Mail Box Destruction

[alltoys]

I found a broken bat next to my mail box this morning, well not next to about 12 feet away. Box is still in one piece not even a dent. I wonder how dinglenuts faired??

 

[ragkar]

I think that when I was researching mailboxes last year, I
came across the USPS guidance that a breakaway mailbox
support would be no heavier than two inch pipe or a four
by four.

 

[Scooby074]

I found a broken bat next to my mail box this morning, well not next to about 12 feet away. Box is still in one piece not even a dent. I wonder how dinglenuts faired??

LOL... Im sure somebody somewhere has sore hands this morning.

 

[ragkar]

There's a farm well south of me with a funny mailbox.
It's mounted on top of a twenty foot pole and is marked 'air mail'
It hasn't been baseball batted yet.

they have a regular box too.

 

[ccsial]

No problem with hiring a lawyer and having a case heard in front of a jury. But the Kid and Mom would be admitting to a Federal crime just by filing a law suit.

Good point.

 

[2manyrocks]

I found a broken bat next to my mail box this morning, well not next to about 12 feet away. Box is still in one piece not even a dent. I wonder how dinglenuts faired??

Don't you wish you had put up a game camera for the pictures?

 

[Ken45101]

The first year we lived here, I think our mailbox was vandalized 4-5 times. (We then understood why the previous owner didn't have a mailbox.) We average at least once a year. They've even driven over the post.

I buy the cheapest mailboxes I can find, two at a time. I just put them on with bungee cords.

When I suggested to the local postmaster that she should be reporting this to the postal inspectors, she asked "why?" I said it's a federal crime. She wasn't interested in doing anything.

The sheriff will take a report and tell me that there is a lot of this going on. But of course with only one deputy on duty, they can't do anything but take reports.....

I've been tempted to sit down there some night with a .45 or a 12 ga and scare the heck out of them, but then they don't show up for a while anyway.

Next time they knock over the post, I'll probably put in a railroad tie as a new post. If "the government" complains, I'll tell them to do their job so that I don't have to do this.

One time I walked into the local Carter Lumber store to buy replacement boxes. I commented to the clerk about the vandalism. He laughed and said that he did that as a teen. What an idiot to insult a customer that way! I should have went to the store manager and informed him that if they hired idiots like that, they permanently lost me as a customer.

Ken

 

[Mike Costello]

Sometimes, you just gotta get proactive in these situations. I lived in a nice neighborhood where nothing happened -- until a new family moved in with their punk kids. All of a sudden, damaged mailboxes, cars egged or painted, trash tossed on lawns and grafitti sprouting everywhere. The neighbors got together and talked to the parents about their kids behavior, only to be told they can't control their kids.
So, time for some psychological warfare. Neighbor across the street from the kids trained a camera on their house 24/7. Everytime they messed up a mailbox, we fixed it or cleaned it. I was mowing my lawn one day when the punks came walking by and made some threats. I told them, " I don't call the cops, I use curbside justice".
Their old man drove a nice shiny black Corvette and ALWAYS parked it in the garage--never leaving it outside even for a moment. A neighbor casually commented it would be a shame for a car like that to get vandalized like all the others in the neighborhood.
Finally, the punks were caught in the act spray painting a wall at the park and were "educated" by someone unknown to any of us who lived nearby. The family moved away--end of problem!

 

[mapmaker]

A few years ago a friend of ours backed over our mail box, her husband built us a new stand. He took an old tire rim and welded a post to it, then built a bracket to hold the mail box. If anyone hits it it just falls over and I pick it up in the morning. I use a plastic mail box that survives most hits. Over the summer someone decided to run it over, when It went under the car the tire rim came up and put a hole in the oil pan. When I got up in the morning I found the mailbox and post on the ground next to a big pool of oil. Expensive night out for some kid.

 

[2manyrocks]

Earlier someone has posted about chasing somebody in a car. Finally remembered something that happened here. A guy caught three no-goods breaking in his house. They got in their car and took off. He pursued them in his car for some distance. He tapped their bumper with his bumper and they crashed into a tree. All 3 died. He was found guilty of manslaughter or vehicular homicide by a 12 person jury and sent to prison. You can complain about lawyers and courts and prosecutors, but keep in mind that it was 12 local people who decided his guilt or innocence.