Stupid PUNKS!

[charmed one]

This sounds like a CSI episode I saw. Kids were playing baseball with a bat out the window hitting mail boxes. The home owner filled his mailbox with cement and when they came by and hit the mailbox the bat swung around backwards and hit the driver. They crashed and died. The homeowner then hid the mailbox and replaced it with the regular one. They, of course, found it and charged the home owner.

 

[Beau coop]

Ha! Mailbox baseball is an oldie but a goodie. When I was younger a friend of mine was out playing ball- must be a guy thing as I have never heard of girls going out and doing this- he hit one of those concrete mailboxes and it hit back- right into his chest. Luckily he was a big enough guy to live through the bruises and VERY tender sternum he sported for a few weeks! I told him it served him right!

 

[randomchick]

We placed a piece of rebar down the back of our mail box, and painted it to match. It was a lot faster then using cement and it works. Trust me.

 

[PortageGirl]

Our mailbox years ago always got run over by the schoolbus turning around near it. We finally got a bus driver who knew how to drive, but my father replaced that thing a dozen times first. He wanted to do the concrete thing too, but didn't want to have our taxes raised to replace that darn bumper either!

Also, I've heard of people suing somoene because their precious baby boys got hurt trying to destroy a mailbox, but I'm not sure if it's true or not. I remember reading something about it and think it had something to do with the the concrete work being 'hidden' so the boys didn't KNOW they could get hurt. DUH!!! Destruction of property is WRONG!

Well anyway, I was going to do some searching on the subject, and I will do more in a bit, but I found THIS FIRST!

thought it was so funny, I had to share it.

http://uglymailbox.com/tag/concrete-cast-mailbox/

Now I'll go back to looking for the concrete topic... just had share the laughter, hope it's not a hijack of the topic.

 

[1stepcloser]

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/404787/install_a_spring_coil_in_your_mailbox.html?cat=6

This is flipping sweet. Spring coil action...they hit it and it hits back!!! Then they get to explain to their parents what happened to the car!!!

 

[seismic wonder2]

20 years ago My dad was the chief of police in my small Alabama town. I remember three ways the locals dealt with the putzes.
1. One old guy got tired of them running over his mailbox with their junked out car so he got half a telephone pole. had it set about 10 feet in the ground then placed the shiny new mailbox on top and some shrubs around the pole. Two days later around midnight my dad got a call. "there's a Buick wrapped around a mailbox and the Davis place..." I said.

2. One old lady bought two new boxes, put a plastic bag in one mailbox filled it with water and put it in the deep freeze for a few days. She put her mail on hold for a week and set out the new empty box early in the morning so the kids would see it driving to and from school. Just after dark she replaced it with the frozen one. When they drove by, hit the box the bat swung back and broke the rear window and the kids wrist. The kids parents tried to sue for "boobytrapping" the mail box but there was no proof except a slightly dented wet mailbox that leaned to the left.

3. One guy was suffering from mailbox baseball on a regular basis, He set a sound activated camera in a tree close to the mailbox. He got three pictures of motorcycles, one large truck, and a beatuiful shot of an orange F100 (with license plate)with a kid hanging out the side with a bailbox wrapped around a baseball bat.

Most humans are stupid and should be afforded no sympathy.

 

[PortageGirl]

Ooh, in my searching, I found a cool idea. Get a really large mailbox and a normal size one, take the door off the normal sized one and put it inside the large one, screw it to the floor of the large one. Then, pour concrete in the space around the two. Make sure you don't fill it too full, so the door of the large one stays functional. Now, you mount the whole thing and it just looks like a big mailbox.

I still haven't found the real regulation, but have found lots of interesting ideas like that.

Another one is to drive in a long metal fencepost, put aluminum vent pipe around it, and fill THAT with concrete. Mount the mailbox on it, also saw the same sort of thing but with PVC pipe, guess it depends what you had laying around, I don't think I'd like the look of the PVC pipe much, the aluminum didn't look too bad, sort of industrial. I also saw a pretty one with a LOT of bright whiteagrigate stones in it, filled a tube with stones, poured really runny cement in it, then pealed away the tube. Not sure how well it would hold up, but it looked nice.

 

[deb1]

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My guess is that the writers of the episode were at one point the young people responsible for knocking over mailboxes and that they have waited for years to get back at someone who put cement in a mail box.

 

[bgelber]

Last year during Christmas break a bunch of kids decided to go mailbox bashing to the tune of 30 mailboxes, even a couple of brick one. If they couldn't beat it down with a ball bat they blew it up I do mean literally blew it up. Well they were caught each "child's" parents because they were all under age had to pay $700 per mail box and the kids where send to boot camp plus put on probation. Served them right but I think they should have had to replace the boxes plus the fines since the homeowners didn't get anything from it but a busted box.

So let's figure this out $700 per box X 30 boxes = $21,000 per person in the car (4 kids ) so that equals $84,000. that the local government received from that one mailbox bashing.

 

[pbjmaker]

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The home owners should have at least got new mailboxes out of that deal - great punishment but wrong on the goverment to not hold them accountable for paying for the new box.