A radio station is gearing up after thieves somehow stole a 200-foot radio tower in Alabama.
No one is sure how the ambitious bandit managed to use the heavy steel structure, WJLX station general manager Brett Elmore told WBRC.
“I’ve been trying all weekend to figure it out, and I can’t,” Elmore told the TV station.
“I’ve been in the radio business, all my life and then professionally for 26 years, and I can say I’ve never heard anything like this,” he added. “I can say I’ve seen it all now.”
Elmore learned of the theft Friday when a landscaping crew went to the rural tower site to maintain the property, but there wasn’t much else to maintain.
“When he arrived, he called me on Friday and said, ‘The tower is gone,'” explained the station manager.
“I said, ‘What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place?’ He said, ‘The tower is gone. There are wires everywhere, and they’re gone.’”
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The thieves dismantled the tower by cutting the wires that hold the tower together and also stole other equipment from the property, Elmore said in a Facebook post.
Elmore said the radio station will work to rebuild the tower, but Elmore wants the 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’s a federal crime and it’s not worth it to them at all.”
If caught, the suspect will be fined or imprisoned for up to 10 years.
Station general manager Brett Elmore said he did not know how the thieves got away with the tower.
A Jasper-based radio station uses the tower for its AM radio channel, Elmore said.
Elmore said WJLX could seek temporary authorization from the FCC to continue broadcasting its AM channels through other means.
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