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Radio station baffled after 200-foot radio tower disappears without a trace: ‘Seen it all now’
New York Post ^
| Feb. 7, 2024
| Haley Brown
Posted on 02/07/2024 3:46:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.
“I have tried all weekend to figure it out, and I just can’t,” Elmore told the TV station.
“I have been in the radio business, around it all my life and then in it professionally for 26 years, and I can say I have never heard of anything like this,” he added. “I can say I’ve seen it all now.” Elmore learned of the theft on Friday when a landscaping crew went to the rural tower site to maintain the property, but there wasn’t much left to maintain.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; radiotower
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
02/07/2024 3:48:38 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(E Porcibus Unum )
To: nickcarraway
To: rfp1234
I was going to post that.
To: nickcarraway
sounds like Moon Men are behind this.
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posted on
02/07/2024 3:53:48 PM PST
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: JonPreston
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posted on
02/07/2024 3:55:38 PM PST
by
Right Brother
(Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
To: nickcarraway
Stealing metals to sell for scrap is a common crime nowadays.
A 200 foot tower however......that would be quite an achievment.
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:01:05 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: nickcarraway
They just went to the wrong address.
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:08:03 PM PST
by
Track9
(Matches for sale.. get your matches!)
To: nickcarraway
Meth heads. Maybe our migrant friends.
To: nickcarraway
welcome to obama’s america
To: nickcarraway
article pic is a stock photo ...here's actual pic of stolen tower:
1. cut guy wires except top ones 2. cut top guy wires one by one 3. run
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:17:04 PM PST
by
catnipman
(A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
To: nickcarraway
That’s a lot of scrap metal.
To: DouglasKC
Scrap steel doesn’t bring much, but there was undoubtedly a fair amount of copper wire in the tower, which is where the money is.
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:21:01 PM PST
by
allblues
(God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
To: V_TWIN
A 200 foot tower however......that would be quite an achievment. A lot of empty space in a 200 foot tower. An enormous amount of work to reduce it to scrap.
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:29:03 PM PST
by
marktwain
(quq)
To: marktwain
I wonder how many Dewalt 20 volt batteries that is. 3 or 4?
15
posted on
02/07/2024 4:31:17 PM PST
by
VTenigma
(Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
To: allblues
Destroy a $40,000 tower for $500 worth of scrap copper. It takes 8 hours worth of labor to do it.
Thieves don't care how much destruction they cause, if they end up with a dollar more in their pocket.
Lots of times, they destroy things just for the joy of destruction.
It is much, much easier to destroy than to build.
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:32:41 PM PST
by
marktwain
(quq)
To: Right Brother
No, this has Doug Henning written all over it!
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posted on
02/07/2024 4:42:58 PM PST
by
JZelle
To: catnipman
I think that if you cut the mid section and lower guy wires then the tension from the top guy’s would crumple the tower.
Prolly Step 2 should be “RUN!”.
To: rfp1234
I agree. When in doubt blame it on the little green men.
To: nickcarraway
When is someone going to nab the Statue of Liberty Immigration? 125 tons of iron and 31 tons of copper.
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posted on
02/07/2024 5:08:10 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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