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Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] Wild_Mastic 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How do you even steal a frikin 200ft radio tower?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

1ft at a time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Crackheads. -- "look at all that copper!!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And what do you do with it? I doubt scrapyards are going to take it after this news...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I doubt scrap yards that pay crackheads really care about stolen scrap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't they? It wouldn't be recognizable once they chopped it up, which probably would take them 10 minutes or so.

[–] Speculater 5 points 10 months ago

The average scrap yard is run by the most amoral among us. There's a reason catalytic converters are stolen. Someone would scrap that tower.

[–] Bennettiquette 7 points 10 months ago

preppers?