairly quickly by 'For effing effsake get me gas and air, stat.'
The accident will probably curtail his run as an extra in Casualty.
Pressed for a comment, the multi-award winning pavement artist was quoted as saying "Double You Tee Eff - Yeahbut this is an art instulation - I ain't got no insurance".
It is expected that the postal employee must now go through a long program of painful bone grafts and intensive physiotherapy. Although he may not be able to live his old life, at least he is able to park on the yellow lines for free, and roll himself into the rugby club bar, where he used to be team captain.
The famous street artist was pleased to note that in our dour, grey, monochromatic lives, at least the ex Postman's language could be considered to be 'extremely colourful'.
