Rural/Farm Life

fasttense

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3. Sounds like they ran over it with their harvest equipment

Sat Oct 26, 2013, 07:14 AM

Oct 2013

They should offer to pay you.

Here we have semi-monthly roving bands of teenage boys who go and knock down mail boxes with baseball bats from their cars for sport. Huge stretches of roads have mailboxes broken and torn off. The Sheriff does nothing.

So, we put up a steal mailbox on posts deep set in concrete. We haven't had a problem in 4 months. One guy said he was going to electrify his mailbox.

Country folk are not anymore honest than the rest of humanity. We had a problem with a man's calf getting out and eating our garden. He did nothing about it until on the third incident, we threatened to shoot the calf and charge him with the cost of the lost produce. Then suddenly he fixed his fence.

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Mailbox down for the 4th time in 5 years, this time third year in a row [View all] HereSince1628 Oct 2013 OP

Cut off about ten feet of telephone pole, JoeyT Oct 2013 #1

Yes, or one of those dragon's teeth used as a tank barrier. HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #2

Sounds like they ran over it with their harvest equipment fasttense Oct 2013 #3

Yes, the tracks are obvious...there really are few other vehicles with 3 ft wide tires HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #4

But in the country, the assholes per square mile density is much less then in the city Kaleva Jan 2014 #5

We solved our problem.. haikugal May 2014 #6

Here, as in many places, by law/ordinance the mailbox must be capable of break-away HereSince1628 May 2014 #7

Correct…. haikugal May 2014 #8