tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post869289360237902463..comments2023-09-11T23:57:00.520-05:00Comments on Velvet Sacks: Baseball Bats Don't Vandalize; Knuckleheads Do!Linda@VShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04499621332375290781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post-81125876498476502312014-06-09T13:21:09.181-05:002014-06-09T13:21:09.181-05:00Mailbox bashing must be the rural substitute for g...Mailbox bashing must be the rural substitute for graffiti tagging. Maybe our southern boys just aren't all that artistic.Linda@VShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04499621332375290781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post-54855288915448862832014-06-07T22:56:10.581-05:002014-06-07T22:56:10.581-05:00Both my mother and brother-in-law, who live about ...Both my mother and brother-in-law, who live about 30 minutes from you have the brick variety. My BIL put his up after some person lost control of their car making a turn, knocked down their mailbox and the next door neighbor's before crossing the street and driving into a house. That concrete and brick box has been taken out twice in the 35 years since. When Mom moved there in the early 90s, she put up a brick one as well. It's been taken out twice... two years ago, it got knocked over in one piece! And the perp left the bumper and many engine parts on the lawn... we're not even sure how they got home! <br /><br />One neighbor of Mom's, sick of kids "landscaping" her property (and people missing the stop sign in front of house, installed 4" x 4" x 4 foot steel poles all along her flower beds... CreekHiker / HollysFollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987597104795294851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post-5242281951903584932014-06-07T15:18:26.037-05:002014-06-07T15:18:26.037-05:00I've thought about what it would be like to be...I've thought about what it would be like to be on the holding end of the bat that whacks the head of the kid whose hands hold the bat that whacks the mailbox. I suppose that kind of thinking doesn't have anything to do with physics, does it?Linda@VShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04499621332375290781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post-35543336715115883732014-06-06T22:34:16.215-05:002014-06-06T22:34:16.215-05:00I've got one like your sister; I think our sub...I've got one like your sister; I think our subdivision requires it. That's a little sad. I've often wondered what is like to be on the holding end of that bat that whacks the mailboxes. It has to be prettying jarring. I may have decided to forget math, but I remember physics.Annette Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15367278617237356980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post-68781040087624256272014-06-06T15:14:35.035-05:002014-06-06T15:14:35.035-05:00Well, Joy, as the kids say, "Oh! Em! GEE!&quo...Well, Joy, as the kids say, "Oh! Em! GEE!" I'm shocked! Thank you for telling me this and putting my complaint in perspective. I will no longer whine about damage to my rinky-dink mailbox when people are having to attempt brick-and-mortar work to repair damage done by kids who get their kicks this way. <br /><br />You're right: they must consider it great fun. That same young-male mindset also explains how mature men who run governments are able to convince young men to go fight and die in foreign wars. Sounds adventurous? Sounds like fun? "Hell, yeah, sign me up!"Linda@VShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04499621332375290781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612081.post-52801848360691168182014-06-06T14:03:20.816-05:002014-06-06T14:03:20.816-05:00I'm sorry to say even mailboxes like your sist...I'm sorry to say even mailboxes like your sister's aren't knucklehead proof. The mailboxes in my neighborhood are built like your sister's and it is not uncommon to find 3 or 4 of them knocked to the ground after a night of wild, crazy, fun by some neighborhood kids. Some of the mailboxes are replaced with the kind on metal posts while some mailbox owners have tried to repair the brick and mortar themselves with often comical results. What I never could understand was how in the world the vandals could knock one of those things over without destroying their vehicles. I found my answer while out for an early morning walk: a toppled mailbox that still had a rope tied around it. Apparently, the mischief makers lasso the mailbox and use their vehicle to pull it over! Maybe it is just a Texas thing and from the number of mailboxes destroyed around here, it must be great fun! Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00961725735902335334noreply@blogger.com