How to catch a vandal??

   / How to catch a vandal?? #11  
It still shouldn't make any difference, that 8x8 is no different then a tree. But I do realize that conniving shysters will make you out to be the bad guy even though your not.
A good solid mail box mounted on a swinging arm should work as the pole for the swinging arm can be back out of the roadway a considerable distance and it should also help with snowplow damage.

So when your kid is killed by the cement filled mail box don稚 come crying to me.
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #12  
I had the mailbox issues many, many years ago. I'm sure I'd get a repair bill, or worse, if the municipal snow clearing equipment slid into an immovable mailbox.

There really isn't much of that sort of thing going on any more anyway. You can't ride in the back of a truck and everyone has to be belted in. It makes such activity more difficult.
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #13  
Install a heavy steel box that doesnt smash easily

I inquired at Lowes about a heavy box one time. The guy said they use to sell a cast iron mailbox but some kid broke his arm trying to smash one and his parents sued them.

We had some vandals running over my Mom's mailbox and I mounted it on a 2" iron pipe. The next time they ran over it you could see where the vehicle left the ground and landed with a blown tire. I was disappointed it didn't leave an oil trail. Everyone thought it was pretty funny including the cop that filled the report. They came back and bashed the next one with a bat just for revenge but then we had no more trouble.
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #14  
If out in the country, how about making your driveway with a short loop off the road so the mail person could pull in and drive right out. If you did have power at the end your driveway, I think you still need a street light so the camera can get a video of the vandel.
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #15  
You could cave in to the pressure and get a P.O. box...
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #16  
No liability that I can think of for having a strong mailbox. Where i used to live, we were required to have brick mailbox enclosures, about 2 feet by about 5 feet tall. Could be hollow or filled. Many were smashed to bits by cars the first few years, so mortar and broken brick filled became common on the rebuilds. One time a car took out one of the rebuilds, lost his right front wheel and drum, and continued on down the street about two blocks and into a garage. The police followed the scrapes and got him the next morning.

One guy in another development put his box on a large pipe post, about 8 inches, filled with concrete. It was too close to the road, so county made him cut around the bottom of the post to make it a break away, with only the concrete holding it.
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #17  
Send me your address and I'll mail you a busted trail cam. Set it up in sight and near the mailbox but just out of bat reach. Place a working cam discreetly to trigger on anyone who goes for the dummy, but not on every passing vehicle.

The plan is to discourage with the dummy or snap a pic of someone who got out of their car to bust/steal that too.

A big diff between 'boxes on bollards' is that trees and bridge abutments aren't within an arm's reach of the pavement. Build an indestructable mailbox if you will, just put it on a breakaway mount/post and tack it back on every time until Karma catches up with the creep.

Problem with any/all 'roadside pranks' is when someone gets hurt. My friend's cousin Kenny was killed as a passenger in OCT when kids tossed concrete onto the super-slab from a bridge. Note the ages of the pranksters.
Five teens charged with second-degree murder in I-75 rock-throwing death | MLive.com

My point: don't be a road hazard, too. t o g
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #18  
Id build one of rubber conveyor belting, 1/2 thick roll into a tube and bolt it, mount on the post wrapped in same belting, not pretty but a bat will ot hurt it
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #19  
Twenty or more years ago all the folks living along our rural county road had the "mail box bashing" problem. It continued every spring for three or four years. Finally somebody along the route saw a pickup, got a license plate number and turned this info over to the post office. It was generally assumed that this was done by college students from our local college. I guess research on the license and subsequent contacts made based upon this info proved our assumptions to be fact.

The postal service sent an assistant to the Inspector General to talk to the Dean of Students at the local university. An open letter from the Dean of Students was published in the local newspaper. Needless to say - he was less than pleased about this situation and the visit from the Postal Service. We have never had a single problem since the open letter was published some twenty years ago and to my knowledge nobody was ever prosecuted.

Bottom line - mail box bashing is not about damage to the mail box. It is a serious federal crime to tamper with the United States mail and THAT is what the Postal Service considers mail box bashing to be.
 
   / How to catch a vandal?? #20  
As far as the rocks being thrown. What a beginning of a life for those youths and the end for that young victim? What the **** were they thinking? Anger issues, broken homes, no father figure? I always would like to know what makes people do the things they do?
 

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