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smileysteve
Two issues to me;

- No instrumentation of the broadcast, ie, responses to calls; receivers, even an individual listener, or the recorder listening at a given point. Your SLI for a terrestrial broadcast shouldn't be "a landscaper told me it was gone"

- Lack of business insurance. a $100,000 item that is imperative to your business seems like something that should be insured. Especially, if you don't have nearby site security, or live in a location that has hurricanes, and tornados.

I enjoy the comments that suggest a helicopter stole it for scrap metal because the fuel, flight time, and ground coordination would be significantly complex.

I theorize it wasn't a theft, but some party the poultry plant / city / county believed it was derelict, a safety issue, and an eyesore; And that nobody knew who to contact in a timely manner to have it removed.

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pavel_lishin
Based on that Google Street View link someone else provided, there is absolutely no chance that a helicopter could carry that away in a single piece.
RecycledEle
I think insuring radio towers is difficult because of the difficulties servicing them. I could be wrong.

I agree with the rest of what You said.

euroderf
Wow this rates right up there with thieves in the ex-USSR ripping up copper cabling along railroad tracks and elsewhere.

File under "weird crimes of theft in sclerotic economies".

nocoiner
Alabama has a higher per-capita GDP than virtually all of Western Europe.
saywhanow
Perhaps this is one of those situations where median is more useful than mean.