Mailbox Bashers At It Again!

**dolphin** · 11-01-2005, 07:03 AM

I woke up at 3:30 am and came into the computer room. The window is open and I had just logged on to FV cause I couldn't sleep due to my back hurting.

Suddenly, I heard a lot of loud "pops" down the road. At first I thought it might be gunshots! So I hear a vehicle heading toward my house. Run to the living room (to avoid being shot, lol) and heard the vehicle stop in front of my house and hear more loud "pops". Realized they were beating the heck out of mailboxes and I opened my front door, turned on the porch light and yelled at them to stop! I heard one guy say, "go, go, go!" and off they went leaving a poor defenseless mailbox laying on the ground. It was my neighbors (empty house now). It is right beside mine! I called 911 but of course they won't be able to do a darn thing. All I saw was a big dark truck with no lights on. My mailbox appears to be ok on one side but I couldn't see the otherside with my spotlight so will have to wait till morning to survey it. This is the second one we've put up in 2 years due to vandals.

Atleast with my waking up and realizing what they were doing I may have saved my mailbox this time. Why do young guys think it's fun to destroy our mailboxes? I just don't get it!

**seatosea** · 11-01-2005, 07:21 AM

I don't understand it, what a shame.

**Darlene** · 11-01-2005, 07:23 AM

Some kids (yese it's usually kids) have too much time on their hands and little parental supervision. Maybe they'd understand if a bat were taken to everything they own like cars,cd's, computers...better yet give their fav stuff to some needy teens who are good kids & help others. That would fry their butts.

**nodmicks** · 11-01-2005, 07:59 AM

UGH! We've had mail box problems to but for us is th posts getting broke. Our post keeps getting shorter and shorter!
I have heard the rubbermaid mail boxes are supposed to be dent proof!

**daddys3chicks** · 11-01-2005, 08:23 AM

How sad. A friend of mine has a rural mailbox. She bought her DH a John Deere Tractor Mailbox because he loves tractors. Of course it got bashed in no time. So sad.

**dolphin** · 11-01-2005, 09:22 AM

Grrrr! I just went out and checked my mailbox now that it's daylight. They bashed in the door to my mailbox. I pryed it open and bent the door around so it will atleast open and shut a little but we will have to replace it.

**Jayne** · 11-01-2005, 09:39 AM

So sorry about your mailbox

...This is one of the stupidest pranks

!!!...My dd did this with a few of her friends many years ago, well they got caught and dh and I made her go personally to the people and apologize and pay for a new mailbox... The people were poor and had lawn chairs for their furniture

....I don't remember why they singled out this person, probably it was someone from school that they didn't get along with..Dd just recently told me how ashamed she was of the stupid things she did and she is teaching her son to be respectful of other peoples property....

**Mamaw** · 11-01-2005, 07:42 PM

It happens alot in my area. It is just such a waste.
I have heard of a way to help stop it though. Since you already have to replace the mail box, buy two of them. One a bit smaller than the other. Put the smaller one inside the larger one and pour cement between them. It might be a bit harder to put up on a post but when they hit it with a bat or whatever, it will give them some resistance instead of crumbling so easily. Maybe it will cause some soreness in the arm!

**rusti** · 11-01-2005, 08:16 PM

our mailbox was always being used as a target with a bat. we spent $100 about 8 years ago and had a big square one welded out of steel and had steel post that we concreted 3 feet in the ground. since then no more baseball bats have taken down the mailbox BUT someone did put explosives in it and blew off the door!!!LOL we found it on the other side of the highway in the borrow ditch! we just put a piece of made made "wood" on it for the door. looks shoddy but it works. rubbermaid was a waste of $$$ as it was just a couple of months b4 it was bashed in.

**Kimberlina** · 11-01-2005, 11:47 PM

I feel your pain- mine keeps getting hit by the customers of the business next door- and they NEVER stop and say, "hey, do you think I just ran over something important, like a person?" No, they just keep right on going....

**mom2matty** · 11-01-2005, 11:51 PM

How awful!!!

**pita1213** · 11-04-2005, 06:02 PM

i'm just giggling to myself about the mailbox in a mailbox and the concrete poured in between them. onw good smack with a wood bat could break the wood bat. and the kick off that with an aluminum bat has got to be a killer. oh boy, that might teach them a lesson.

**Michelle** · 11-04-2005, 07:27 PM

Sorry that happened to you. What a stupid prank

**Missy** · 11-04-2005, 07:35 PM

maybe fill it with concrete, bricks, or rocks, dirty diapers???? Talk to the mailman before hand, lol. I had people stealing my mail about a year ago. I talked to mine and he helped us out, first he let us move it (got the paperwork we needed to fill out and helped us with that) and he had some suggestions beyond that.

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 11-04-2005, 11:38 PM

The mailbox in the mailbox idea is from TWG!! Trust good ol' Amy to come up with another great idea to thrat dimwitted teens with more time than sense.

Let's see...could you rig it with a balloon full of wierd colore dpaint to blow up when the door is opened> Just make sure to take it out before the postal carrier gets there!