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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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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[-] Phillmebucket@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

With a Cobra CB radio and gun rack accessory kit.

[-] blazera@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago
[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Iron man Joe Sixpack.

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

Someone with money, ain't no crackheads doing that

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

What if the crackheads are evolving tho

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mystery solved.

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[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Alto@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Same difference, one's just colder

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

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

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