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11/03/10, 07:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Indiana
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Another one "Bites the Dust"!
I don't know why they do it, but our mail box got torn down, Monday night.
We have one of those black plastic boxes. They've hit it a couple times, before. You can hit it with a 2x4 and you generally won't break the box, unless the temperature is down below Zero. If it's cold enough the plastic will break. They've hit it a couple times,when they got several others on our road.
And, they never damaged it, except to knock the flag off, easily replaced.
This time they only got ours and one other one, also at the end of a long driveway, out of sight.Our's is about 85 yards from the house, out of sight.
The sniveling, cowardly perpetrators, probably teenagers, had to get out of their car. They broke the cross members from the post, braces & all and even broke the 4x4 post off, snapped it.So, I have to dig the dumb post out of the ground & replace the whole thing. I know, if they want to tear it down. it doesn't much matter what you have out there, it's Gone.
I get along with all my neighbors. Even go over & help out, if I find they need help. I know folks a couple miles, up the road, each way, Good Folks, all of them.
I guess this is just part of "Country Living", Hunnh?
Anyone else have any Good Mail box stories??
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Last edited by Old John; 11/03/10 at 07:23 AM.
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11/03/10, 07:49 AM
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I agree with Pancho
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Old John
Anyone else have any Good Mail box stories??
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When a friend was growing up, kids kept smashing their mailbox non stop. One day her dad put a new one up that looked just like the old ones...this time it was solid steel. Next time the teens drove by to smash it, he leaned out the window and hit it so hard that the baseball bat bounced back off the steel and broke the kid's arm.
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11/03/10, 08:26 AM
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Just replaced mine yesterday, but I had used it since last Halloween when it got hit by a bat.(Waited until after this Halloween) Wasn't bad, just looked looked that way. Mail lady said just leave that way, but I figured, what the heck, the county guy needs a new target for this winter....
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11/03/10, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: EastTN: Former State of Franklin
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I set a motion detector light up on ours that comes on after dark, and put one of those fake camera's with the little blinking LED light on it aimed at the mailbox. That put a stop to it.
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11/03/10, 08:47 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Michigan
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I coach basketball at the local high school. Mine has been smashed several times. I'm fairly sure by disgruntled players. Last time they pulled a metal post out of the ground marking the buried phone cables and used it to smash the box. I've got some ideas if it happens again but it's been good for over a year now!
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11/03/10, 09:00 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Bartow County, GA
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My mailbox is about a mile away at a T intersection.
It and about 20 others were demolished a couple months ago. I replaced mine with one that had a few bullet holes in it.
And we don't think kids today have determination, are focused, are goal orientated .... 
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11/03/10, 09:22 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central TN
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one of my drunk neighbors ran mine over, he denied it yet there was one of his empty 24 oz Bud Ice Light beer cans close by. He always has one of those cans in his hand so it wasn't hard to figure it out.
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11/03/10, 09:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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My brother got tired of having his mail box smashed so he bought a huge new one and set the smaller one inside of it and filled the area between the two with concrete. He said that his new hobby is picking up toothpicks that were formerly wooden baseball bats and collecting aluminum bats. 
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11/03/10, 09:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ouachitas, AR
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Last time mine got hit it was by the Mail lady and I was standing in my driveway when she did it.  She just waved and drove off.....
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11/03/10, 10:48 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Southern Indiana
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It is just one of the few disadvantages of living on a back road.
I put mine on the post using two boards, one is secured to the post, the other with the box is nailed to it from underneath with very short nails. This makes the mailbox almost "quick disconnect" so it normally comes off with very little damage to the box. And I went to a plastic box, no more dents...
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11/03/10, 10:58 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northeastern Oklahoma
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Mine is about 1/2 mile from the house and sits right on the highway, along with seven others, mine closest to the road. It's one of those big, oversized ones. Been here three years and never had a problem until this fourth of July.
Someone put a lit firecracker in it, and it caught the mail on fire and burned everything at least halfway through. Luckily, it was mostly junk mail, but I get a lot of packages...sure glad there weren't any in there that day!
Not sure why they picked on me unless it was just because I was closest to the highway. I get along with everyone out here. 
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11/03/10, 11:37 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: W. Massachusetts
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I lived in Charlotte years ago and a lot of the mailboxes were towers of solid brick. I wonder why. (lol)
My mailbox story is a little different because I was the unwitting perpetrator. When I was 17 I clean ran over my parents' mailbox one night just because I was a new and dumb driver and it was REALLY dark. Yes, it scraped up the car too. My mom's car. When I came downstairs the next morning my parents were sitting there and said "Anything you want to tell us?" Gulp. I was a good kid, though, straight As and no partying, and I sure felt bad about the car and mailbox.
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