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and I thought about that but the history is as follows….the original mailbox (over 30 years ago) was mounted on a small milk house building well back from the road. Drunks took out the building. We have replaced several over the years and my son just said "fuck it" this last time. They also took out a lamp post along with the mailbox…they didn't bother to take responsibility of course. We live along the road and our house is over 200 years old…both sides of the road are ours and we've had every kind of damage, some of which have ended in death for some drivers. We feel like targets sometimes …. nothing against drivers but they often drive too fast in general and too fast for conditions . We're on a curve. We have a lot of large trees now. I will not be removing my trees…I will, however, begin to ask for a speed reduction along with a noise ordinance because we have a new neighbor who likes to shoot canon and put off what sound like bombs which send my horse into a panic.
We also have a large Blue Heron nesting colony so I'll contact the State and follow through with getting some extra protection for them that may help with this horrid neighbor and his idiotic antics. I don't know them at all…they just bought the ground and built about a year ago and it's been pretty bad. I find myself wondering what's going on in their heads.
Good luck with your mailbox and I hope your latest effort works for you.
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The purpose isn't to 'hurt' anyone. The only way to have them take responsibility is for them to not be able to drive away…that's how we caught the ones that demolished the milk house…they were lucky and in the spin their car went into they hit it with the trunk of the car not the front. They tried to drive off but the car was too damaged…
I've lived here a long time and have a lot of stories about what goes on here with cars going sideways, spinning around, driving off the road etc. These are local residents who know there is a curve here and it was constructed in the 60's in such a way that it banks improperly. There have been terrible, deadly accidents on our property and our neighbors property. My husband was going to work one morning and noticed a car sitting on the fence on part of our ground and stopped to get the license plate number. While he was walking around the vehicle he found the body of a young mother. Who knows when she crashed and if she could have been helped if someone had heard it. Just an example.
As our area is developed we have a lot more traffic which now includes semi's and they need to lower the speed limit through here because some people have become so entitled to the road that they can't be bothered slowing down for me when I cross the road to the barn. I'm not getting any faster but they sure are.
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