  We study the question whether the pole-model VMD approach to weak radiative
hyperon decays can be made consistent with Hara's theorem and still yield the
pattern of asymmetries characteristic of the quark model. It is found that an
essential ingredient which governs the pattern of asymmetries is the assumed
off-shell behaviour of the parity-conserving 1/2^- 1/2^+ gamma amplitudes. It
appears that this behaviour can be chosen in such a way that the pattern
characteristic of the quark model is obtained, and yet Hara's theorem
satisfied. As a byproduct, however, all parity-violating amplitudes in weak
radiative and nonleptonic hyperon decays must then vanish in the SU(3) limit.
This is in conflict with the observed size of weak meson-nucleon couplings.
