200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”
200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”
First it was copper wiring and plumbing, now people taking the radio towers. You ever stop to think maybe if someone had a bit more hope for having enough to live on stupid shit like this would stop?
Steve Lehto speculated they might have done it just to get the program off the air when he covered this story. He also mentioned the equipment would sell for practically nothing, so it was probably motivated more by the financial damages the station would incur than what they’d be able to sell the equipment for.
I’m inclined to believe him as someone who worked in 6 radio stations across his lifetime
Something like that’s possible, but since taking an antenna after the fact won’t undo the broadcast, and still leaves the option of internet transmission it seems like a lot of risk for little reward. That’s why the first thing that came to mind for me was scrap salvage. Plenty of people on both the lawful and unlawful side of things making relatively untraceable income that way.
This is the answer. People will find ways to survive.
Give me a reason to have hope, that is based on reality, and I will.