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Brad

12-11-2001 02:55:23

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Hey everybody, thanks for the info on how to prevent the neighborhood punks from wrecking yer mailbox. I think the best idea is the mailbox that swings on a post and returns to center with a spring. Being a toolmaker I could make a brick $hithouse of a mailbox out of steel tubing and cement it all in, but I would not want the liability of it. Of course the best way to catch em would be with a camera mounted to a tree and tthen get the license plate then go to the cops with the evidence then go over little johnnys parents house with the cops.

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little johnny

12-11-2001 14:02:25

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

We'll just find a another way to get your mailbox, might even dynamite it! Just Kidding. I beat a few in my time, here is the only way to prevent it, after the first beatin, just keep the old decrepid junky mailbox in place and get you a P.O. box in town, we would never hit the junkers, there just wasn't no fun in it, Ahh but the brand spanking shiny new ones, man what a target.

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an honest poster

12-11-2001 18:37:53

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Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to little johnny, 12-11-2001 14:02:25

finally above, an honest poster. all other posters must ta bin doogooders that never did and teenage pranks?

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Brad

12-12-2001 03:29:54

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Re: Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to an honest poster, 12-11-2001 18:37:53

even in my day of being a teenager I was not STUPID enough to bash in mail boxes. I knew that it was a federal offense. I could not see paying a large fine and possible lockup time just for vandelism.

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slim

12-11-2001 09:32:24

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

If you're like me, your mailbox is not on your property. My mailbox is on the road right-of-way. If you are the same, I would not put up anything too "unforgiving" because of liability problems. I would use a fairly strong or impact resistant plastic box on a "break away" mounting. The box itself will give when it breaks off the post and hopefully won't damage the box or cause permanent damage the punk. Then all you would need to do is remount the box on the post. I had a car hit a heavy plastic one by accident once. It broke away from the post and flew about 50-75 feet. The box was undamaged. All I had to do was replace the post and remount the box.

However, if your box is on your property, I would think you could do as you please since they would be trespassing while attempting to destroy your property.

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Brad

12-11-2001 08:11:08

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

I think that you could push large boulders up to the mailbox post because if a car hits a boulder at say 35MPH, the car gets smashed up but the people in the car are not hurt, at least not badly. I think you have to worry about the mailbox itself crashing threw the windsheild and killing somebody

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Jim (Mi)

12-11-2001 09:33:50

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Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 08:11:08

My concern was mom and dad do not have their seat belts on and go thru the windshield. Do not want to look in the back seat and tell the kids what happened to mom and dad.

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12-11-2001 07:42:03

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

I think the thing that bothers me the most is someone who has zero respect for others property. I am in a situation now where the county destroyed my fence in the process of cutting brush with a powered brush cutter, when confronted about it the county did replace my posts, but told me I was likely to get sued because people could not see around my corner. Then the neighbor decided they didn't cut enough and took it upon himself to push my repaired fence over with his deere, enter my property and cut more of my trees (I did not catch him in the act, but the green on my posts told the tale). I notified the county that I will do what I wish with my property including using the corner as a depository for brush now. (Not losing any more trees now). I am also reinforcing my fence with pipe and sucker rod in an attempt to keep what is mine. Funny thing, no one ever thought about asking first if they could cut inside my fence. Too late now.

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big fred - it ain't the local cops

12-11-2001 06:59:27

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

For mailbox tampering it's a visit from the Feds. I know a feller who got a visit from the FBI for shootin' a hole in a mailbox. He don't do that anymore, nor do any of his buddies that heard about it.

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Steven@nd

12-11-2001 08:24:12

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Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to big fred - it ain't the local cops, 12-11-2001 06:59:27

Had a friend who shot a hole in a mailbox. Feds came and took him to court. He spent a few days in jail, paid a nice fine, and did community service. We dont go for that kind of $H** around here.

Steven

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Glenn(WV): Now that you mention it . . .

12-11-2001 06:08:31

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

I have seen people build brick enclosures for mailboxes. They are rougly a foot wider and one brick wider than the mailbox is deep. The box is set in the brick at the time the brick is laid with only the door itself sticking out. From the road, it looks like a cornerpost or something. They're pretty stout, but then again you have the liability thing(grrrrr . . .)

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Jim (Mi)

12-11-2001 07:00:05

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Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Glenn(WV): Now that you mention it . . ., 12-11-2001 06:08:31

Yeh, imagine a youngster flying down a dirt road, and loosing control,
or sliding in one on the snow. Hate to kill someone over a mailbox. That is why I moved my huge rocks back, could not live with myself if someone died because I wanted to salvage my box or lawn. Just not worth it. I think of it as in today's society 10 year olds are planning mass shootings in schools. If the extent of a kids terror is a mailbox bashing, I can live with that.

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Brad

12-11-2001 08:08:25

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Re: Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Jim (Mi), 12-11-2001 07:00:05

I used to work with a guy whos grandfather used to push large boulders into his farm field because kids would take their cars and drive through his corn fields, then when a kid hits a boulder....WHAM!!!!.... His car is smashed up bad enough to where it aint driveable and then the farmer takes the car and pushes it across the field into the road with his tractor.

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Jim (Mi)

12-11-2001 09:04:09

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Re: Re: Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 08:08:25

That's a little different than everyday people on a road hitting black ice and plowing into bricks. Would be hilarious to see a car being pushed by the tractor thru the field. Definately would make my top ten list. I am sure he was real careful when he pushed to. My friend slid thru a three way stop in the winter into a farmers field. He could not go in reverse so he went forward to get a little momentum to go in reverse. His Intrepid fell into a corn row. That was a fun bill for the ins company I'm sure.

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kev@ia

12-11-2001 04:36:37

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Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 02:55:23

How about a mailbox that is motorized and on a timer so that it presents its self for mail during the day and retracts at night?
farmer kev

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Brad

12-11-2001 05:11:53

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Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to kev@ia, 12-11-2001 04:36:37

I heard of a guy who used to go out every morning on the way to work and put his mailbox and post into a piece of PVC pipe and then when he got home in the afternoon he would lift the mailbox and post up out of the PVC pipe and take it in the garage. (pain in the a**)

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Dick Davis

12-11-2001 05:27:16

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Re: Re: Re: thanks for the mailbox advice in reply to Brad, 12-11-2001 05:11:53

Can you spell Claymoore ?

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