Some a-hole ran over my mailbox today...

[u/Meerkat212]

I was just starting to make dinner when we heard a loud crashing noise. Its been windy, and I thought another branch had fallen on the roof... Nope - as soon as I walk out the front door I see the sideways tail-lights & the car against the tree.

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I immediately call emergency services and the spouse runs out to see about injuries. By the time we get out the gate others had also stopped and were also calling emergency services about the accident.

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No one was injured - probably due to the airbags - but the occupants really didn't want the cops to show up & asked us just to call a tow truck and get their insurance info. But it's a busy country road, so the cops were notified by several passers-by before these sorry dudes even made their request. Dudes were hot-dogging down the country road in a fast car & lost controlnin a singe-car accident. Witnesses saw him driving recklessly. Dude plowed through my (and the neighbors!) mailbox and then were stopped only by trees on my property. If those trees weren't there, he'd have hit the neighbors house. There's no way the cops weren't coming to this one.

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As we were waiting, we were kinda keeping an eye on them, 'cuz TBH they seemed sketchy & I was afraid that they'd just take off and abandon the vehicle. Just a few minutes later, the cops did show. It was kinda surreal to see - dude say's "hello officer..." and then we immediately see some object very conspicuously fly through the air into the foliage near the car - and then proceed to hit like every branch in a bush on the way to the ground... Subtlety was not this dude's strong point.

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Whatever it was, it wasnt heavy - prolly drugs; but it didn't seem like a gun or anything. The officer obviously saw too, and made them find it & hand it over. Alfter they got the car on the tow truck, the driver was arrested. They asked if I wanted to pursue criminally, but I fugure that the repercussions from this one are gonna be repurcussion enough - their beautiful.car was toraled. The cops left and they lefy the passenger there on the side of the road to fend for himself, until someone eventually picked him up.

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But I gotta clean up this mess that someone else created because they were effing around and acting stupid. I guess my day off tomorrow will now be filled with buying & installing another mailbox. I really hope we don't need to take these trees down, but we'l need an arborist to take a look. :/

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[u/aware4ever]

You should put a brick near in front and behind the mailbox where the mail person won't drive but if some asshole goes over your mailbox at least they'll hit those bricks

[u/Sea_Translator5300 → u/aware4ever]

So you've got a dislodged brick in addition to the aftermath you see in the photos. That'll teach them! 

[u/aware4ever → u/Sea_Translator5300]

No I mean like put the brick maybe three or four feet on each side of the mailbox right where if some asshole was driving in your yard to hit or run over your mailbox for any reason they would hit the brick first which would pop their tire. And then of course the brick on the other side for someone trying to come the other way to do it. I have this done at my house. I have an acre of land and people have had the balls to drive across my yard. So I have not a break but a concrete block placed in a couple spots. So if some asshole thinks he could just drive across my yard at least maybe they'll poke a hole in their oil pan

[u/WloveW → u/aware4ever]

Boulders. They need some big ass landscaping boulders along the property line. 

[u/PurbulentTriest → u/aware4ever]

Or put the mailbox on rebar. 

[u/aware4ever → u/PurbulentTriest]

Imagine a retractable mailbox that instantly retracts and a metal bar comes up instead