Someone Stole a 200 ft (60 meters) Tall Radio Antenna in Alabama, USA
No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.
https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/02/07/thieves-somehow-take-200-foot-radio-tower/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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This antenna is now spot welded to the roll bar of a 2012 extended cab Dodge Ram with a 12-in lift and hard wired into it's 1984 Radio Shack Realistic CB\AM\FM stereo radio cassette player.
With a Cobra CB radio and gun rack accessory kit.
Personally i hope this is the start of some mad scientist about to emerge from a secret lab in a mech suit
Meth suit*
Iron man Joe Sixpack.
Someone with money, ain't no crackheads doing that
What if the crackheads are evolving tho
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I still don’t understand how they didn’t notice they were off the air
Automation.
Automation and it's also possible this was a repeater tower... so, not the main broadcast tower but one that fills in a dead zone within the market. Radio and TV stations use repeaters in areas with a lot of hills or tall buildings.
your suspect is a combination of Don Quixote and Robin Hood
It's fucking Carmen San Diego and you know it
Shit, and I was just looking in Munich. Now I gotta get a plane ticket stat!
NGL I got really confused whether this was Jasper, Alberta or Jasper, Alabama.
Same difference, one's just colder
Ted Cruise might be able to help ya out! And thank you America for taking that bullet
No one is at least curious how this was executed??
I'm guessing some bolt cutters or gas/electric powered chop saw and a flatbed.
Either it was a really large team or they had a big window of time...right??
I'm guessing it was a tower like this one.
Balanced on a single anchor point foundation with guy-wires stabilizing it from all sides.