Guy Gets His Mailbox Ruined By A Snow Plow Every Snowfall, Gets Perfect Revenge
Few would argue the statement that humans are a creative species in general. Surprisingly though, this creativity sometimes shines in the most unexpected ways. One of those unexpected occasions for creativity is actually… when someone is up for revenge. That’s exactly the case in this story we’re featuring as well. Some guy got so frustrated about getting his mailbox turned down every snowfall, he came up with a brilliant yet despicable solution. Scroll down to find out more!
Someone posted a picture of their destructible mailbox
And this person got reminded of yet another good-old mailbox upgrading story
Here’s what people got to say about it
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living in snowplow country, I have two points. My Grandfather ,who passed away last year, had made his from heavy duty tow chain where the links were welded together. never seen anyone hit it, people around here had enough common sense, I guess. I see a LOT of the swing away types, where the post is far from the road, and the box can be knocked out of the way, only to swing back.
My parent's mailbox is mounted on an L shaped piece of 3 inch rebar that is secured into the ground by concrete. It was like that when they bought the house and always wondered why the mailbox overkill.... See, they live at the junction of a T intersection and one night, a drunk driver failed to turn left or right when he came to the end of the street. 3 inch rebar doesn't bend, so when he hit it, the concrete that the rebar was mounted in uprooted from underground and this guys car was stuck on top of it. It was a little front wheel drive car so when he tried to get unstuck, the front tires (which were no longer in contact with the surface of the earth, but suspended in midair) simply spun ineffectively while the engine revved away. The crash and the whining engine woke us up, along with several of the neighbors and somebody called the cops. My mom felt bad for the guy (because she's too nice for her own good) so she was serving him coffee and donuts when the cops arrested him.
When it's painfully obvious a snow plow driver is intentionally hitting ANYTHING they should lose their job. Snow plows are huge dangerous vehicles and people with anger management issues should not be allowed to drive them. So sayeth someone with anger management issues!
"Our driver went out of his way to plow your mailbox ON YOUR LAND, ended up busting our plow instead, so we'll sue you." Flawless logic...
Our mailbox is attached to our house. Mailman walks up onto our door, puts in the mail. Works great.
We have lost a few mail boxes over the years, but the most popular thing is kids grabbing our rolling trashcan off the side of the road and dragging it down the street dumping trash all over the place. One time I had finally had enough of it and attached a 1/4" aircraft cable to a steel plate in the bottom of the can and 60lbs of cement, and connected the other end to a mobile home anchor in the ground near the fence. Then we laid out the 500ft of cable down the fence line. We estimate the kids go to around 40mph when the cable ran out and jerked the kid clean out of the car window. Nobody on our entire street ever had their trash can dragged down the road again.
Just FYI, in many places in the US, it is illegal to put up an indestructible mailbox like this. You can actually get mailboxes that will collapse when hit and pop back up (not the post, just the box). In the neighborhood where I live now, you can have a box at the road or a letterbox at your door. To avoid replacing mailboxes, we chose the letterbox at the door. Check with your local postal regs and see if you can put a letterbox at your door instead of a mailbox at the road.
In Wisconsin people who have this problem have swinging mailboxes. The post is 10' back from the box, set into the ground at an angle pointing toward the road. A sleeve slides over the post with the arm that holds the mailbox. A slot cut into the sleeve holds a bolt which keeps the sleeve from being pulled off and acts as a detent to keep the box from swinging in the wind.
I recall reading the story of the dude who built his snowman around a tree trunk. Was a while ago, good stuff
Had the same problem, but with teenagers who thought it was cool to spin out on the curve before my mailbox that resulted in the obliteration of my mailbox! Talked to teenagers, their parents, and law enforcement to no avail. One spring break I attached an auger to my tractor and removed my mailbox and replaced it with a new one mounted on a 4 x 4 center cut 8' cypress post. The rest is history! No one was hurt, but engine repairs were costly.
ouch! better see how much u gotta pay. and i can assure u, it must cost more than buying a mailbox.
First off I can guarantee that it didn't tear the plow in two. I worked for the state plowing roads and a plows are made to break away in case of an impact. I would agree that if the driver is intentionally breaking it something should be done but inflicting damage to a state owned vehicle is stupid on your part. I never broke them on purpose but it sometimes happens. I don't know how your state works but in the state but the state I live in it is against the law to make mail boxes where they won't break away. That's a safety issue for in any vehicle hits it no injury or death be caused by it.
There are a certain type of snow plow driver that just enjoys damage. I was run off the road by one of these... it took me quite a while to dig myself off the median and back onto the road.
USPS really dislikes mailboxes mounted on houses. Next least favorite - mailboxes in front of house. Most desirable - group mailboxes with one per street. We've had all three. The houses built in the 1960's had mailboxes on the houses next to the front door. The early 2000's house had a mailbox at the end of the driveway. The 2018 house shares a group mailbox for our entire block. Cheaper to deliver mail that way.
I think i remember something similiar to this story, i don't know whether it's from movie or true story, but it's about some kids driving around and hit mailboxes with basebal bat, and one day he hit the concrete mailbox, and broke his hands, and sue the owner of the house, and i think he won, unlike this story
So, what happened to the mailbox? Did the snowplow lose as in the second story? This was anticlimactic! We need a conclusion! LOL
Wherever I lived our mailboxes were mounted right on the house. No bats, no plows ever hit them.
Our mailbox is stuck on some kind of metal pole, and before we moved in somebody crashed into it. Now it's bent over, just so all the mail falls out (we have the weird ones without an opening.) Really annoying nowadays, all mail falls out into the mud (yes, we also have a ditch in front of it.)
First of all, if true, I'd like to think there was something else than malice at play. Maybe a tough corner or something else for the plow to do its work. But. Having said that. F them, get better at your job in stead of inconveniencing people at such a rate. I mean, setting up a mailbox is still a lot of work. It's done to help out the mail company, not because it's helpful to yourself. Pff, I hope the end of snail mail is near ;).
Ugh. This is not funny like at all... The snow plow was on the road for a reason and now it could not finish the job...so some people propably were be stuck with snow for some while. Those things are also heck expensive.
Actually living in a country with snow and to make my point: hopefully there were no people who could not get to work or children who could not go to school because of this guy. No ambulance that could not reach a person with a life threatening condition. No accidents on road that could have been prevented if the plow was not intentionally sabotaged. Oh man, this post reaaaally triggered me 😂
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Im just wondering why theres still a need for mail boxes? They dont exist where i live because everything is electronic
living in snowplow country, I have two points. My Grandfather ,who passed away last year, had made his from heavy duty tow chain where the links were welded together. never seen anyone hit it, people around here had enough common sense, I guess. I see a LOT of the swing away types, where the post is far from the road, and the box can be knocked out of the way, only to swing back.
My parent's mailbox is mounted on an L shaped piece of 3 inch rebar that is secured into the ground by concrete. It was like that when they bought the house and always wondered why the mailbox overkill.... See, they live at the junction of a T intersection and one night, a drunk driver failed to turn left or right when he came to the end of the street. 3 inch rebar doesn't bend, so when he hit it, the concrete that the rebar was mounted in uprooted from underground and this guys car was stuck on top of it. It was a little front wheel drive car so when he tried to get unstuck, the front tires (which were no longer in contact with the surface of the earth, but suspended in midair) simply spun ineffectively while the engine revved away. The crash and the whining engine woke us up, along with several of the neighbors and somebody called the cops. My mom felt bad for the guy (because she's too nice for her own good) so she was serving him coffee and donuts when the cops arrested him.
When it's painfully obvious a snow plow driver is intentionally hitting ANYTHING they should lose their job. Snow plows are huge dangerous vehicles and people with anger management issues should not be allowed to drive them. So sayeth someone with anger management issues!
"Our driver went out of his way to plow your mailbox ON YOUR LAND, ended up busting our plow instead, so we'll sue you." Flawless logic...
Our mailbox is attached to our house. Mailman walks up onto our door, puts in the mail. Works great.
We have lost a few mail boxes over the years, but the most popular thing is kids grabbing our rolling trashcan off the side of the road and dragging it down the street dumping trash all over the place. One time I had finally had enough of it and attached a 1/4" aircraft cable to a steel plate in the bottom of the can and 60lbs of cement, and connected the other end to a mobile home anchor in the ground near the fence. Then we laid out the 500ft of cable down the fence line. We estimate the kids go to around 40mph when the cable ran out and jerked the kid clean out of the car window. Nobody on our entire street ever had their trash can dragged down the road again.
Just FYI, in many places in the US, it is illegal to put up an indestructible mailbox like this. You can actually get mailboxes that will collapse when hit and pop back up (not the post, just the box). In the neighborhood where I live now, you can have a box at the road or a letterbox at your door. To avoid replacing mailboxes, we chose the letterbox at the door. Check with your local postal regs and see if you can put a letterbox at your door instead of a mailbox at the road.
In Wisconsin people who have this problem have swinging mailboxes. The post is 10' back from the box, set into the ground at an angle pointing toward the road. A sleeve slides over the post with the arm that holds the mailbox. A slot cut into the sleeve holds a bolt which keeps the sleeve from being pulled off and acts as a detent to keep the box from swinging in the wind.
I recall reading the story of the dude who built his snowman around a tree trunk. Was a while ago, good stuff
Had the same problem, but with teenagers who thought it was cool to spin out on the curve before my mailbox that resulted in the obliteration of my mailbox! Talked to teenagers, their parents, and law enforcement to no avail. One spring break I attached an auger to my tractor and removed my mailbox and replaced it with a new one mounted on a 4 x 4 center cut 8' cypress post. The rest is history! No one was hurt, but engine repairs were costly.
ouch! better see how much u gotta pay. and i can assure u, it must cost more than buying a mailbox.
First off I can guarantee that it didn't tear the plow in two. I worked for the state plowing roads and a plows are made to break away in case of an impact. I would agree that if the driver is intentionally breaking it something should be done but inflicting damage to a state owned vehicle is stupid on your part. I never broke them on purpose but it sometimes happens. I don't know how your state works but in the state but the state I live in it is against the law to make mail boxes where they won't break away. That's a safety issue for in any vehicle hits it no injury or death be caused by it.
There are a certain type of snow plow driver that just enjoys damage. I was run off the road by one of these... it took me quite a while to dig myself off the median and back onto the road.
USPS really dislikes mailboxes mounted on houses. Next least favorite - mailboxes in front of house. Most desirable - group mailboxes with one per street. We've had all three. The houses built in the 1960's had mailboxes on the houses next to the front door. The early 2000's house had a mailbox at the end of the driveway. The 2018 house shares a group mailbox for our entire block. Cheaper to deliver mail that way.
I think i remember something similiar to this story, i don't know whether it's from movie or true story, but it's about some kids driving around and hit mailboxes with basebal bat, and one day he hit the concrete mailbox, and broke his hands, and sue the owner of the house, and i think he won, unlike this story
So, what happened to the mailbox? Did the snowplow lose as in the second story? This was anticlimactic! We need a conclusion! LOL
Wherever I lived our mailboxes were mounted right on the house. No bats, no plows ever hit them.
Our mailbox is stuck on some kind of metal pole, and before we moved in somebody crashed into it. Now it's bent over, just so all the mail falls out (we have the weird ones without an opening.) Really annoying nowadays, all mail falls out into the mud (yes, we also have a ditch in front of it.)
First of all, if true, I'd like to think there was something else than malice at play. Maybe a tough corner or something else for the plow to do its work. But. Having said that. F them, get better at your job in stead of inconveniencing people at such a rate. I mean, setting up a mailbox is still a lot of work. It's done to help out the mail company, not because it's helpful to yourself. Pff, I hope the end of snail mail is near ;).
Ugh. This is not funny like at all... The snow plow was on the road for a reason and now it could not finish the job...so some people propably were be stuck with snow for some while. Those things are also heck expensive.
Actually living in a country with snow and to make my point: hopefully there were no people who could not get to work or children who could not go to school because of this guy. No ambulance that could not reach a person with a life threatening condition. No accidents on road that could have been prevented if the plow was not intentionally sabotaged. Oh man, this post reaaaally triggered me 😂
Load More Replies... Im just wondering why theres still a need for mail boxes? They dont exist where i live because everything is electronic
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