No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.
Someone Stole a 200 ft (60 meters) Tall Radio Antenna in Alabama, USA
https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/02/07/thieves-somehow-take-200-foot-radio-tower/
24 Comments
Phillmebucket@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 2y
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.
comador@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
With a Cobra CB radio and gun rack accessory kit.
blazera@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y
Personally i hope this is the start of some mad scientist about to emerge from a secret lab in a mech suit
lambda@programming.dev · 13 pts · 2y
Meth suit*
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Iron man Joe Sixpack.
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 2y
Someone with money, ain't no crackheads doing that
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
What if the crackheads are evolving tho
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y
Mash the B button.
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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Mystery solved.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
I still don’t understand how they didn’t notice they were off the air
APassenger@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Automation.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
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.
theodewere@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
your suspect is a combination of Don Quixote and Robin Hood
crypticthree@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
It's fucking Carmen San Diego and you know it
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y
Shit, and I was just looking in Munich. Now I gotta get a plane ticket stat!
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
NGL I got really confused whether this was Jasper, Alberta or Jasper, Alabama.
Alto@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
Same difference, one's just colder
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y
Ted Cruise might be able to help ya out! And thank you America for taking that bullet
TheFonz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
No one is at least curious how this was executed??
Kbobabob@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I'm guessing some bolt cutters or gas/electric powered chop saw and a flatbed.
TheFonz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Either it was a really large team or they had a big window of time...right??
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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.