When I finished my last post with the promise that there would be more to come, I was thinking more in terms of weeks or months rather than minutes or hours.

The latest story to hit the newswires is a theft in Pennsylvania in the town of Windber of a radio tower that has gone missing. The local police believe the 120-foot radio tower, which has sat unused for the last few years, has been the target of scrap metal thieves.

There seems to be no end to the ambitious nature, nor the lengths that thieves will go to to get their hands on items that most of us barely even notice, let alone attribute a dollar value to.

The radio transmission tower was a local landmark until it vanished one night.

The speculation is that the thieves threw cables over the guy wires of the tower and simply pulled it over with a truck before cutting it up, loading it and taking off. They can see burn marks and cut bolts at the scene which suggests that it has been broken up for haulage.

The report is that a transformer on the tower held as much as 300 pounds of copper, a valuable target of scrap metal thieves, it would seem.

Where most of us probably wouldn’t even notice some of the items that are being targeted by scrap metal thieves, the ambitious and industrious thieves are realising a good dollar value.