Well, you did until you admitted to listening to AM radio, anyway
I AM therefore I am.
If that isn’t already a bumper sticker it really should be.
Nosed Attic Atoll
Okay, that has to count as your quota for the year.
What surprises me is anyone touching an AM tower and not getting burnt to a crisp. For AM towers, the whole tower is the antenna, meaning the whole tower is “hot” when turned on.
They suspect it was an inside job, so the culprits presumably had some knowledge of how to steal the antenna without dying. Sounds like they cut the lines leading to the tower first, so there probably wasn’t much risk at that point. And they’re usually clad in some kind of insulating material so casual contact is generally not too risky.
On a semi-related note, here’s a few videos that do a really good job of showing how much power it takes to drive a (FM) Antenna.
These kinds of things almost always are, and the link I saw said the station was already off the air for routine maintenance, and then the maintenance workers showed up and found out there was nothing to work on.
The stock image in that link is a little misleading. Here is a picture of the antenna that was actually taken:
But what the hell did they do with it?
Scrap metal?
Trellis?
It’s obviously on the back of a pickup truck with a Trump flag on it.
Either your photo is misleading, or the text of the article is misleading, because your photo makes it look a hell of a lot shorter than 200 feet.
This image provided by Brett Elmore shows WJLX radio’s tower in Jasper, Ala. Authorities say a thief or thieves made off with the 200-foot tower, which was discovered missing Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, and shut down WJLX Radio. (Brett Elmore vai AP)
If we’re talking about a photo giving a false impression, showing a photo that barely shows the antenna isn’t any more helpful than a stock photo of a different antenna. They’re both bad.
Better photo here. Still doesn’t show the top, but the bracing cables make it look plausible that maybe it’s 200’, although I would have guessed less. Hard to judge the angle of the cables.
Look at the size of the door in the building to get the scale of the diameter of the antenna. Each of the three sides look to be about the width of a standard ladder. The height is already established.
Agreed, now we got something giving some perspective. 
Inside job or not, that still seems bonkers.