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Went out to run some errands earlier, I found this when I got home
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There used to be a mailbox and a 4 foot by 4 foot wooden trash box. I never did find my newspaper box.
Found out who the guy was that ran over my mail box. He actually thought it was my brothers. ( brother is a sheriff deputy and had pulled him over earlier in the day for speeding) The guy has been bragging around town about smashing my mail box. I found a hid-a-key when I cleaned up the mess. I gave it to my brother and it matched the guys truck. He got tickets for leaving the scene of an accident, driving with license suspended and vehicle trespass.
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There used to be a mailbox and a 4 foot by 4 foot wooden trash box. I never did find my newspaper box.
Found out who the guy was that ran over my mail box. He actually thought it was my brothers. ( brother is a sheriff deputy and had pulled him over earlier in the day for speeding) The guy has been bragging around town about smashing my mail box. I found a hid-a-key when I cleaned up the mess. I gave it to my brother and it matched the guys truck. He got tickets for leaving the scene of an accident, driving with license suspended and vehicle trespass.
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Went out to run some errands earlier, I found this when I got home
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There used to be a mailbox and a 4 foot by 4 foot wooden trash box. I never did find my newspaper box.
who did you pizz off?
But my place got him, I had a metal fence Post that was bent over and pointing out into the Pasture. Never did find out who it was, but he could not have made it very far he was leaking a bunch of trans fluid.
i knew a guy who put up a concrete fence, it looked like a split rail wood fence, he painted it brown, it was a good 20yards from the road, someone tried to do the same thing, it did damage the fence, but the truck didnt get far
http://www.concretefence.com/rail.aspx
One trial learning at it's best!
Years ago, my grandfather had a problem with kids running over his mailbox. He and my dad got a 6 foot piece of 4" steel pipe, set it in concrete, and filled it with more concrete. Found glass from a headlight and assorted small parts one morning, but no damage to the mailbox and it was never hit again.
One trial learning at it's best!
I have a 4" piece of pipe in the garage that I had planned to use in the spring. I just drove a fence post in the ground and screwed the mailbox to it. For being run hit 4 times that mailbox has survived well.
I'm flumoxed.
I just can't get my head around those converging tire tracks.[?][?][?]
I'm flumoxed.
Looks as though the vehicle was sideways when it hit.
Had a good friend who worked at AirGas (as I remember). We took a discarded tank and welded on a driveshaft and a angle iron mount for the mailbox. A bit of backhoe work and it was in place. This about a decade ago.
Heard a racket late one night and got out of bed for a look. Limping down the road was what was left of a car. Front fender and right door were badly torn up. I don't figure it went too far.
I called the troopers in the morning after having gone out to survey the damage. Lots of car parts on the ground and the mailbox had broken away from its mounts on the angle iron, though it remained undamaged. The trooper arrived and thought it was hilarious. Total damage (to me) was a couple of fasteners. I think we both agreed that a lesson was likely learned that night.
Since then I've been disappointed. Nobody has seen fit to take a swipe at our mailbox. Must be a coincidence.[:D]
Got tired of having to stop what I am doing and drive 20 miles round trip to get a replacement .
My only recourse is a couple of pieces of green plastic with 2 in. roofing nails in it .
Planted around post where I can move them for mowing .
Have not had a problem for over a year now ![;)]
If someone hit the mail box, it would swing around and hit the car .
Took about 20 years before someone tried it out.
Since then, our mailboxes have been hit twice more. I convinced the Postal Service and TXDOT to move the posts back before the apex of the curve, so that if another vehicle goes off the road, it will miss the boxes. They did, and there have been no more problems.
Mailboxes are cheap. Cars and people are not.
That stated, all my damage has been accidental. I might feel differently if I were plagued with vandalism, as some of you seem to have been.
An idea I had to thwart those who would hit a mailbox with a baseball bat from a passing car:
Buy really big mailbox and a reall small one. Set the big one on end, door up, and put the small one inside. Fill the void between them with concrete. Mount on stout steel post. The next ball player who hit that would be in for a rude shock. On the other hand, if someone hit it accidentally with a vehicle, the heavy mailbox might come loose from the post and go through the windshield, and that would be a bad thing.
Another idea: Get a post office box.
Our mailbox used to bes a perennial target for many years. Kids, beer, you name it.
Had a good friend who worked at AirGas (as I remember). We took a discarded tank and welded on a driveshaft and a angle iron mount for the mailbox. A bit of backhoe work and it was in place. This about a decade ago.
Heard a racket late one night and got out of bed for a look. Limping down the road was what was left of a car. Front fender and right door were badly torn up. I don't figure it went too far.
I called the troopers in the morning after having gone out to survey the damage. Lots of car parts on the ground and the mailbox had broken away from its mounts on the angle iron, though it remained undamaged. The trooper arrived and thought it was hilarious. Total damage (to me) was a couple of fasteners. I think we both agreed that a lesson was likely learned that night.
Since then I've been disappointed. Nobody has seen fit to take a swipe at our mailbox. Must be a coincidence.[:D]
I'm vindictive like that [:D]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
I hope they have a early transmission failure 86 miles from the closest tow truck and after the EXPENSIVE replacement transmission is installed I hope they throw a rod through the side of the block.....Amen.
Amen . . . AMEN for certain.
Glad you found out who did it; since he destroyed a mailbox there might be other charges that can be filed!
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and he told me I couldn't do it due to overkill on the next car to hit it.