Someone took a hot bath

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When the transmitter for Hearst Television's KMBC-9-ABC in Kansas City (Market #31) suddenly shut down Sunday night, engineers were dispatched to find out what happened.

Cops arrived first and found a large section of 2-inch copper conduit cut away from the side of the transmitter building and green coolant everywhere.

The tubing circulated liquid around two $40,000 transmitter tubes. A gauge detected the sudden loss in pressure and shut down the transmitter. Whether it happened in time to save the tubes is a question that KMBC-KCWE Director of Engineering Jerry Agresti said won't be known until today. The damage could reach $100,000.

Either the robbers knew exactly what they were doing or were incredibly brazen. “They could've gotten scalded by the hot fluid, and there’s extremely high-voltage equipment there,” said Agresti. “If they'd touched the wrong wire, they'd be found dead.”

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Do you have a link to this article?

[Deep Thought]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/26/1905156/brazen-burglary-knocks-kmbc-off.html#recent_comm

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Thanks, Deep Thought. I didn't have a link to the article, just the text that one of the local SBE members emailed out.

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Thanks,

Google wasn't being my friend.