Ignoramus5275 wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:04:17 GMT, Anthony wrote:

Ignoramus5275 wrote in
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If some vandal hits your mailbox, dies, and you lose thousands in
court, you are not a winner in the situation. If an unfortunate driver
dies, there would be a moral guilt element in addition to the court
judgment.


I've deleted the original post now, but in reply...
Last I knew, willful destruction of a mailbox was still a FELONY.


yep


If it is a recurring problem, a video camera or web cam set up to
snap a picture every few seconds aimed to maybe get a plate number
would be a good way to go. You've lost another mailbox, but at
least the people who did it can be procecuted.


A fun Rec.Crafts.Metalworking project would be a camera actuated by an
event of a mailbox being destroyed. Should not be very difficult, to
use a relay that closes when signal current is interrupted.

X10 proximity detector connected to a webcam should be pretty cheap.
You'd have daily pics of the postman and your wife.
Hopefully not together

And sure as you went to this trouble, your new mailbox would remain
untouched for many years.