We investigate the motion of extended test objects in the Schwarzschild spacetime, particularly the radial fall of two point masses connected by a massless rod of a length given as a fixed, periodic function of time. We argue that such a model is inappropriate in the most interesting regimes of high and low oscillation frequencies.PACS numbers: 04.25.-g
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