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

  • @[email protected]
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    4011 months 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
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      611 months ago

      With a Cobra CB radio and gun rack accessory kit.

  • blazera
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    2211 months ago

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

  • @jqubed
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    1611 months ago

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

      • @TrueStoryBobOP
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        511 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.

  • theodewere
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    1211 months ago

    your suspect is a combination of Don Quixote and Robin Hood

  • Rentlar
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    611 months ago

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

  • @TheFonz
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    511 months ago

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

    • @Kbobabob
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      311 months ago

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

      • @TheFonz
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        311 months ago

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

        • @TrueStoryBobOP
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          211 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.