lemmyfanadmin@real.lemmy.fan to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAlabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolenwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down13cross-posted to: weirdnews@real.lemmy.fanoffbeat@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-linkAlabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolenwww.nbcnews.comlemmyfanadmin@real.lemmy.fan to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: weirdnews@real.lemmy.fanoffbeat@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-squareWild_Mastic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·11 months agoHow do you even steal a frikin 200ft radio tower?
minus-squareIgloojoe@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-211 months agoCrackheads. – “look at all that copper!!”
minus-squarelimelight79@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoAnd what do you do with it? I doubt scrapyards are going to take it after this news…
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 months agoI doubt scrap yards that pay crackheads really care about stolen scrap.
minus-squareIamdanno@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWhy wouldn’t they? It wouldn’t be recognizable once they chopped it up, which probably would take them 10 minutes or so.
minus-square🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoThe average scrap yard is run by the most amoral among us. There’s a reason catalytic converters are stolen. Someone would scrap that tower.
How do you even steal a frikin 200ft radio tower?
1ft at a time
Crackheads. – “look at all that copper!!”
And what do you do with it? I doubt scrapyards are going to take it after this news…
I doubt scrap yards that pay crackheads really care about stolen scrap.
Why wouldn’t they? It wouldn’t be recognizable once they chopped it up, which probably would take them 10 minutes or so.
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.
preppers?