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As Forged in Fire Doug Markita sayes ,It will sting !

560Dennis

560Dennis

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Now for the sting test ! We have arranged a mailbox with concrete , Remember test is not what your bat does to your bat ,but what the mailbox does to
your dumbo
 
i agree with the concept but as a guy with some lawyers in the family all i see is a major lawsuit when hit by a car or truck and it comes through the windshield, we have had our share of issues but making one untouchable and setting on an immoveable post is to risky for me.
 
If that is a working mail box most likely the post office won't put mail into it as its not regulation. I would also think it falls in the same category as the uninvited guy falling through your front step because its rotted, getting hurt and suing you because you didn't maintain your property. Maybe where you live is different.
 
I'd like to put a heavy duty box on a break away post. Maybe a post mounted on a piece of old coil spring. Wouldn't that solve the problem without being a public hazard? I don't want to hurt some kid but it really stinks when your box gets wiped out and you don't have much time to fix it before next delivery.
 
560Dennis. When I was a kid in Lake Charles La, there was one summer that a load of older teenagers would go around a hit trash cans (metal back then) that was full of trash the night before trash pickup. A mess for the recipient. Had a old man had a fire plug on his neutral ground. Had two cans. One full and one empty. Cut a hole in the empty one and slipped it over the fire plug. Just so happens the hoodlums picked his house thinking theyd make a real good mess. Of course they sheared the fire plug and did a mess to the auto. Long story short the but the old man was brought up on all sorts of charges. Wingnut
 
SC DOT requires that a mailbox must be one approved by Post Office with a break away post such as wood in case a car hits it.
I don't want to be sued by some idiot hitting my mailbox made of brick or heavy steel.
 
I've heard a farmer getting tired of having his mailbox knocked over in the fall by wide headers. He poured a concrete post. the next time he had a ding in his mailbox it had green paint so he went to the deere dealer and found who hit his mailbox. Not me either way.
 
There was a guy here in Geauga that built a large stone tower of some sort for his mailbox. The county made him tear it down. He was POed that he couldn't build what he thought was a monument to himself.
 
If someone is injured, good luck convincing a judge or jury that that was not specifically intended to injure or maim a person. Hopefully your insurance company will be able to settle out of court without any criminal charges being filed.
 
Back in the 80's, I did that too! a regular size box inside a 'commercial' size box. concrete poured in the space. Post Office told me to remove the inner door. They didnt like two doors. otherwise it worked. also stopped the bats & bottles !! however I was too nervous to leave it up more then a few weeks. BIG liability !
 
I have heard of people making swing away posts with a return spring that would allow the mailbox to slowly return to position.
 
You see those type of mailboxes along large highways in Minnesota. Snow plows need to wing out snow banks to make room for the next snow storm and to reduce snow drifts on the roadway. Large snow plows can hit mail boxes at plowing speed without damage to either one. The next day the mailman can pull up close to the mailboxes and not have to fight any snow banks.
 


I have long thought that a good defense would be a heavy steel hoop up and over the mailbox with some rubber belting glued onto it. I think that the bat should bounce back pretty good. Maybe even good enough to damage the car.
 
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