Revenge of the mailbox

[jmc]

My mailbox was vandalized yet again last night and I'm thinking about making its replacement "special". I'm PO'd enough that I don't mind throwing some money at this. The important thing is that the vandal doesn't get physically hurt, which makes it more difficult and less fun.

Concept one is a wirelessly connected impact sensor in the box and a wirelessly controlled, hidden video camera. I don't know how to do this but maybe the video is always recording and always recording over the previous images until the impact sensor shuts the looping down after a short, post-impact time interval. After dark might be a problem.

Low tech concept uses maybe some kind impact sensor that triggers the release of a box mounted, indelible dye reservoir into vandal's mid section, or better, Daddy's car.

Any comments or other ideas welcome.

 

[zzvyb6]

First Option: Put a gallon of green paint in the back of the box with the lid loose. If its a Louisville Slugger attack, you should have no trouble searching the high school parking lot for a partialy green vehicle.

Second Option: Deer Camera. Set it up to record the act and a licence plate. Practise with your own vehicle for placement.

3rd Option: Set up a dash camera to look at the mailbox. It will keep re-writing video. Power with a hig capacity 12v battery.

Then go for retaliation at the perps own house.

 

[jmc]

I like it!

 

[r porter]

not near as much fun but i drove a T post on each side of the mailbox and bolted a cross bar over the top of the mail box with u bolts. that was ten years ago and the mail box has not been hit since.

still i would like to see your video of green paint. grin

 

[bcp]

Buy or paint a black mailbox. Put a layer of gooey, sticky, black grease on the side starting about an inch back from the door. It will end up all over the bat, the boy, and the inside of the car.

Is there a silver grease for silver boxes? All I can think of is silver anti-seize.

Bruce

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I'm thinking vehicle air bag in paint bag.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Or an air cannon filled with paint. And camera of course.

 

[lennyzx11]

 

[DT86]

I've got one with concrete as shown above, except my inner part is pvc pipe instead of a smaller mailbox.

 

[TractorGuy]

Years ago some punks kept running over my mom's mailbox. After the second one got hit in a short period I bought a piece of schedule 80 2" steel pipe and a floor flange to screw on top. Mounted the box on top of that with the pipe about 3' in the ground. Didn't take long before they ran over it again. Pipe was bent about 30 degrees and you could see where the vehicle left the ground and landed about 10 feet away. No telling how much damage it did to the car. Tracks looked like at least one wheel was running on the rim as they got away.

Little B@sterds came back and hit it with a bat or pipe the next time but then they quit.

I asked a guy at Lowes if they still sold the cast iron mailboxes and he said some punk broke his arm hitting one with a bat and his parents sued and won so they quit carrying them.