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Radio station baffled after 200-foot radio tower disappears without a trace: 'Seen it all now'

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A radio station is on standby after thieves somehow stole a 200-foot radio 
tower in Alabama.

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

“I have tried all weekend to figure it out, and I just can’t,” Elmore told 
the TV station.

“I have been in the radio business, around it all my life and then in it 
professionally for 26 years, and I can say I have never heard of anything 
like this,” he added. “I can say I’ve seen it all now.”

Elmore learned of the theft on Friday when a landscaping crew went to the 
rural tower site to maintain the property, but there wasn’t much left to 
maintain.

“When he arrived, he called me Friday and said, ‘The tower is gone,’” the 
station manager explained.

“I said, ‘What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you are at the 
right place?’ He said, ‘The tower is gone. There is wires everywhere, and 
it is gone.'”

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Thieves dismantled the tower by cutting the wires that secured it and also 
stole other equipment from the property, Elmore said in a post to 
Facebook.

Elmore said the radio station will work to rebuild the tower, but he wants 
thieves to know — loud and clear — that he will work with investigators to 
find out who committed the puzzling federal crime.

“This really hurts a small operation like this, but like I said, I believe 
we will find out who did this,” he said. “It is a federal crime and it 
absolutely will not be worth it to them.”

If caught, the suspects could face a fine or up to 10 years in prison.

The Jasper-based radio station used the tower for its AM radio channel, 
Elmore said.

Elmore said WJLX was able to get temporary authority from the FCC to 
continue broadcasting its AM channel through other means.

https://nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/radio-station-baffled-after-200-foot-
radio-tower-disappears/

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