Stupid PUNKS!

[fasbendera]

Growing up our mailbox had the snowplow enemy. My dad fixed that by welding a metal wagon wheel onto another metal wagon wheel (forming a L shape with the wheels if you can picture). He had the wagon axel and he dug in a 55 gallon drum, sunk the axle into drum filled with concrete, mounted the wheel on the axle and put the mailbox on the vertical wheel. When it was hit it spun around. He made sure the height and distance from the road met all of the post office requirements.

 

[GrayDragon]

I'm just glad I didn't leave the packages I was mailing out in the mailbox overnight.

My friend told me she'd pick me up on her way into town so I could drop stuff at the post office, but I'm starting to think she forgot.

I've got the mailbox back up but it's kind of rickety. Blah. I'm going to get my catapult out of the garage, fill it with compost and that dead raccoon the dog found, and wait for these jerks to try again. Take that!

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Friends of mine kept having their mail ox knocked over so they got a new metal pole for it..that was a bit wider...and longer and burried it and filled it with concrete... didnt happen again

This is what we did too, we have a notorious county for mailbox bashers. DH put an iron pipe just high enough up to hit the radiator. We found out later we can get in trouble for doing that (ain't that a stinker!!! Just like the robber who fell through a roof robbing a grocery store, sued and WON after he went to prison!!) but we decided, "what pipe? We just used what was already there!!" We haven't had a problem in years, but other people sure do!!!

 

[Alleychick]

Since were talking bout stupid punks ill give u my two cents. The other day some kid threw a recliner out of the back of there truck and into our sideditch on the corner of our property. Really ticked me off since i seen them do it as i was walking across the backyard. Told my husband about it and he said he would take care of it blah blah blah!! That nite the same kids i assume, came back and caught the chair on FIRE!!! In our sideditch on our property! I called the sheriff and ofcourse they were already gone by the time they got there but did have a plate #. So thats that, just wanted to rant abou it!

 

[GrayDragon]

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Unfortunately, in some areas, it can be considered booby-trapping. To further the stupidity, I once had a friend nearly end up in jail because she got tired of having her lunch stolen and spiked her sandwich with...name of the substance is escaping me but it's a syrupy stuff used to induce vomit and explosive diarrhea. The lunch thief ended up in the hospital and the charge was something like 'malicious intent'.

This was in Oklahoma though, I'm guessing it varies from state to state.

 

[GrayDragon]

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I got the plate # the first time these kids pulled that stunt. The sheriff took the number from me, shrugged, and said 'boys will be boys, best not to make sure your mailbox stands out, they like to hit the fancy ones'.

Talked to a different guy this time, he was a lot more polite to me but since I didn't have a plate number, not much he could do. Looked like the same vehicle but I can't honestly be 100% certain of that. He did advise me to let the post office know too as they have a file and their file can make it a federal case if they ever do catch the kids in the act.

 

[Boyd]

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Unfortunately, in some areas, it can be considered booby-trapping. To further the stupidity, I once had a friend nearly end up in jail because she got tired of having her lunch stolen and spiked her sandwich with...name of the substance is escaping me but it's a syrupy stuff used to induce vomit and explosive diarrhea. The lunch thief ended up in the hospital and the charge was something like 'malicious intent'.

This was in Oklahoma though, I'm guessing it varies from state to state.

and how liberal your court system is.

I put visene (spelling? eyedrops) in a 2 liter of coke because some turd bucket kept stealing my pop at work. Well when Joe had explosive diarrhea and had to leave work because of the cramping I laughed. The fool tried to have me fired, and the boss laughed at him. He told him that for all he knew, I was using it as a laxative for myself, and ended up firing him for stealing my pop.

That's why I have a hard time dealing with liberal minded peeps who think its ok to sue after you've done bad and gotten hurt in the process.

 

[GrayDragon]

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Interesting.

Apparently Oklahoma is now liberal, and California (where I spiked my lunch and the law enforcement officer told the complainant to 'piss off') is not.

Huh. Imagine that.

 

[Boyd]

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Interesting.

Apparently Oklahoma is now liberal, and California (where I spiked my lunch and the law enforcement officer told the complainant to 'piss off') is not.

Huh. Imagine that.

I never said it was, but if you lived in the Midwest where I currently reside....... You'd be a little jaded. You are a common sense sort of person in my books, many people in my state aren't.

 

[GrayDragon]

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I've lived in California, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Montana, Nevada, and now Minnesota. The only state I do not currently have a friend residing in is Montana, and that's only because Angie is currently living with her mother in Kentucky who is going through chemo.

I've found the problems are much the same in the 'liberal' states as they are in the 'conservative' states. Both are often corrupt, though the flavor of the corruption does tend to vary a bit.

Liberal courts, Conservative courts, whatever state you are in all I've ever found changes is the accent of the official who is screwing you over.


In a conservative area, I was a white-looking woman who dated a black man. Honestly, after that, I prefer living among liberals.