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Old 05-10-2012, 06:35 PM  
dgraves
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It takes weeks of carefully planning by highly skilled techs to successfully bring a building down into it's own footprint and even at best, it doesn't always go as planned.

Why is so much time and money spent? Simply because buildings aren't designed to collapse into their own footprint! If it were that easy, they would just knock out one corner of the building and let gravity do the rest.

This alone is absolute proof of a demo job. Just open your mind and watch the footage. The building went straight down with not so much as a wobble from resistance! I understand the building had damage. If you kicked the leg out from under a table would it collapse straight down?



If this could happen, then why wasn't a single building code change to prevent it from happening in the future?

Can you honestly say that if you saw this footage before 9/11 that you would think it was anything other than a controlled demo?
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