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This is the curve in front of our house - if you go straight instead of turning you end up in my yard. In the 16 years we've lived here, 23 times someone has missed the curve to some degree. One guy managed this feat 3 times, but to be fair he got further thru the curve each time before hitting my fence. No deaths since I've lived there but two close calls. There was one death a few years before we moved in, one of the folks who live down the dirt road you can see on the right their son was drunk, had been depressed, and got up enough speed that when he hit the trees the front end of his car broke up and a headlight ended up about 50 feet beyond the fence line...



Behind that road sign you can see are some pretty big oaks with not a lot of space between. One person (dunno who, we were out of town and came back to a trashed fence and marks all over the yard from a tow truck) managed to fit his Nissan Altima between the trees. Took off both side mirrors and some side trim though... a few inches either direction he would've hit a tree.

Issue is this road is a "off the main way" between two small towns, one of which has a bar and the other one doesn't. So all the folks in small town #2 drive to #1, drink, then head home... taking the back way of course to avoid the law... unfortunately for them when they hit my fence I have a habit of greeting them wearing boxers or maybe shorts, carrying a phone while calling 911 and carrying a flashlight and whatever spoon happened to be handiest as I'm headed out the front door. Why the gun? That guy that hit my fence 3 times, first time he got quite belligerent and threatened to kick my ass if I called 911.

There have also been several close calls which resulted in my mail box being taken out, a short decorative wall on either side of the driveway entrance, etc.
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