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by fbdab103 858 days ago
As a reader, I want to have a sense of scale of the tower.
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Of course. The scale is 200 feet, as described in the article. Maybe you want it in football fields?
A picture is worth a thousand words. 200 feet tall and how thick are the bars? How many? Could I do it with a hacksaw or would I need a more intense torch? I want to visualize perpetrating the crime.
It's hard to correctly visualize something when the provided visuals are abhorrently wrong, though, isn't it?

There's a world of difference between an old free-standing Long Lines tower and the straight-and-narrow guyed tower that actually disappeared, just as there is also a world of difference stature between Roseanne Barr and Gwen Stefani.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but each of those thousand words has negative value when they're simply wrong.

Smoots.
And that photo totally fails to convey the scale. Pictures of the actual radio tower were posted elsewhere here and it's way smaller.
Yes, and what the wrong photo does is fuck with your sense of scale entirely. The included tower is more of an industrial installation; the real tower is more like something a couple drunk metal thieves could salvage in an evening.