[GH85Carrera]

Right before I married my now wife the mailbox at her house was mowed down by some neighborhood kids with their jacked up pickup. They hit all the mailboxes on that street. The house was in the middle of a typical surban neighborhood and just two houses away from a 4 way stop sign. 25 MPH speed limit and a stop sign coming up, it was not an accident.

My FIL was much like myself and when he rebuilt things he over engineered and overbuilt to make a fix that will not need to fixed ever again. He went to a local oilfield supply shop he knew. They cut him a piece of 8 inch heavy wall drilling pipe to be 8 feet long. He brought down his post hole drill and dug a 4 foot hole and set in in concrete. Lets just say the mailbox was on a sturdy and secure pole. I was always hoping the same morons would deliberately try to run it over. We sold the house before that ever happened but the guy across the street was a friend.

He called me to say in the middle of the night there was a lot of racket and some local punks figured mowing down mail boxes was fun. They mowed down several of the neighbors mail boxes. Then there was a very loud ker-wang! The jacked up Jeep was stopped dead in its tracks and wrapped around the mail box. EVERYONE except the kid and his parents thought it was funny. The police of course received a stolen vehicle report so they did not write any tickets. It was just a coincidence that the kid that drove the Jeep had a broken nose and busted lip.