No, that gap was created after the rail broke and the train derailed as a result.
The crack was in the weld, causing one side to sink and the wheel to hit the start of the next section of rail which was no longer welded to it, causing stress fractures to form in the rail which later caused that 40cm piece to break off.
Elsewhere in this thread, you assert that perhaps Apple simply reversed all this out of the kindness of their heart without regard for the social media blowup that this lucky victim was able to create.
This is cognitive dissonance. If Apple reversed it due to their conscience, it's because they are pretty convinced this user is honest and Apple PR isn't (or didn't need to be) involved.
If on the other hand, Apple has proof the user is not honest, then Apple PR took a huge hit for nothing by forcing Apple Support to unban them, when they could have said "Because we have documented proof the user couldn't have bought this from a legitimate reseller, we cannot unban them."
In Europe, there are two parallel realities which coexist, have some influence over one another, but are ultimately somewhat separate.
There's the real reality, and then there's the reality as it is perceived by the bureaucratic apparatus, the "upside down." It's important to realize that everything in the "upside down" must be consistent with the rest of that reality, but not necessarily with what actually happened in the real world. The closer your activities get to the government and government scrutiny, the more true that description is.
Did John have to go somewhere on Monday and finish his work on Saturday instead? He could have filed for time off and then gotten special permission to work on Saturday, but that's far too many forms with far too many signatures. It's just easier to pretend (on all documents, yes all of them, the "upside down" demands consistency) that he did in fact work on Monday and did not work on saturday. Americans call it fraud, Europeans call it Tuesday.
In the European countries (yes, plural) in which I have lived, _most_ (admittedly not all) employees would decline such a request as abusive and illegal, and employers which insisted would be on the hook for damages were they to insist.
Which itself links to:
https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/2167301-la-france-veut-...
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