I've been sitting here for the last couple of hours reading the various threads, trying to take my mind off the fact that my wife's car was damaged and someone stole my mailbox. In the process of ripping the relatively inexpensive mailbox from the post, the vandal also splintered a post that I had spent no small amount of time crafting--even carved the house's numbers on it. The box can be replaced; the rearview mirror reattached, but the work on the post is gone.
So, while it is a small thing in the grand scheme of the world, I just can't stop wondering why. And I can't stop the anger from rising in my throat like bile.
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I've been sitting here for the last couple of hours reading the various threads, trying to take my mind off the fact that my wife's car was damaged and someone stole my mailbox. In the process of ripping the relatively inexpensive mailbox from the post, the vandal also splintered a post that I had spent no small amount of time crafting--even carved the house's numbers on it. The box can be replaced; the rearview mirror reattached, but the work on the post is gone.
So, while it is a small thing in the grand scheme of the world, I just can't stop wondering why. And I can't stop the anger from rising in my throat like bile.
Sometimes, people are just a~+&~&$s. They do what they want and never even think about the people they upset. Or they do think about them and it makes it even funnier to them.
I'm sorry to hear about your mailbox. Has any mail been stolen?
I've been sitting here for the last couple of hours reading the various threads, trying to take my mind off the fact that my wife's car was damaged and someone stole my mailbox. In the process of ripping the relatively inexpensive mailbox from the post, the vandal also splintered a post that I had spent no small amount of time crafting--even carved the house's numbers on it. The box can be replaced; the rearview mirror reattached, but the work on the post is gone.
So, while it is a small thing in the grand scheme of the world, I just can't stop wondering why. And I can't stop the anger from rising in my throat like bile.
I hear ya there,I would kick the hell out of myself nowdays
Sometimes, people are just a&&@@~#s. They do what they want and never even think about the people they upset. Or they do think about them and it makes it even funnier to them.
I'm sorry to hear about your mailbox. Has any mail been stolen?
No mail was taken. I was outside on Saturday when the mail carrier arrived. They ripped it off the post sometime after noon on Saturday and before nine pm on Sunday. Aside from a "tinfoil" cigar package left on the ground near the car, the broken rear-view mirror and the mailbox post, I can't see that anything else was damaged or taken.
I keep trying to figure out what karma this is paying for. . .I never played mailbox baseball.
I keep trying to figure out what karma this is paying for. . .I never played mailbox baseball.
No karma. The world is just unfair sometimes.
Which is great. Imagine you deserved everything bad that ever happened to you. How dreadful a notion that would be. So I usually take solace in the world's unfairness.
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Sometimes, people are just a&&@@~#s. They do what they want and never even think about the people they upset. Or they do think about them and it makes it even funnier to them.
I'm sorry to hear about your mailbox. Has any mail been stolen?
No mail was taken. I was outside on Saturday when the mail carrier arrived. They ripped it off the post sometime after noon on Saturday and before nine pm on Sunday. Aside from a "tinfoil" cigar package left on the ground near the car, the broken rear-view mirror and the mailbox post, I can't see that anything else was damaged or taken.
I keep trying to figure out what karma this is paying for. . .I never played mailbox baseball.
Psychological analysis of evidence - White male, Age 25-45, targeted the car first because you cut him off, and smokes cigars afterwards. This pion is serial killer with low to no impulse control.
Sebastian did it.
That's right! I needed it for my collection!
Sometimes, people are just a&&@@~#s. They do what they want and never even think about the people they upset. Or they do think about them and it makes it even funnier to them.
I'm sorry to hear about your mailbox. Has any mail been stolen?
No mail was taken. I was outside on Saturday when the mail carrier arrived. They ripped it off the post sometime after noon on Saturday and before nine pm on Sunday. Aside from a "tinfoil" cigar package left on the ground near the car, the broken rear-view mirror and the mailbox post, I can't see that anything else was damaged or taken.
I keep trying to figure out what karma this is paying for. . .I never played mailbox baseball.
Pretty sure stealing mailboxes is a federal crime in the US. I'm assuming you reported all this to the police. Have you filed a form with the Postmaster?
According to wiki.answers.com:
Mailboxes are considered federal property, and federal law (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1705), makes it a crime to vandalize them (or to injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited in them). Violators can be fined up to $250,000, or imprisoned for up to three years, for each act of vandalism.
Postal Inspectors recommend these actions to protect your mailbox and any mail that may be inside it:
* Immediately report theft, tampering or destruction of mail or mailboxes to your postmaster. You'll be asked to complete PS Form 1510, Mail Loss and Rifling Report, or PS Form 2016, Mail Theft and Vandalism Complaint. The forms help the Postal Inspection Service determine whether your problem is isolated, or one frequently experienced in your neighborhood.
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We have had our mailboxes stolen, bashed and vandalized for years. The Post Office does nothing and the local sheriff's office could care less.
Fortunately it has been a year since the last vandalism. Last time they packed it with several fireworks and set them off. The mailbox survived alright, but inside it was a mess.
So, tired of the Post Office doing NOTHING I left the crap in there. Every time the mailman sticks stuff in there, to this day, it STINKS. STILL have used fireworks in there.
I figure, it's federal property, I'm tired of nothing being done, so let them deal with the smell and crap inside.
One of these days I plan on getting one of those low light hunting cameras that let you set up and take pictures of game so you can plan your hunt. I'll aim it at the mailbox. Next time I'll have pictures of the punks, and hopefully a plate number.
Oh and one of these days I am going to get TWO mailboxes. One real large so the main one fits inside. Then, I am going to fill the gap with concrete. Smash my mailbox now, @$$*&#e.
Shares Dragnmoons guilty feelings......
Drunk Uni student.... lots of time, lots of alcohol, not much self discipline, or empathy for those that actually worked for a living.
Thinking back now I did some very stupid things, I am actually surprised I am still alive.
One night we stole about 20 mail boxes and built a pyramid in somebodies driveway....
Umm so to anybody that lived in Armidale NSW Australia 16 years ago and had their mail box built into a pyramid I am very sorry,I have no excuse.
No mail was taken. I was outside on Saturday when the mail carrier arrived. They ripped it off the post sometime after noon on Saturday and before nine pm on Sunday. Aside from a "tinfoil" cigar package left on the ground near the car, the broken rear-view mirror and the mailbox post, I can't see that anything else was damaged or taken.
I keep trying to figure out what karma this is paying for. . .I never played mailbox baseball.
Have you gone around to ask your neighbours if anyone had seen anything? The breaking of a rear window is pretty loud and someone may have heard it. Also, someone else on your street may have had similar damage done to them as well. I only ask because I am a cop and come across these things all too often.
Have you gone around to ask your neighbours if anyone had seen anything? The breaking of a rear window is pretty loud and someone may have heard it. Also, someone else on your street may have had similar damage done to them as well. I only ask because I am a cop and come across these things all too often.
I didn't think to fill out any forms for the post office. I did tell the mail carrier yesterday, but she didn't tell me to do anything. . ; however, she also folded my Hackmaster Basic book even though the envelope was clearly stamped "do not bend" so I have begun not to expect much from that quarter.
I've spoken with my neighbors--none of them had heard or seen anything. They were equally surprised as we were. We've got a problem with a couple of kids in the neighborhood who like to fight among themselves in the street in the wee small hours, so we are all hyper vigilant with regards to noise. There's a longer story involved about those kids, but the short one is that I don't think they had anything to do with my mailbox or car. I can't imagine that it was some sort of retaliation because I've been engaged in projects inside the house for the last three weeks, so I've had very little interaction with anyone at all.
The rear window wasn't broken, just the rear-view mirror. The sheriff's officer took dna swabs of the door and interior of the car--which blew my mind (though I certainly don't expect much from that). As a quick aside, the news reported that they arrested someone who is believed to be responsible for several car burglaries here in our county, but since our county is rather large and incorporates the capital city, that doesn't mean much.
As for a camera. . .a short time ago, I purchased one of the those night vision cameras you can keep in a baby's room--nice little device (it records sound and has a good, crisp picture). I tried setting it up in the window of our f.r.o.g. for security reasons (the aforementioned kids) but it doesn't seem to work particularly well through glass. The "infrared lights" create a visual "feed-back" that disrupts the picture.
I didn't think to fill out any forms for the post office. I did tell the mail carrier yesterday, but she didn't tell me to do anything.While it is a federal offense, your Postmaster lacks any real power beyond collecting the data and turning it over to the local cops.
...however, she also folded my Hackmaster Basic book even though the envelope was clearly stamped "do not bend" so I have begun not to expect much from that quarter.
That is something you shouldn't tolerate. Speak to the Postmaster (or Supervisor) by phone or in person and voice your complaint. Remain civil but make it understood that your property was damaged. Your carrier and/or sub will be made to understand that it is not to happen again.
Down here in SW FL, many people build mailbox posts out of concrete block. Then they bolt the mailbox on top, brick around both sides of the mailbox, and affix the flag on the outside after it's been stuccoed & painted. The whole thing doesn't move in a hurricane, and it sure do move when someone swings a baseball bat at it.
When we had a rash of mailbox baseball in our neighborhood, we all find complaints with the sherrif office. It only took one officer less than an hour to call up the local hospitals and find a suspect, who was treated for a broken wrist (he broke it even though he was only clobbering regular metal mailboxes). He rolled over on his buddy. :)
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One of the little details I love about the house I bought last year is there is no mailbox along the street, the postman walks along the neighborhood, dropping the mail into the slot box next to the front door (If there's a different term for them, I don't know it).
Same here, although the bastard who delivers my mail always leaves the damn thing open when it rains....
The very day I planted a nice new wooden mailbox and post at this house I bought, the mailbox went missing the next day. The post was deliberately driven into and knocked askew as well.
So I sez to myself I sez... if I was a gorilla what dun such a thing like dis outta malice, would I have taken the mailbox wit me or would I have thrown it. So I crossed the street and looked at the wooded hill on the other side. Sure enough... there she was. The sheriff arrived a half hour later and offered this after scratching his head:
"Welcome to the neighborhood."
That was over ten years ago and I haven't seen the sheriff since.
I reinstalled the mailbox and it's been fine since. I think the person who struck it may have been the guy who bid on my house first. Apparently I swooped in with a higher offer and the sellers took it instantly because the other guy wouldn't buy until they kept fixing things I was just willing to fix myself. I think he lost the money he spent on an inspection, but that's what you get when you stretch a transaction like that out over three months. I saw the house on a Sunday and got a greenlight that same day. Is that patholgically impulsive?
Now this is why British houses have letterboxes. Try stealing my front door, b&%$~es! :)
I've been lucky in that at both my parents place and at the apartment complex I now live at - we have had a central post box near the front of the street.
My only problem is getting the apartment complex to fix the locks on the big package boxes so my paizo deliveries are not left on my front door step to be stolen. I work a graveyard shift ... so far I've been lucky to be home for all my deliveries.
Now this is why British houses have letterboxes. Try stealing my front door, b@*@~es! :)Address please.
Heh. No. :)
I feel your pain, man. I've never had a problem with my mailbox, but my wife's car was the subject of vandalism a few years back. The driver-side window was completely smashed in - nothing stolen, just a violence for the sake of violence. In Minnesota. In December. And my wife has to drive highways to get to work.
I'm normally a very calm kind of a dude, nonconfrontational almost to a fault. But all I could think about was catching the guy who did it, and how I was going to kick him and keep on kicking him until his nuts were ruptured. Probably a good thing I never did find him (for both of us).