‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station
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Small radio station forced to go silent after ‘unbelievable’ theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace

‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama::Small radio station forced to go silent after ‘unbelievable’ theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace

  • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Lucky they didn’t kill themselves. AM works by sending a FUCKton of RF energy into the tower structure. If you’re touching the tower and ground you’re going to conduct it instead and poof.

  • Librenautik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    For me it smells shady business.

    There is no way to remove the tower without leaving trace. I would

  • KrapKake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    “WJLX still has its FM transmitter and tower, it is not allowed to operate its FM transmitter while the AM station is off the air.”

    But why?

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    This reminds me of the time someone stole a mango in Australia… obviously, being Australia, the mango was very big.

    It was just a marketing stunt and it backfired — police weren’t too happy about wasting their time investigating a fake crime. Even after they were told what happened, they still had phones ringing off the hook with people calling in evidence, wasting government resources.