He would be! Except for one thing. I'll get to that in a second. Ok so without rereading to make sure I'm not repeating stuff already stated I'm just going to go ahead and start typing.
So he was given a ton of money and a set amount of time to fix it. Nearly a year later and he hadn't fixed it and the site looked much the same as the YouTuber saw it only somehow more overgrown.
Elmore had gone around telling the whole town he'd had the site cleared and fixed and bought the tower sections and was trying to find the perfect guys to actually do the build.
Little did Elmore know but my dad has his own drones. Those fancy DJI Phantom drones. With the really high quality cameras because my dad fell too old to be climbing up 600 feet just to look at antenna bays and guy wires these days.
So anyways, dad took the drones to the location and did an updated video showing the location still abandoned.
Two days later Brett Elmore drops dead from a heart attack in his favorite pizza joint in town while apparently "scrolling on his phone".
But we like to think it was the panic at the fact someone was publicly calling out his very expensive lies and he can't just clear up a tower site and make 200 feet of tower sections appear overnight. At least not cheaply and going by his very new and fancy truck we're pretty sure we know where all the donated funds went.
Anyways, it's actually been a few years (I think 2? Time is weird and has no meaning.) since he died and no one in town wants to "talk bad about the dead". Even though they all know he was scamming him at this point. They literally choose to ignore the bad he did and just praise the good. The stupid pizza place literally marked his favorite spot at the bar with a plaque and labelled it Brett's Seat.
And despite all the illegal crap Elmore's sudden demise saved his station for his equally corrupt buddies who are proceeding to run it exactly as it is. Illegally.
My family has since said screw it and moved away. We're trying to figure out what to do with the existing station in Jasper but at the moment we're much happier not dealing with the drama of the crazy town.
Now we have two new stations we lucked into in the new town because the previous owner was apparently gifted them as a wedding present from his rich wife but he wants nothing to do with them. Like, he literally told my dad "Take over running them or I'm turning them off and deleting their licenses." The dude married rich and just wants to sit back and collect sports cards and memorabilia. His wife is not pleased with him but we're now in a contract acquiring two new stations.
Even funnier is the fact that my dad used to work in these exact stations back in the 90's and he found some of his old paystubs in one of their old filing cabinets. He came out of a back storage closet laughing and holding up this dusty yellowed old paybook.
According to Dad these stations have been here since the 50's so just letting someone shut them down because he didn't know how or want to run them would have been a crime. Not a literal one. But you probably know what I mean.
So now we have two older stations to update and repair.
And in a hilarious twist of things the country music station had its 400 foot tower snatched down by a careless log truck driver and the previous owner told a scrapping company to scrap it all without even looking to see if anything might be salvageable. He also spent all the insurance claim money on sports collectibles and things.
We have the country station now broadcasting off a 100 foot tower next to the building (normally that tower sends the signal to the bigger towers to actually broadcast) while we figure out how to replace the 400 feet of destroyed and apparently scrapped sections. Lovely.
But hey! The good news is the 600 foot tower that our classic top 40 hits station uses is doing great! We just need to replace the transmitter. Apparently, the transmitter on those is like a 3,000 pound ordeal or something.
So yeah... We're not running LPFMs anymore. Actual legit commercial stations with big power and large ranges now. And massive towers and transmitters. Neglected transmitters. Dying transmitters. Luckily, my dad repairs these things for a living and has managed to keep this one limping along. For now.
Does anyone here want to climb 600 feet and help change some light bulbs by the way? Dad can't do it anymore and I'm not a tower climber. The last guy we paid climbed up 100 feet and got stung by a wasp and backed out. And also dropped the bulb.