Victim gets even

[KY Gun Geek]

It was reported that it worked so well the first time that the car had an accident.

Lawsuit waiting to happen!

I grew up in a subdivision. There was a house situated on a curve that had their mail box hit a lot of times by people going too fast and running up in the yard. Guy sunk a piece of well casing full of concrete in the ground. 2 weeks later, car hit it, person was hurt, guy lost everything, including the house.

 

[Car Doc]

Lawsuit waiting to happen!

I grew up in a subdivision. There was a house situated on a curve that had their mail box hit a lot of times by people going too fast and running up in the yard. Guy sunk a piece of well casing full of concrete in the ground. 2 weeks later, car hit it, person was hurt, guy lost everything, including the house.

Yup that is probably right all over the country its the same here my neighbors house 5 doors down is dead square in the middle of a county blacktop curve. And there used to be an outdoor party spot out here and some drunk was always ending up in his yard tearing things up.

So he does the same thing and sinks chunks of drill collars (real real heavy 10-12" oil well drill stem weights) in about 6' and sticking out about 4'. He got told by DOT and county sheriff to pull them. So he put in a big chain link fence with pretty stout post every 4' or so and a berm as far as I know there hasn't been any incidents with that so he is glad I am sure.

 

[JDgreen227]

There was an episode of "CSI" a few years back that started with a pair of teens in a convertible smashing into a tree. As the story unfolded, it turned out that a farmer was so tired of having his mailbox vandalized he rigged up a quick-remove concrete filled box, and the kids had tried to bash his box and ended up smashing the car. He was caught and prosecuted. As much as I hate vandalism of any kind, it IS illegal to have something solid and heavy as a mailbox.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I have a friend thats a farmer. He has a large mail bax that goes infront of his mail box. The big box is a Parcel box. It had been hit several times on the weekends. One week He stuck a HyCycle boom in the decorative block on the house. He ordered one from the brickyard in NC he did busines with. The carrier put it in the parcel box and he didnt get home till about 11 pm. At 1230 that night some kids batted it and destroyed the block and box. he did find the bat and a window. Just found the local teen missing the windlw. He called the law and and got it cleared. THe next time it happened a few years ago he had ordered a new chem pump and the new kids bashed it.

 

[hosspuller]

If the game is hitting the box from a moving car ... A speed bump or pot hole in front of the box is a game changer. Doesn't bother the delivery person

 

[300UGUY]

There was an episode of "CSI" a few years back that started with a pair of teens in a convertible smashing into a tree. As the story unfolded, it turned out that a farmer was so tired of having his mailbox vandalized he rigged up a quick-remove concrete filled box, and the kids had tried to bash his box and ended up smashing the car. He was caught and prosecuted. As much as I hate vandalism of any kind, it IS illegal to have something solid and heavy as a mailbox.

We had a neighbor that took a old boiler that was about 12 ft long. He sunk about 6 ft into the ground, filled it with crete. He cut a shelf into the road side, with a door. He had it up about a month, before the county made him take it down.

 

[slowzuki]

Neighbour keep getting his hit by two kids I knew, Dave and Jeff who hit all the mailboxes from a moving truck hanging from the roll bar. Neighbour replaced his box with a 1/4" plate one and set the post in cement. That weekend Dave was swinging while Jeff was the support staff egging him on. The bat bounced off the box and swung back and nailed Jeff in the, hmm, reproductive organs at high speed.

Not sure if it was related but shortly after that Jeff committed suicide. Dave is actually a somewhat respectable adult now who teaches school.

 

[turnkey4099]

I've only lost one..but then I'm on a major highway. Gaurd rail starts just past the mail box post. Car took the gaurrail square on, did a flip and roll. Guy crawls out says "Iwoke up just in time to watch it happen" not damaged.

Puzzler was how he got the mailbox but didnt' touch the post. Bit of CSI and the answer was he got the box with the passenger side mirror.

Also had to replace the prior one after the 2nd time the bus driver knocked it off backign into thedrive to turn around (end of her route). I called the school bus garage and lodged a complaint. This was middleof winter andthe first question they asked was "how wide is the drive and is it plowed..

My answer cured the problem...probably permanently "It is a three car drive and cleared of snow all three lanes."

I hope the driver got at least some remedial training

Harry K

 

[chad22]

Also had to replace the prior one after the 2nd time the bus driver knocked it off backing into the drive to turn around (end of her route).

I remember when I was 11. Our bus driver, (A guy) was sliding on the icy roads. As soon as he pulled out the school parking lot and got onto the road he immediately slammed the side of the school bus into the 3 mail boxes.

:laughing: I was laughing the whole time. He stopped the bus and got out and personally went up to each house to notify and apologize for each mail box.

He had the foul mouth of a sailor the whole trip home. :laughing:

I had never heard him talk that way for the 3 years I rode his bus. That is until that day.

Chad

 

[Taylortractornut]

Back in 03 I bought my portable welder and I was doing a job on a farm. The farmer came to ask me if i could do a little welding job on the road. I went to look at it. His 15 year old son was going down the new road in a 4430 JD tractor with a trailed chisel plow. It wa folded up and he was meeting a car. He eased over and one of the shanks snagged a mail box an post. It broke the hitch in the plow. Turns out when the county moved the road their was an old center pivot post. The county used it for a mailbox stand. The 4430 left black paw marks in the pavement.

 

[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 !!!