Victim gets even

[newbury]

My parents had a house at the end of a mile road with a wide driveway that the school bus driver would hit the mailbox routinely. My Dad put up two concrete posts with fieldstone on either side of the drive, Each was about 40" in diameter and 6' tall. He made sure there was plenty of room for the bus to turn. And the mailbox was beside one post on the non-driveway side.

We continued to lose a stone or so with new bus drivers, but never another mailbox.

 

[JDgreen227]

My parents had a house at the end of a mile road with a wide driveway that the school bus driver would hit the mailbox routinely. My Dad put up two concrete posts with fieldstone on either side of the drive, Each was about 40" in diameter and 6' tall. He made sure there was plenty of room for the bus to turn. And the mailbox was beside one post on the non-driveway side.

We continued to lose a stone or so with new bus drivers, but never another mailbox.

I used to drive long straight trucks and your post made me wonder, did the bus drivers hit things turning in too sharply or did they hit them when they pulled out (tail swing at the rear)? I worked with one guy who was used to driving a 12 foot box truck, when he began driving Ryders with 24 foot boxes he had several minor accidents because he didn't allow for the tail swing.

 

[foggy1111]

A long time ago.....when I was a dumbazz 19 year-old kid.....I was going way to fast around a rural highway curve at around midnight (on a Sat nite). Yep.....just showing off. Anyway.....the back end of my 64 chevelle SS hit gravel on the shoulder and came around on me. I hit a mailbox sideways at something like 90 mph.

After tearing the mailbox out the car carreened to a stop in the middle of a cornfield. No-body was badly hurt....but we were lost in the cornfield for a few minutes.

The mailbox was held in place with a milk-can which was filled with concrete and re-bared to a concrete pad. I put a dent into the side of my car that was about 3 feet deep! Totaled the car....and had to pay the farmer for the mailbox via my insureance. I'm lucky I did not kill or harm any of the occupants. I did take most of the broken glass in my face. All were little cuts.....my white shirt turned red.

Yep....I was a dumbazz kid. Still, I'm not too keen on folks with monumental mail boxes.

 

[Lloyd_E]

Yup... the rural legend up here is that there was a guy that got tired of the highway wing plow operators taking out his mail box year after year with no compensation. So summer comes and he digs a hole, puts in a 5' sonotube, fills it with a piece of railroad track cast in cement and boards it in to look like a wooden post. Winter comes, first heavy snow of the season. Plow truck goes up the road, plow truck comes down the road and clang! Truck idles down and stops. Supervisor show up to see why the truck hit the box.

End of story...

 

[slowzuki]

Here the mailbox is on the DOT right of way so you are granted permission to install a box to their standards. One smartarse did the rail tie think and wrote off a 100,000$ tandem plow truck when the wing clipped it. The side load bent the frame and pushed the 80,000 lb (loaded) truck sideways causing it to drive into the ditch. The operator was badly hurt from hitting the steering wheel because for some reason plow truck drivers hate wearing seatbelts.

 

[JDgreen227]

I have never understood the mailbox vandalism thing why destroy someone's property for no reason? Wonder how the morons who smash mailboxes would feel if someone slashed their new tires or took a screwdriver to the nice paint on their cars? MORONS !!

 

[Car Doc]

I have never understood the mailbox vandalism thing why destroy someone's property for no reason? Wonder how the morons who smash mailboxes would feel if someone slashed their new tires or took a screwdriver to the nice paint on their cars? MORONS !!

Yeah really those are the ones who scream bloody murder when something happens to them they are the first to call the law and demand justice! :laughing:

 

[Jstpssng]

I have never understood the mailbox vandalism thing why destroy someone's property for no reason? Wonder how the morons who smash mailboxes would feel if someone slashed their new tires or took a screwdriver to the nice paint on their cars? MORONS !!

Years ago I was walking up the sidewalk after dark when a car went past, and something went whizzing past my head.
The next day I returned to the same spot and saw an empty quart beer bottle laying in the grass, just past a road sign. Apparently they didn't see me, and were trying to hit the sign.

 

[dmccarty]

Years ago I was walking up the sidewalk after dark when a car went past, and something went whizzing past my head.
The next day I returned to the same spot and saw an empty quart beer bottle laying in the grass, just past a road sign. Apparently they didn't see me, and were trying to hit the sign.

Or they did see you and they were not trying to hit the sign....

Later,
Dan

 

[JDgreen227]

Or they did see you and they were not trying to hit the sign....

Later,
Dan

And they call ME a jerk....:laughing: GOOD ONE, Dan !!!