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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 07:07:44 AM
We had another mailbox vandalism last night. Just thought I'd share with you the humorous results of that stupid act, at the blog. You may want to do the same thing. I just love my dear hubby!!! :-)
Mary Beth
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| Heartbroken farmgirl |
Posted - Jul 01 2011 : 7:00:26 PM
Jen, the outhouse story is gross and TOO funny!
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 01 2011 : 05:49:58 AM
I love the mailbox stories! It blows my mind that kids have devised away to have a javelin tournament verses mailboxes. They obviously have WAY too much time on their hands.
Jen- What a tease! I want to hear how great granddad outsmarted them the second time now!!
Alee
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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 11:07:42 PM
Mary Beth, I really hate to cloud your rainbow, but there was a CSI episode where a cement mailbox caused the death of a vandal. Might want to see about watching it to make sure your post receptacle isn't legally a lethal weapon for the terminally stupid. (Although it would be QUITE the Darwin award!)
As to the tipped outhouses, theres a story in my family about my paternal great great grandfather. He was regarded as quite clever in his small Indiana farm town. He had frequent run ins with outsmarting the town hoodlum pranksters. Each year the group of boys was known to tip outhouses on halloween. Well... great great grand dad devised to suspend his outhouse on a cable that night, and when the boys shoved the frame, it SWUNG away and INTO the specially enlarged hole they fell!!
The next year they targeted Great great Granddad specifically, but he managed to outsmart them yet again. But I'll save that story :)
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 10:37:17 AM
Love it, Karen and Kathy!! We rural folk know how to deal with scoundrels!!!
Mary Beth
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The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| nut4fabric |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 07:47:32 AM
My in-laws were having a problem with the mailboxes being knocked down, so my FIL got a railroad tie and sank it 3 feet into the ground anchored with concrete and mounted the mailbox to it a few days later the idiots struck again but this time the mailbox was still standing with a piece to the trucks bumper laying next to it. No further problems.
Kathy |
| craftingram |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 06:43:02 AM
Love your story. It reminds me of several years ago when one of the folks in the tiny community we lived in at the time called the sheriff and told him to check with the hospital for anyone coming in with a broken arm because he found a broken aluminum baseball bat beside his concrete encased mailbox! =)
Karin
Farmgirl #2708
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| mountainmomma |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 06:22:46 AM
We have had trouble with this too. Another problem we have here is the snow plows pushing so much snow that the post for the mailbox finally snaps.
Miriam |
| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Jun 30 2011 : 04:51:51 AM
Jackie, nah...they were probably too drunk to even know where they were!! :-)
Mary Beth
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| BalancingAct |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 10:04:27 PM
I love it! I'm rolling in laughter, feet kicking! Such a great scenario.....written so well! Serves 'em right. I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually stops by to see why that mailbox is still standing. That is, AFTER they recover! 
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| MamaCrunch |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 09:40:42 AM
Hahahaha!! I have tears rolling down my face from laughing so hard!
Farmgirl #2161
Just tryin' to homestead in the middle of a suburban neighborhood!
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 09:21:49 AM
Kristina, here we can even build brick housings for our mailboxes. They are pretty large and would REALLY hurt if hit.
Mary Beth
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 09:15:05 AM
Here it's illegal use concrete for mailboxes like that. My MIL's mailbox was always bashed by vandals. Ours too. We could surround it with a wood box but were not allowed to use concrete.
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| CMac |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 09:13:14 AM
We have problems with this too. Mine was knocked apart 3 times in 6mos so I finally just got a POB. We plan to try again when we get moved back out there. We will probably build one out of stacked stone from the property. If we put it on a deep enough footing and run rebar through it we may be able to keep it standing. I have seen a brick mail box pushed over on one of the side roads. I don't know if it was an accident or intentional. That family never put up another box. So I'm guessing they were having a real problem too.
We used to do some crazy things out of boredom when I was a teen but it never occurred to me that destroying someone else's property would be fun. It seems to be somthing that has happened forever around here. Come to think of it my dad used to tell stories about kids turning over outhouses. Wonder what it was before that?
Connie
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Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| Sheep Mom 2 |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 08:53:20 AM
The "kid" probably hurt himself connecting with the mailbox so came back with payback. Haven't had much trouble with it of late but it seems to come in spurts. I have more trouble with the county graders than the kids anymore. I don't know how the grader guy doesn't see it but he's smashed it three times in a year. I refuse to replace it - just keep beating it back out. The county swears they will replace it but they never do.
Blessings, Sheri
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| embchicken |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 08:38:39 AM
Mary Beth~ That is the best story I have heard all day!
~ Elaine
Farmgirl sister #2822
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 07:38:02 AM
Oh dear, Sheri. They were serious!!! Good grief. You'd think they'd have something better to do with their lives. :-(
Mary Beth
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The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| Sheep Mom 2 |
Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 07:23:40 AM
I love your story Mary Beth. My Dad had built a "roll cage" out of rebar for theirs and they couldn't bash it either. They came back with an explosive and blew up the mail box - there wasn't so much as a quarter size piece of metal left but the roll cage was still intact. I guess they didn't like that they couldn't smash it.
Blessings, Sheri
"Work is Love made visible" -Kahlil Gibran |
