Originally Posted by
Dan333SP
It's definitely possible and I agree with you, I just remember someone on this forum was convinced the squirrel was planted to make a funny photo after a fork snapped by some other means. I think they thought the squirrel would be cut in half if it actually made it into the wheel rather than getting snagged and dragged back up into the fork. This is why aero spokes are so important.
I don't understand how the direction of the break is possible if it was a caught squirrel. Wouldn't the fork break in the other direction via the squirrel moving the fork forwards past the breaking point? Unless they were practicing going backwards downhill.