Fed up with local LA pothole Arnold Schwarzenegger fills it in himself

Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighbourhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it in himself.

The actor and former California governor tweeted a video of him and a helper using packaged concrete to repair the road in the Brentwood area.

“Today, after the whole neighbourhood has been upset about this giant pothole that’s been screwing up cars and bicycles for weeks, I went out with my team and fixed it,” he wrote on Twitter.

“I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it. Here you go.”

Whilst they were filling the hole a neighbour driving past rolled down her car window and shouted her thanks at the action movie star.

“You have to do it yourself. This is crazy. For three weeks I’ve been waiting for this hole to be closed,” he said.

However, a spokesperson for the city told NBC Los Angeles that the area is “not a pothole.”

The official told the news station that what Schwarzenegger filled in was actually a gas service trench that was dug for ongoing work being performed in the area by SoCal Gas. They said the work was supposed to be complete by the end of May.

Arnold is not the first celebrity to become upset by a pothole and take action. In March last year, Rod Stewart posted videos of himself filling in holes near his estate in the Essex town of Harlow, after complaining his Ferrari couldn’t get through.

-AP with additional edits