Ok, heres a good one. Up here is small town NH, there was a problem with snow plaws taking out mailboxes. Granted it is a reasonalbe risk to run, with all of the snow that we get, however, when the town will replace 2 mailboxes per residence per season at FMV of $8 per box, and half the town has already used up its allowance in 4 storms, you know there is problem here. Now i personally have a P.O. box, so I dont have to worry about this. But one of my neigbors was having a very difficult time keeping his mailboxes between the snowplows and the local deliquents. So after lossing a few mailboxes, He had welded a nice Mailbox post that let the mailbox hang from a crossmember 6 feet high and stand off from the post a good 2 feet, so that if the plow hit it, it would just knock the mailbox out of the way. He came home to find this very elaborate and well thought out mailbox post mangled up on his front lawn. Since the mailbox has to be 1.5 feet off the road and the post was another 2 feet back, the driver was off by 4 feet, and just by looking up and down the road, you could see the boxes he was aiming for. The town and the driver both denied the fact that he was taking out that many mailboxes and doing it purpose. Well, the driver picked the wrong guy to mess with and he was so warned. It just so happens that my neighbor works for a Local Artesian well-drilling outfit. One day he brought the well-rig home, and two feet off of the road he sunk some 30' x 8" cast iron well casing into the ground, leaving three feet sticking up. To the top of this he made a steel frame and bolted the mail box to the top.
The next storm (Last Sunday night) I heard a MASSIVE crash. I went out to find THE town snowplow on its side in the middle of the road. The wing on the side of the truck was folded nearly in half, the point of the folding being 2 FEET in from the end of the plow, where it impacted the 'mailbox post.' This means that the driver was missing the edge of the road by 4 FEET. When they finally got the truck uprighted, the frame was bent so badly that the big internation dump truck was unable to sit level with all 4 wheels on the ground, in fact, even with the suspension extended, there was still a gap of over 6 inches between the tire and the ground. The cops estimate that the truck was traveling at 35 mph when he hit the post, which is even funnier, beacuse the speed limit on the road is only 25. So on top of the ticket, he has something like 55 counts of destroying mail boxes pending, which of course is a federal offense.
The next storm (Last Sunday night) I heard a MASSIVE crash. I went out to find THE town snowplow on its side in the middle of the road. The wing on the side of the truck was folded nearly in half, the point of the folding being 2 FEET in from the end of the plow, where it impacted the 'mailbox post.' This means that the driver was missing the edge of the road by 4 FEET. When they finally got the truck uprighted, the frame was bent so badly that the big internation dump truck was unable to sit level with all 4 wheels on the ground, in fact, even with the suspension extended, there was still a gap of over 6 inches between the tire and the ground. The cops estimate that the truck was traveling at 35 mph when he hit the post, which is even funnier, beacuse the speed limit on the road is only 25. So on top of the ticket, he has something like 55 counts of destroying mail boxes pending, which of course is a federal offense.
