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Someone Stole a 200 ft (60 meters) Tall Radio Antenna in Alabama, USA (www.actionnews5.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by TrueStoryBob to c/mildlyinteresting

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No one’s sure how the ambitious bandits made off with the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 6 points 9 months ago

With a Cobra CB radio and gun rack accessory kit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Personally i hope this is the start of some mad scientist about to emerge from a secret lab in a mech suit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Meth suit*

[–] Yawweee877h444 5 points 9 months ago

Iron man Joe Sixpack.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone with money, ain't no crackheads doing that

[–] EdibleFriend 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What if the crackheads are evolving tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Mash the B button.

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[–] EdibleFriend 2 points 9 months ago

Mystery solved.

[–] jqubed 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still don’t understand how they didn’t notice they were off the air

[–] APassenger 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Automation.

[–] TrueStoryBob 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

your suspect is a combination of Don Quixote and Robin Hood

[–] crypticthree 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's fucking Carmen San Diego and you know it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Shit, and I was just looking in Munich. Now I gotta get a plane ticket stat!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

NGL I got really confused whether this was Jasper, Alberta or Jasper, Alabama.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Same difference, one's just colder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ted Cruise might be able to help ya out! And thank you America for taking that bullet

[–] TheFonz 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one is at least curious how this was executed??

[–] Kbobabob 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing some bolt cutters or gas/electric powered chop saw and a flatbed.

[–] TheFonz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Either it was a really large team or they had a big window of time...right??

[–] TrueStoryBob 2 points 9 months ago

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.