According to reports, the thieves pulled off what seemed to be an impossible crime. Now, the AM radio station is left with a $60,000 bill and is unable to broadcast on the radio.
A 200-foot radio tower in Alabama was stolen and has gone missing without a trace, taking down an AM station with it. The crime left the station’s radio manager and police blown away and confused, according to media outlets.
“I have tried all weekend to figure it out, and I just can’t,” Brett Elmore, the station’s general manager of WJLX’s AM Station in Jasper, Alabama, said in a statement. “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. I can say I’ve seen it all now.”
According to the statement, Elmore learned about the theft of WJLX’s tower on last Friday. A landscaping company went down to…
