Date:         Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:06:07 -0800
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: NVC Moose vs Mailbox
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RE: Moose and mailbox and iron pipe and mailbox

 The welders solution reminds of an incident back in the late '70s when I
was living on Vahon Island, in Puget Sound, just off Seattle.  Virtually all
rural living, mailboxes on posts on the side of the road, some single, some
in clusters.  And a favorite Friday night pastime of some of the high school
boys was to drive down the road in a pickup, a couple of guys in the back
with baseball bats, and bash mail boxes.  One resident acquired a mailbox
made of concrete, mounted it on a concrete post.  It looked just like a
ordinary metal mail box.  And on a weekend night a truck was heard on the
road, clangs of bat on metal boxes coming down the road.  And then a
resounding 'whack' and a scream of pain as the kid wielding the baseball bat
found out what happens when the irresistible force meets the immovable
object::  An indescribable mess!
The final chapter was written in two steps.  First, the next weekend the
sheriff's deputy (the only one on the island) pulled over a pickup with
several teenage boys because they were driving up Cemetery Road with a
concrete mail box and pillar dragging behind from a chain.  Step two was
full restitution to about a dozen mail box owners and IIRC some hours of
community service for several young men when Justice of The Peace The
Honorable Judge Schwartz got through with them.