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Fortress mailboxes
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:04:03 GMT, Ignoramus5275
wrote: I have been reading about fortress mailboxes (a topic raised here). A couple of conclusions: 1. At least in some places, and possibly but not necessarily, near highways, fortress mailboxes may be illegal. Call your building and zoning department to find out. 2. I doubt the morality of installing a fortress mailbox (but I am not certain). Two cases come to mind: - a few years ago, near my old house, a car swerved off a road due to ice and was almost buried in a huge pile of snow in my yard. The teenager in it was very apologetic and I dragged his car out with my pickup. He did not have any ill intention, he was simply an inexperienced driver on an icy road. - Last year, same thing happened in my new house, very near my mailbox. Some bad young driver hit a big pile of snow that I made, stopping inches away from my mailbox. That was during a sunny day with me in my yard. Surely it was not intentional. I would rather have him knock my mailbox down than suffer any meaningful damage. Especially since he was my neighbor. Unless I had a repeating problem with mailbox vandalism, I would definitely not install a fortress mailbox. If I had such a problem, I would keep a wimpy breakable mailbox, but would perhaps make the first 8-12" or so off the ground to be made of something very strong, like a large I beam or some such, to damage the vehicle, but not the occupant. Around that, I would install a fake fortress made of plastic that looks like bricks (sold as room decor at Home Depot), to make the mailbox an unattractive target. 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 Yes, by all means strive for "bad driver friendly". Yet, while declaiming responsibility and morality, you still seek to deceive with a car-gutting lower support and/or fake plastic bricks. There is certainly nothing irresponsible, deceptive or immoral about making a mailbox and post that look strong because they are strong. It is no more a public hazard than a tree. |
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Fortress mailboxes
In article , Don Foreman says...
Yet, while declaiming responsibility and morality, you still seek to deceive with a car-gutting lower support and/or fake plastic bricks. And where did *this* topic pop up from? Somebody's been reading the archived posts, sounds like. Jim -- ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at pkmfgvm4 (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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Fortress mailboxes
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Don Foreman wrote: There is certainly nothing irresponsible, deceptive or immoral about making a mailbox and post that look strong because they are strong. It is no more a public hazard than a tree. Maybe that's the answer; carve your mailbox out of a chunk of 24" dia oak tree, buried many feet. It looks like a tree, acts like a tree. Anyone dumb enough to ram a tree deserves what my daughter got when she totaled my car on a roadside tree. The tree survived. -- Free men own guns, slaves don't www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5357/ |
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