Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
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#2I need to check my homeowner's insurance to see if I'm covered if the house is stolen.
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#3I need to check my homeowner's insurance to see if I'm covered if the house is stolen.
Ah. "The Problem of the Missing Baseball"
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#4meth addicts
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#5not in the US, but i believe we have plastic manhole covers here now because you can't leave anything metal unguarded
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#6Blessed are the scrappers, for they shall inherit… 200’ tall radio towers?
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#7How come they didn't notice that their service went dead when the tower was stolen?
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#8How come they didn't notice that their service went dead when the tower was stolen?
The tweet says "a tower site" which implies they have others. It's entirely possible/likely that they have multiple towers for better coverage; if one went down they would lose some coverage area but not all of it.
It's an AM station, so they may also shut down overnight (as many small stations do to avoid over-propagation).
Off topic: I could have guessed that guy was a radio station manager without any context. There's just a look to them.
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#9Note that the tower doesn't really look like that picture in the nypost - it's a much more portable looking affair: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9QMBDPnazGT1cgj9
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#10Steel scraps at $225 a ton..
That's about what a large pickup truck can haul.
Copper is worth 20x more.
I dunno, if you're willing to work that hard you could probably just become a contractor.