this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
241 points (98.8% liked)

Not The Onion

12344 readers
409 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
kescusay@lemmy.world
241
Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 9 months ago by lemmyfanadmin@real.lemmy.fan to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How do you even steal a frikin 200ft radio tower?

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago

1ft at a time

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Crackheads. -- "look at all that copper!!"

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And what do you do with it? I doubt scrapyards are going to take it after this news...

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I doubt scrap yards that pay crackheads really care about stolen scrap.

[–] Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't they? It wouldn't be recognizable once they chopped it up, which probably would take them 10 minutes or so.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The average scrap yard is run by the most amoral among us. There's a reason catalytic converters are stolen. Someone would scrap that tower.