Thursday, September 10, 2020

Kid Keeps Vandalizing Mailbox, Dad Builds Indestructible Mailbox


We don't know what it is about troublemakers and mailboxes. Apparently, people that enjoy breaking the rules, especially enjoy messing with people's mailboxes. This particular pro revenge story involves a kid repeatedly vandalizing a family's mailbox, but we've seen this tale before with different characters. Yes, we're talking about the time that an evil snowplow met its match in the form of a steel enforced mailbox.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/burner_john_doe • ly 30 yrs later and they are still standing TL:DR At the end I grew up on a country road with 4 houses. Our mailboxes were on the main road. Someone kept vandalizing the four mailboxes by driving through them breaking the posts. I recall replacing the mailboxes a few times on weekends. After 4-5 times, my dad and the neighbors hatched a plan. My dad told me to go to bed early we have a lot of work to do in the morning. After breakfast we go to the m

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Text - We proceed to dig two very deep holes. Digging holes is very back breaking were I lived, as the land was very rocky region. You only dig about 6 inches before we had to dig out a bunch of rocks in the hole. We took turns digging out the rocks over the entire morning. There was a lot of motivation as this was the last time we were going to fix the mailboxes. We dig two holes 6 feet deep and hoist two uncut 12 foot railroad ties in each hole. We then proceed to fill to the top of each hole

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Text - A month goes by, and the kids and I walk to the mailbox to meet the bus. We discover what happens when a moving car meets an unmovable object. There is an old blue Buick Century with smashed up grill and bent wheel, and nobody in the car. This was well before cellphones so we run to the closest house and tell the mom what we saw. We go back to main road and get on the bus with the car still there. We find out later the highway ticketed the driver, 14 yr old kid, and towed the vehicle. Now

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Text - The kids dad tried to fight it by saying the mailboxes were not legally built. Turns out mailbox construction is set by the state and county and our state/county did not have any regulations on county mailboxes. I smile every time I go home, after 30 years, the indestructible mailboxes are still standing. TLDR: Kid kept vandalizing our mailbox by running them over, built indestructible mailbox, crashed his car, lost license for 18 months. I smile every time I go home, as 30 years later th

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