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I was talking to someone at work about street lights. He told me that he lived up the road from a Leagues Club and at night the drunken youths kick the street light pole in front of his house. (He's not into astronomy rather trying to sleep). Makes a big racket of course - that was his complaint. Anyway, being one of those metal street poles that are cropping up in newer developments these days, he said that if these power poles receive a knock that is hard enough it takes the shock of the knock as a collision with say a vehicle and cuts the supply of electricity to the light for about an hour. Unfortunately I have the old wooden telegraph poles in my street so I can't verify this theory.