nicepants
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Anyone here with half a brain could think it through and realize the inner
radius of the bend will compress while the O.D. will expand. Without a
mandrel inside of the tube, the metal will collapse on itself and kink.
The faster you bend the tube, the greater the kink. if you do it fast
enough, it will break.
So in your theory...the conspirators didn't realize this fact which is "obvious to anyone with half a brain" so they professionally bent the poles with mandrels before placing them on the highway and claiming that they were bent by airplane impacts?
You can even see the effects with a paper towel roll core if you don't have
any metal tubing handy.
You would get along great with Heiwa...
The cardboard tube crumpled when I tried to smash it through a windshield...does this mean the light pole should have crumpled too?