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A northwest family is highlighting the horrors of the city’s slow response to a large sinkhole on their street, enlisting the help of some Halloween skeletons to make their point.

On Friday afternoon, part of the road collapsed in front of the Piraux family’s home in Evanston, creating a sinkhole filled with muddy water. After calling Calgary 311 multiple times to report the hole, the frustrated family dug through their Halloween decorations to have a little fun with it.

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“We are pretty known in our community as the ‘Halloween House.’ We live on a corner so we really do Halloween, like we have a 15-foot skeleton, we do a whole graveyard and usually have five skeletons hanging around,” Jordan Piraux said Tuesday.

“(Monday) afternoon, we were sitting around kind of bored in the community and we thought, let’s just put some skeletons in the hole and see what happens.”

They dressed the skeletons in safety vests and hard hats, placing them in and around the sinkhole to make them look as though they were doing construction, in the absence of actual city workers.