[Shop-talk] Mailbox to end all mailboxes
gordies garage
mg_garage at comcast.net
Mon Jun 29 17:17:03 MDT 2009
That may be, but when my mailbox was taken off by a baseball bat, I put a
4x6 into a couple of feet of concrete and lag bolted two mailboxes on top of
it. Yes, two, the small one inside of the larger one and a couple of inches
of concrete between the two. They tried the 'new' mailbox some time later
and I heard the WHACK, then several expletives. That was nearly 20 years
ago and no one has even tried since.
Gordie
> When it comes to intentional acts, vandalism, the problem is that whatever
> clever idea you come up with can be taken as a challenge to the
> delinquent, now that you've made him look bad in front of his fellow
> delinquents. Then he may feel obligated to come back for a more
> aggressive second attempt. The only thing that I think has made a dent in
> this sort of behavior is the ubiquitousness of video surveillance. You
> never know when you'll be caught by a camera. And then you have to
> explain to mom what you were really doing out in her car Saturday night.
>
>
> At 11:25 AM 6/29/2009, Mullen, Tim (IS) wrote:
>>I remember seeing a clever mailbox "post". The owner had gotten tired of
>>people knocking his box off, so he "hardened it".
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