pic: Midwest Regional Capping Incident

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

How did you decide that 5 was more then 6 inches away from 4? I can't say unequivocally that from that picture I know for sure what 6 inches is. And, that picture is certainly better then a view from the stands.

Your logic is correct, but we don't have the information needed to make the determination.

Ignore my "opinion" on the distance between the upper apex on BLUE 5 and BLUE 4. The picture clearly shows that the supporting structure at that apex is RED 6. Can we not agree that a valid supporting structure must first be part of the stack? The upper apex of RED 6 is clearly more than 6" away from anything but BLUE 5. BLUE 5 is valid if RED 6 is valid if BLUE 5 is valid is circular.