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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
#72A better source than the tabloid New York Post: https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio...
Thanks! We've changed to that from https://nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/radio-station-baffled-aft....
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#73There'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.
If you cut the wires on the type of radio tower, it will come down on its own.
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#74Earlier 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.
'People' is a remarkable way to misspell 'poverty'.
i blame it on culture
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#75How come they didn't notice that their service went dead when the tower was stolen?
It's covered in the article...
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few guys with plasma cutters and a winch could have that pieced and loaded on a flatbed in no time.
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?
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> People are why we can't have nice things, apparently. Always has been. With that said, this is incredibly impressive from a logistics perspective. Hire these folks for demolition and salvage work.
Or arrest them, convict them, and make them pickup garbage on weekends.
Good luck with that, someone will have to supervise them. And supervise the supervisors.
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#78"Better Ads Experience Program Certified"?
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#79Seems 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...
Re: Someone stole a Jasper radio station’s 200-foot tower, owner says
#80Seems 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
In south africa we have multiple stories of people destroying massive power transmission systems for the smallest piece of copper pipe or conductor thats exposed on the side of a transformer.
Metal theft is almost universally not accompanied by common sense.