Rant

[speckledhen]

Mailboxes come in sizes. Take a size 1 1/2 and a size 1. Put the size 1 inside the bigger box then fill the space between the two with concrete. Let set, then put it on your post just like normal. Let 'em hit that one with a bat!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

My BIL and sister have had a lot of trouble with people backing into their mailbox. We came up with all sorts of fun things to do that would damage the cars that kept backing into them. According to my dad (a former insurance claims adjuster), if you purposefully do anything that later causes damage to someone or someone's property YOU will be responsible to pay for the damages. As unfair as it sounds (and IS!) the way the law is written you will be charges if idiot teenagers hit your concrete filled mailbox and are hurt.

(The example he gave was if you line your yard with decorative rocks and someone runs off the road and is hurt or their car is danged by them, YOU can be held responsible.)

Stupid, yes, but be careful when plotting your revenge. You don't want it to spring back on you.

(Please don't shoot the messenger. I argued and argued with him about this one. I think it's stupid too...)

 

[Mahonri]

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My feelings exactly.

 

[speckledhen]

My mailbox is not on my property, but so far, no one has bothered it. Hope they dont make me do something they'll regret. Hey, I figure that getting hurt while committing a crime is their just desserts.

 

[SewingDiva]

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I did this to my poor brother once - I was backing out of his (really long and unlit) drvieway at night

- he was pretty cool about it but I was SO embarresed!

Crushed mailboxes are a senior class ritual in our our town and because of that peoiple encase them in brick pillars like the example from Greyhorsewoman. A granite post is another popular option.

Phyllis

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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someone stole one of our recycling bins with the recycling in it LULS, no joke... it went missing about a week or two after we moved in, from the roadside, THEY TOOK THE RECYCLING TOO LOL

 

[Chicken_Lover4567]

Yeah, out in the country it's pretty bad. My grandmother's mailbox actually got pulled out of the ground and was stolen so now it's concreted into the ground, and a the end of a chain is also in the concrete, attached to a seperate, twice as large block.

 

[EllyMae]

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I do think that a lot will depend on WHY that person ran off the road or was FLYING around the curve. Which is what happened in my case when a man hit my mailbox and totally wrecked the bed of his truck. Wasn't MY fault he was flying around the curve at excessive speed. I have never heard of liability falling on the homeowner in those cases. Look at how many times people run off the road and hit a house and are killed.
I say put in a mailbox that a tornado can't budge and see if the troublemakers come back for more, lol!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I think what Dad was trying to point out to us was that if you maliciously adapt the mailbox and something happens to someone because of it, you are liable. (I think this may be the same silly laws that say if someone breaks into your house and gets hurt while there, they can sue you and sometimes win. Stupid, no?)

Not trying to start anything. Just sharing what dear old dad told us!

 

[djackjr]

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I agree they can sue us for the above,,,sigh
But I did find I can make a decorative mailbox holder from brick, and my wifes nephew is a bricklayer so thats what I think we will do.