No, those who want to believe it was torched will believe it was torched....... and it won't do any good to try to explain that the breaking angles on the topmost edge (in the photo) are exactly what an engineer would expect to see when the impact was from that direction on a cast aluminum piece - and the break/tear angles on the lower side (in the same photo) are exactly what an engineer would expect to see on the off side as the pole pressured and levered the off-side to break and shear downward.

Nobody would think those are water stains, either. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

What I'd like to know is how they torched the aluminum and left jagged edges (as in broken) without leaving dark burnt stains on the cut edges. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> Those guys are great with the acetylene stuff...... must have been using some inert unobtainable gas torch.

Frank