Quoted from o-din:Smart people hurt themselves on government owned property.
Then you get nothing...governmental immunity. Unless you can prove negligence on behalf of the municipality. Which is VERY difficult to do.
In the case above the municipality would have to have been publicly aware of the pothole and fail to repair it in a "reasonable" amount of time. What's a reasonable amount of time...approximately 30 days. Again...you would first have to prove they knew about it.
I do this for a living and "slip and falls" on governmental property happen daily. Almost no one successfully proves negligence and "governmental immunity" prevails. That's why governmental insurance rates are way lower than private business insurance.