No Big Deal

[other dog]

...it's just a mailbox. That's what I would have told the person that knocked it off the pole and into the ditch today, if they had walked over and told me they had hit it.

We were sitting inside with the TV on this morning when we heard a loud noise. A funeral was going on at the little cemetary across the road, we just figured it was caused by something they were doing. It was. Somebody had hit the mailbox, knocking it completely off the post. 

I went out and pulled the rest of the board off the post with a crowbar, found a piece of board in the shed that was already cut, took 2 nails and 4 screws out there and had it fixed in about 5 minutes. I even waited until after the funeral to fix it.

That's the only thing about it that kind of pissed me off, that nobody said a word. They knocked it completely off, the board had three or four 16 or 20D nails in it, the post was solid, we heard it in the house- so you know they had to know they hit it.

Not a word.

 

[Mark T]

Isn't that some kind of federal offense ?

[davehummell]

A few years ago, there was some kids that liked to hit my mailbox. One morning I found it in the yard all banged up. So, I made a new one out of 1/8 plate. A few nights later here come the crew I waited and bang the kid hit the box with a metal bat. The hitter let loose a barrage of curse words and no one ever hit the box with a bat again. That metal bat made such a nice sound when it wacked my mailbox I can still hear it and I bet that kid felt it in his hands for some time. My girlfriend said I was a cruel person for setting up the kid like that, but I told her it was better than me chasing them down and me putting a 44 mag thru their engine block.

[tjc transport]

7 hours ago, Mark T said:

Isn't that some kind of federal offense ?

yes it is..

7 hours ago, davehummell said:

A few years ago, there was some kids that liked to hit my mailbox. One morning I found it in the yard all banged up. So, I made a new one out of 1/8 plate. A few nights later here come the crew I waited and bang the kid hit the box with a metal bat. The hitter let loose a barrage of curse words and no one ever hit the box with a bat again. That metal bat made such a nice sound when it wacked my mailbox I can still hear it and I bet that kid felt it in his hands for some time. My girlfriend said I was a cruel person for setting up the kid like that, but I told her it was better than me chasing them down and me putting a 44 mag thru their engine block.

about 30 years ago at the other house we had a bunch of kids that would do the same thing...

and a drunk across the street that would hit the post backing out of his driveway. 

so i sunk a 10 foot 6 inch steel pipe in the ground, and filled it with concrete. than built a brick pillar around the steel pipe. and built the box out of 1/4 steel diamond plate. cost nothing but my time and labor because i had the materials laying in the back of the body shop yard.

about two weeks later i heard the ringing at 2 am. and than never again. 

the cops did catch them after the driver took the bat swinger to the hospital to get his broken wrists treated. seems they were doing around 15 mph when the bat hit the unmovable box and he broke his wrists instead. 
the next night i heard the crunch of the drunk backing his car into the post.

cops came and got him too. 

that box and post are still there standing proud. 

[mowerman]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarite I put somewhat of a custom job together when I first bought  this place tricked out mailbox within a week some assclown mowed it down flat wasn’t even usable every thing busted so I replaced it with the ugliest box I could find 16 years later and they can’t be bothered with this one… bob

[other dog]

I took a load of steel to a bridge job in northern VA. one time, DC area. They had the left lane of the street blocked off with orange cones- I pulled in behind the cones to get unloaded, the crane was on the street below. 

Rush hour traffic in the morning, this guy on a Harley rides by with his left foot sticking out and knocks over every single cone. The guy at the job site said "this a$$ hole does it every morning. Every morning - one of these days I'm going to fill one of them with concrete and see how he likes that". Great idea, but I doubt that he actually ever did it.

[Bullheaded]

You wonder what goes through some people's heads. 

My biggest enemy to our mailboxes here are snow plow seat covers that don't know where their wings are, LOL

[Bullheaded]

When you turn off my rural road you are on a secondary highway. There is some guy on that highway, I don't know if he is just trying to get payouts or lawsuits or what? But EVERY winter he parks a car right on the white line of the shoulder. Nothing all summer, only winter. They are usually black Chrysler 300's, but this last winter it was a 90's Mustang.

It's entertaining watching the plows bury those cars all winter. This spring when the giant snow bank finally melted, every panel on that Mustang was caved in and all the glass was exploded out of it, LOL

[tjc transport]

56 minutes ago, other dog said:

I took a load of steel to a bridge job in northern VA. one time, DC area. They had the left lane of the street blocked off with orange cones- I pulled in behind the cones to get unloaded, the crane was on the street below. 

Rush hour traffic in the morning, this guy on a Harley rides by with his left foot sticking out and knocks over every single cone. The guy at the job site said "this a$$ hole does it every morning. Every morning - one of these days I'm going to fill one of them with concrete and see how he likes that". Great idea, but I doubt that he actually ever did it.

about 20 years ago a friend got pulled over and handed a $1,500 ticket for knocking over a traffic cone. cop said he purposely swerved into it. 
Al went to court and explained to the judge he swerved to avoid a car that cut into his lane and that he would never purposely hit a cone, because he owned a construction company and had seen the effects of idiots in the closed lane. 
the judge dismissed the charges. 

[BOBWhite]

The main enemy to them around here is the road grader or the occasional cow that gets out and thinks its a scratching post. 30ft combine headers can hit them too but that's usually my fault and no one else's. 

Also my goodness its green over there! It already looks like its winter here with the grass all being brown already. 

[Freightrain]

I got home last summer to see my box mangled up and the post swung around at a 45* angle to the road.  I was like WTF???  I was pissed.  The school busses drive thru my yard to cut the corner so I figured as such.

I get around to the back of the house and find a new mailbox sitting by the door and a note from the mailman apologizing for doing it.  Seems he forgot to close the door before pulling away and it spun the pole around.

I tried manually turning that pipe. Nope. I had to get the Mack out and put a chain on it to swivel it back straight.  Then a new board to attach the new box.  Looks like it never got hit.

Still waiting to put some 2x4s in the yard with 16 penny spikes to flatten the tires on those damn school busses.  The grass grows back all summer, then it's all tore up for the rest of school time.  MFrs.  I put some metal fence stakes up around the corner and the next day they were bent into the ground by the first bus.

 

Edited August 1, 2022 by Freightrain

[theakerstwo]

My mail box is mounted to the end of a cummins crank shaft still bolted to a flywheel as a mount to set on.its been run over two times in 44 years but only needs to be set up when run over.

[The Rubber Duck 006]

Guys I went to high school with decided it would be awesome to steal a construction barrel.  Little did they know that alot of times they are sealed at the bottom and hiding a 50lbs sand bag inside. Sucked the kid right out the back of that Chevy S-10 Hahahaha 😆 😂 🤣 Dude drove bout 2 miles before they noticed he was missing from the bed 😆 🤣 😂 😹 

[Mean Green]

Years ago my brother and his buddy liked to go steal road signs and hit mail boxes one guy kept putting his up and somone would smash it again well one day he put a oak 6x6 in with a steel pipe on top for the box so no one could smash it . Well not to back down from a challenge my brother and his buddy cut the post off with a chain saw took it home cut f**k you in the pipe with a torch and flattened it with my dad's cat 955 then through it back in the guys yard did I mention my brother was an a hole lol

[mowerman]

Certainly sounds like it… Bob

[Joey Mack]

Here in my 'Hood'..  my mailbox stays put,  it can spin if hit..   We just have 'Drive by shootings' Like the one last monday..   20 rounds were fired..  anyway, just lookin for a laugh..   Jojo

[Joey Mack]

back in the '80's..  we lived in Maine, on a country road..  6 houses in a 2 mile stretch,  our house was 500 feet off the road,,   (Perfect place to live) anyway,  same issue, someone kept hitting our mail box. the tire marks made it look like they pulled up to it and pushed it over.. At night we could see the headlights when they did it..  then they would squeal the tires as they left.  pretty 'Ballsy'  ...   My Dad went out there and dug a hole were the tire marks were, away from where the mail truck ran.  he put a piece of plywood over the hole, and covered it back up with the sand that was around the mail box.. It worked..  when they came back and fell in the hole,,  we could here the tires spinning trying to get out..  My dad couldnt get to the end of the long driveway, before they got un-stuck and left..  That was the last time....   accept for when someone put a snake in it..  jojo

[GA_Dave]

My Mother-in-law, who lives in a rural area up near Buffalo, had an issue with her mailbox repeatedly being run over by the snowplow.  The mailbox was the proper distance from the road, but that didn't stop it from being hit three or four times each winter for about three years.  Finally she asked my Brother-in-law if he had a solution  He worked for the local power company and sometimes drove an auger truck.  One day during the summer, he augered  a new hole about 4' deep next to the mailbox.  That Saturday, he returned and installed a 7' piece of railroad rail in concrete.  The next Saturday, he transferred the mailbox to the new post and removed the old one.  First decent snowfall that year, the snowplow hit her mailbox again, but this time, it spun the plow around and damaged the wing.  It's been over 20 years since and they have never hit it again!

[cpgeneration]

when it is dark in the morning and you are backing your new pickup out of your driveway, watch out for your mail box across from the driveway.... ask me how I know.... tailgate time..

[mowerman]

That’s messed up… Bob

[Joey Mack]

It's Funny how this happen's..  I just saw on the local news in my town... Mailbox bashing spree with baseball bats is on the rise..  I may need to put that spare 1/2 sheet of 1/4" steel sitting behind my shop, to some good use..    Maybe make a spare mail box, just in-case...  jojo

[other dog]

On 7/31/2022 at 9:39 PM, Mark T said:

Isn't that some kind of federal offense ?

Must be, this gummint agent showed up here immediately after it happened. She even said "i'm from the gummint, and i'm here to help!..help- any way I can"

So I said "I ain't falling for your stupid B.S, now git on 'way from h'yeah!"

And she said "fine then!" Then she looked at the evidence, took some pictures, and said "this is terrible- do you want to press charges against the evil-doers?"

And I said "nah, it's just a mail box- now beat it".

 

[Mark T]

16 minutes ago, other dog said:

Must be, this gummint agent showed up here immediately after it happened. She even said "i'm from the gummint, and i'm here to help!..help- any way I can"

So I said "I ain't falling for your stupid B.S, now git on 'way from h'yeah!"

And she said "fine then!" Then she looked at the evidence, took some pictures, and said "this is terrible- do you want to press charges against the evil-doers?"

And I said "nah, it's just a mail box- now beat it".

 

You did the right thing. 

[HarryS]

...maybe do a little paper work before you run her off.

[Dirtymilkman]

I hope you checked her credentials.