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What does it take to knock over a lamp post these days? That thing didn't move an inch.
It's actually a serious safety concern for motorists; placing almost immovable objects in the median strip or beside the road.
One state here in Australia prides itself as the inventor of the "Stobie Pole". They are renowned for their ability to cut cars in half. From Wikipedia:
"an improved pole adopted to be used for very many purposes, but particularly for carrying electric cables, telegraph wires... [it] consists of two flanged beams of iron or steel, preferably rolled steel joist of 'H' or of channel sections, placed one beside the other with their flanges inward and preferably at a very slight angle one with the other and held together by means of tie bolts, the space between them being filled with cement concrete."
Google "Stobie Pole Crash" for some interesting photos.
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