WTF!!! Someone just drove right over our mailbox!!!

[pyonir]

Ceci.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I just hope our mailbox at least dented their car. From the outside it looks like a regular plastic mailbox, but it's a piece of plastic overtop of a 4" thick concrete pole that goes about 3 feet into the ground. I guess that would explain the big clunk.

I ran over a mailbox with my first car (a toyota tercel, which is all plastic) when I blew a tire going way to fast in a residential neighberhood. Didn't do anything besides put 2 small white paint lines about 3.5 inches apart on my bumper (mailbox post was white) I sheared the post off right at the ground when I went back about a week later to look at it.

Originally posted by: Crescent13
Whatever hit the mailbox, had a wheelbase of about 2 feet, and only had two wheels. the whole way through there is only 2 tracks of excactly the same size. even in the turns. freaky.

Motorcycle doing a powerslide?

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I just hope our mailbox at least dented their car. From the outside it looks like a regular plastic mailbox, but it's a piece of plastic overtop of a 4" thick concrete pole that goes about 3 feet into the ground. I guess that would explain the big clunk.

I ran over a mailbox with my first car (a toyota tercel, which is all plastic) when I blew a tire going way to fast in a residential neighberhood. Didn't do anything besides put 2 small white paint lines about 3.5 inches apart on my bumper (mailbox post was white) I sheared the post off right at the ground when I went back about a week later to look at it.

they didn't shear it off they actually pulled the pole right out of the ground.

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I just hope our mailbox at least dented their car. From the outside it looks like a regular plastic mailbox, but it's a piece of plastic overtop of a 4" thick concrete pole that goes about 3 feet into the ground. I guess that would explain the big clunk.

I ran over a mailbox with my first car (a toyota tercel, which is all plastic) when I blew a tire going way to fast in a residential neighberhood. Didn't do anything besides put 2 small white paint lines about 3.5 inches apart on my bumper (mailbox post was white) I sheared the post off right at the ground when I went back about a week later to look at it.

Originally posted by: Crescent13
Whatever hit the mailbox, had a wheelbase of about 2 feet, and only had two wheels. the whole way through there is only 2 tracks of excactly the same size. even in the turns. freaky.

Motorcycle doing a powerslide?

I took a closer look with the handy zoom feature on the digital camera, it actually is four wheels. Just didn't see it at first. but it does have a wheelbase of about 2 feet.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: pyonir
Ceci.

Yes.

Did you just take another guess or did you go searching through old PM's/posts?

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir
Ceci.

Yes.

Did you just take another guess or did you go searching through old PM's/posts?

I still had one of the pictures. LMFAO!

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir
Ceci.

Yes.

Did you just take another guess or did you go searching through old PM's/posts?

I still had one of the pictures. LMFAO!

:laugh:

Again...I'm not surprised

 

[So]

Funny story about people smashing mailboxes -- this story is set about thirty-five years ago, before I was born...

My mother's boss had this same problem, only worse. She lived on a sharp corner and there were a buch of kids who thought it was hilarious to run down her mailbox...every time she'd replace it, a few weeks later, it'd get run down with a car again and demolished. Well, her friendship with my mom brought my grandfather into the picture. He was a metalworker who fabricated aircraft prototypes, and He decided to solve the problem *permanently*. You can probably see where this is going.

He got a Large guage steel pipe, welded a door on the front and sealed the back, then he welded the 'box' to a steel pipe acting as a pole. The 'pole' had been sunk ~6ft into the ground with a large concrete base, and filled with concrete itslef.

Approxximately a week later, this woman heard a resounding *CRASH* as a car wrapped itself around the mailbox, pretty much destroying the front end. She went out to check the damage the next morining, the car had been pulled away by one of their friends and to this day, that mailbox stands there, having been bent a whopping 20 degrees. Nobody ever tried to run that thing down again.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir
Ceci.

Yes.

Did you just take another guess or did you go searching through old PM's/posts?

I still had one of the pictures. LMFAO!

:laugh:

Again...I'm not surprised

hahaha...i know it. What can i say? I'm a lonely SOB.

 

[Crescent13]

WOOHOO got some pics. Just had to turn off the flash. I'll upload at least one for you guys to look at.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I took a closer look with the handy zoom feature on the digital camera, it actually is four wheels. Just didn't see it at first. but it does have a wheelbase of about 2 feet.

A go cart has a wheelbase of > 3 feet. Nothing that is road legal has a wheelbase of 24 inches. May I suggest a handy dandy tape measure when it gets light out

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir
Ceci.

Yes.

Did you just take another guess or did you go searching through old PM's/posts?

I still had one of the pictures. LMFAO!

:laugh:

Again...I'm not surprised

hahaha...i know it. What can i say? I'm a lonely SOB.

ahahahahahahaha

Oh wait...so am I

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: pyonir
Ceci.

Yes.

Did you just take another guess or did you go searching through old PM's/posts?

I still had one of the pictures. LMFAO!

:laugh:

Again...I'm not surprised

hahaha...i know it. What can i say? I'm a lonely SOB.

ahahahahahahaha

Oh wait...so am I

LMAO

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: pyonir
hahaha...i know it. What can i say? I'm a lonely SOB.

What am I to you? a haven in rough seas? Now look at what you did, you made me cry. :brokenheart:

 

[So]

Hey! I went to a LOT of effort to write that last post! Nobody even read it. :|

 

[Crescent13]

I Have a pic!!

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: pyonir
hahaha...i know it. What can i say? I'm a lonely SOB.

What am I to you? a haven in rough seas? Now look at what you did, you made me cry. :brokenheart:

Hey man....you moved! You MOVED! :brokenheart:

Bastard. YOU left ME!

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: So
Funny story about people smashing mailboxes -- this story is set about thirty-five years ago, before I was born...

My mother's boss had this same problem, only worse. She lived on a sharp corner and there were a buch of kids who thought it was hilarious to run down her mailbox...every time she'd replace it, a few weeks later, it'd get run down with a car again and demolished. Well, her friendship with my mom brought my grandfather into the picture. He was a metalworker who fabricated aircraft prototypes, and He decided to solve the problem *permanently*. You can probably see where this is going.

He got a Large guage steel pipe, welded a door on the front and sealed the back, then he welded the 'box' to a steel pipe acting as a pole. The 'pole' had been sunk ~6ft into the ground with a large concrete base, and filled with concrete itslef.

Approxximately a week later, this woman heard a resounding *CRASH* as a car wrapped itself around the mailbox, pretty much destroying the front end. She went out to check the damage the next morining, the car had been pulled away by one of their friends and to this day, that mailbox stands there, having been bent a whopping 20 degrees. Nobody ever tried to run that thing down again.

ROFL!!!

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: So
Hey! I went to a LOT of effort to write that last post! Nobody even read it. :|

That's what you get for not including pics.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I just hope our mailbox at least dented their car. From the outside it looks like a regular plastic mailbox, but it's a piece of plastic overtop of a 4" thick concrete pole that goes about 3 feet into the ground. I guess that would explain the big clunk.

The only thing that would tkae that down would be a fricken pick-up truck!!!! You think a Civic is gonna hit it and survive? The driver wouldve been asking you"Can I use your fone>????" Now hurry up with pics!!@#!!

 

[EatSpam]

They probably ran off the road in the storm. That or they were drunk. Probably both.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: So
Hey! I went to a LOT of effort to write that last post! Nobody even read it. :|

LOL, i read it. I just didn't think it was worth commenting on.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
PIC

LMFAO! Um. Nice pic.

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: Crescent13
I just hope our mailbox at least dented their car. From the outside it looks like a regular plastic mailbox, but it's a piece of plastic overtop of a 4" thick concrete pole that goes about 3 feet into the ground. I guess that would explain the big clunk.

The only thing that would tkae that down would be a fricken pick-up truck!!!! You think a Civic is gonna hit it and survive? The driver wouldve been asking you"Can I use your fone>????" Now hurry up with pics!!@#!!

Look at the first post. Pic is uploaded.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: So
Hey! I went to a LOT of effort to write that last post! Nobody even read it. :|

That's what you get for not including pics.

It's on the other side of the country, in a place that I haven't been for at least 8 years...I'd need a pretty sweet lens...

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: So
Hey! I went to a LOT of effort to write that last post! Nobody even read it. :|

LOL, i read it. I just didn't think it was worth commenting on.