Mail box got run over last night..

[Yetti]

...I bet they have a hell of a dent!
mine was mounted on a well casing about 50" in the ground. they hit it hard enough they broke the pipe below ground level

 

[Bullitt]

Yep, they will have a major dent on their bumper.

That sounds like a drunk driver to hit your mail box and keep driving.

 

[theoldchick]

Yep, probably a drunk driver who doesn't remember what he hit.

 

[NYboy]

Kids here make a game of hittiing them with baseball bats as they drive by.

 

[Glenmar]

Good thing you were not out there gettin the mail.

 

[GardenerGal]

Whacking mailboxes with baseball bats is a regional sport here. It's the same ol' same ol' - --- kids with nothing better to do, driving around late at night looking for trouble.

Though I once accidentally "offed" someone's mailbox. One of my schoolmates let me ride her pony one day, and as I rode by one of her neighbor's mailboxes the pony bolted and she brushed against the box and her tail got snagged on the post. She took off with me --- and the mailbox dragging from her tail down the road. Of course the box dragging from her tail and the noise it made made her panic more.

I was bareback so all I could do is wrap my legs around her and try to rein her in. I can't remember how I finally stopped her. But I unsnagged her tail, walked her back carrying the mailbox and post, and stuck it back in the ground where it got pulled out. It was suprisingly only slightly scratched, so I kind of tiptoed away and until BYC it has been my evil secret for more than 40 years.

 

[fuzziebutt]

Purposely smashing mailboxes is a federal offense. My brother is a brickmason, and had a really pretty one on the side of the road that the kids that were just bored and looking for trouble kept smashing with a ball bat. He cemented a 5in metal pipe in the ground, and filled the pipe with cement also. Then he proceeded to build his pretty mailbox just like he always did. It was hit only one more time,and it didn't come down, then it was never bothered again.

 

[dewey]

Good thing you were not out there gettin the mail.

Glenmar, I can't recall at the moment...was it you that that happened to a while back? I recall what a scary situation that was!

Yetti, that's crazy. Big dent, oh, yeah!

 

[geepy]

The people a few blocks over had there mail box blown up. Even had the bomb squad out. Mine was smashed a couple of years ago with a baseball bat.
I guess the kids around here are really bored.............

 

[GardenerGal]

The people a few blocks over had there mail box blown up. Even had the bomb squad out. Mine was smashed a couple of years ago with a baseball bat.
I guess the kids around here are really bored.............

That is really scary. It's more than being bored, and I hope those "kids" get caught and dealt with before they escalate to something even more destructively violent.