[BC] Former WBBR Stolen Tower Alert

Dana Puopolo dpuopolo at usa.net
Sat Sep 13 11:52:54 CDT 2008


The tower originally belonged to an AM station, WWBR. Apparently it had been
unused for about 20 years.

Here's a newspaper article:

http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_253215233.html?keyword=topstory

-D

FrankGott at aol.com wrote:
> Thieves steal 120-foot radio tower
> PAINT TOWNSHIP,  PA; Thieves made off with a 120-foot steel radio tower
worth 
> more than $50,000  sometime last week, according to police. 

I guess if you don't find enough copper at the site, you just take the 
whole tower with you when you go.  I wonder how long the tower had been 
abandoned?






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