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

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[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one is at least curious how this was executed??

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing some bolt cutters or gas/electric powered chop saw and a flatbed.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Either it was a really large team or they had a big window of time...right??

[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing it was a tower like this one.

Balanced on a single anchor point foundation with guy-wires stabilizing it from all sides.