There's no discussion, but a 200 foot tower doesn't come down without evidence on the ground unless you have, well, a 200 foot crane.
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Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
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Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
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Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#123Seems like there could be more to the story.. perhaps an alternate explanation than scrap value. a giant steel frame for an antenna would have scrap value, but relatively not that much. For a lot less hassle and more money you could grab a couple semi trailers and cut them up, they are usually just laying around unhooked. Then again I guess meth heads aren’t masters of cost benefit analysis
Scrap metal thieves are indeed not always the brightest. I've heard of cases of attempted thefts of (powered) power lines of electrified railways...
20 years ago rotten.com would post pictures of charred thieves that managed to electrocute themselves at the top of a pole.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if you tell anything of the above on a public forum, you'd be immediately canceled and branded a "racist". It's amazing how the current progressive elite is undermining themselves.
Can you name an example of this happening? Because OP's narrative is very common in a lot of "progressive" places in in the media. It's one of the core ideas of progressivism that poverty is a trap and that people need help from the government to escape it. I can think of some other less mainstream news sources that would have a problem with that idea.
It's probably the part where I mentioned the cultural aspect of my friend's experience, including trying hard in school resulting in being scoffed at or bullied for "acting white".
Also, the "people need the governments help to escape it" was very much not the moral of this particular parable. All it took was a father who gave a damn.
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scrap metal thieves are indeed not always the brightest. I've heard of cases of attempted thefts of (powered) power lines of electrified railways...
20 years ago rotten.com would post pictures of charred thieves that managed to electrocute themselves at the top of a pole.
This happened in Amsterdam a couple of decades ago. There was a newly minted industrial area on the other side of a bridge and the power company had temporarily run a pretty beefy hookup to the other side of the canal (Zeeburgerdijk) to power the various businesses there. The cable was about 4" thick. One night the power went out without warning and the power company showed up, when they found the break they found a hacksaw embedded in the cable fused solidly to the cable guts.
They never bothered to file a report with the police because they figured whoever did that had been punished enough and sure enough there was a report of a guy with massive burns reporting to a nearby hospital that same night.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our local metro area has had a problem with copper thieves for a few years now, cutting open and stealing the wiring from street lights. People are why we can't have nice things, apparently.
They're targeting rail infrastructure here, but a lot of copper there is being replaced with cheaper materials like aluminium.
And signalling with fiber.
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
20 years ago rotten.com would post pictures of charred thieves that managed to electrocute themselves at the top of a pole.
This happened in Amsterdam a couple of decades ago. There was a newly minted industrial area on the other side of a bridge and the power company had temporarily run a pretty beefy hookup to the other side of the canal (Zeeburgerdijk) to power the various businesses there. The cable was about 4" thick. One night the power went out without warning and the power company showed up, when they found the break they found a…
Happened in San Francisco too, although without any report of injury.
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/thieves-steal-16-feet-of-cop...
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#128The thing about this theft is that in order for it to be worth the effort, there needs to be a buyer.
Is the FBI looking into what must be an organized metal salvage pipeline? First the salvage place needs to pay the thieves, no questions asked and no paper trail involved, then they need to pile it or chop it up, then sell it on to industrial factories that can use it, who must look the other way in terms of knowing about the source of the metal.
This involves (among other crimes) tax evasion, book keeping fraud, money laundering, secrecy and probably a lot of bribery.
I mean, if I can't buy pseudoephedrine without the state recording my license, surely it'd be pretty straightforward to require the same to sell copper.
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#129If you need more radio tower stories tonight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_(2022_film)
I'm not particularly susceptible to jump scares in movies or anything shocking really, but, this movie had me on the edge of my seat.
Good movie, much better than expected. Watch some of the making of features too, they filmed it all "real" (up on a 50ft tower or something) and it shows in the acting.
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not easily. Those metal tension cables are dangerous to cut and it’s going to have to fall like a tree in some direction.
Why even cut the cables? Wouldn't they just back out the tensors at the anchors and do it all under control?
That's how I would do it without remote cutters, a small shaped charge, or thermite. Fall direction will be completely out of control, so it would be worth being close to the tower to reach a safe area.