Life GD Drunk Drivers - Page 6

**pr_capone** · 07-05-2010, 02:52 AM

Had one plow through my front lawn around 3:10 this morning. I hoped out of bed and grabbed my wallet & phone and went off after them. Found the car in an apartment complex parking lot torn to shreds.

Called 911, gave the tag number, description of driver, and 40 minutes later not a cop to be found anywhere.

*pics of damage soon to follow

**mikeyis4dcats.** · 07-06-2010, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BWillie007

While I agree in the case described. The guy filled the inside of his mailbox with concrete. It was a trick, and he was trying to deceive people.

In the real world and what most people do to reinforce a mailbox won't be an issue. If you have a large brick or concrete mailbox, someone is going to get hurt potentially if they hit it. Even if you have a heavy duty pipe reinforced mailbox, you will be fine. If you install a special steel post down 10 meters into the ground that can be seen on the outside as not a typical wood post, I would have a hard time thinking a jury would find you to to be liable to pay for alot of damages. If you try to conceal it and make it look different than it is and there is malicious intent then I think there would be an issue.

thats the crux...concealment. So long as it can be seen it is a steel pipe post or has a concrete pillar, you're fine. But if you take steps to hide a steel post or something that's where you will get in trouble.

MOhillbilly · 07-06-2010, 11:24 AM

when i was in HS some pussy beat my mailbox off and ran it over flat as a pancake.

Al Bundy · 07-06-2010, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Omaha

Then set up a camera and bust them. No problem with the penal system here. You don't get to take the law into your own hands. Someone already said it: No vigilante justice.

Haha video tape it and press charges?? They would laugh at you and say "Just replace the mailbox, we're not even wasting our time on this."

Brock · 07-06-2010, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

thats the crux...concealment. So long as it can be seen it is a steel pipe post or has a concrete pillar, you're fine. But if you take steps to hide a steel post or something that's where you will get in trouble.

As has already been pointed out, you can be sued either way and the outcome of any lawsuit is not certain. It's what umbrella policies are for.

**Bugeater** · 07-06-2010, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by BWillie007

While I agree in the case described. The guy filled the inside of his mailbox with concrete. It was a trick, and he was trying to deceive people.

In the real world and what most people do to reinforce a mailbox won't be an issue. If you have a large brick or concrete mailbox, someone is going to get hurt potentially if they hit it. Even if you have a heavy duty pipe reinforced mailbox, you will be fine. If you install a special steel post down 10 meters into the ground that can be seen on the outside as not a typical wood post, I would have a hard time thinking a jury would find you to to be liable to pay for alot of damages. If you try to conceal it and make it look different than it is and there is malicious intent then I think there would be an issue.

I dunno, I would still recommend checking your local building codes and ordinances before reinforcing one in any way. Like I mentioned earlier, I know the brick and mortar mailboxes aren't allowed in Omaha, and while people do build them anyway, I could easily see them having legal issues if someone hits one of them and gets injured.

**Saul Good** · 07-06-2010, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Omaha

If this were true, and it's not, the boulder would cause the same exposure.

The rock can be seen, and a reasonable person (the standard used in courts) understands what happens if they run over a rock. A booby trapped mailbox is like burying land mines in your yard to stop somebody from farming it.

If you want to fill your mailbox with cement, I'm all for it. Just don't act shocked when you find yourself in court.

Hootie · 07-06-2010, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by HemiEd

See, this is a good example of the crack down on drunk drivers.

People aren't any good at it anymore. This kind of stuff never used to happen.

because back in the day when people used to get caught the cops made them poor out their beers and go the **** home...

just like if two kids fought in school they were sent home...

now everything is jail, jail, jail, jail...

Omaha · 07-06-2010, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by UCFGoldenKnight

Haha video tape it and press charges?? They would laugh at you and say "Just replace the mailbox, we're not even wasting our time on this."

This is absolutely false.

Omaha · 07-06-2010, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good

The rock can be seen, and a reasonable person (the standard used in courts) understands what happens if they run over a rock. A booby trapped mailbox is like burying land mines in your yard to stop somebody from farming it.

If you want to fill your mailbox with cement, I'm all for it. Just don't act shocked when you find yourself in court.

Saul, I agree with you 100%. My post wasn't about boobytrapping the mailbox. I thought the guy was just nervous about getting a sturdier base that would stand up better than wood.

Al Bundy · 07-06-2010, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Omaha

This is absolutely false.

Well maybe in smaller cities... The bigger cities like Kansas City would just laugh at you.

**HemiEd** · 07-06-2010, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by The Meat Dragon

because back in the day when people used to get caught the cops made them poor out their beers and go the **** home...

just like if two kids fought in school they were sent home...

now everything is jail, jail, jail, jail...

Yep, we used to measure distance by beer consumption. "Oh, that is about a six pack away."

Cop: "Now run on home, and don't let me see you out again tonight."

But yeah, awareness has heightened the punishment, as is should be.

**Bugeater** · 07-06-2010, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Omaha

Saul, I agree with you 100%. My post wasn't about boobytrapping the mailbox. I thought the guy was just nervous about getting a sturdier base that would stand up better than wood.

Actually, that's what I was thinking of doing at the time. I wanted to set a 4" steel tube into a couple feet of concrete, and then fill it with concrete, and my mother in law was advised by a lawyer not to do it due to potential liability issues.

But now that I think about it, it may have been because of the type of mailbox I was planning on using. It was one of those one piece plastic mailboxes that is designed to slide over a wood post, therefore the steel one would be concealed. That's probably what the legal hangup was.

**Bugeater** · 07-06-2010, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by UCFGoldenKnight

Well maybe in smaller cities... The bigger cities like Kansas City would just laugh at you.

If you can get a clear ID on who did it, they *might* do something about it. But they sure as hell aren't going to conduct an investigation over it.

**HemiEd** · 07-06-2010, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

If you can get a clear ID on who did it, they *might* do something about it. But they sure as hell aren't going to conduct an investigation over it.

They have a law up here about people building those in-destructable mailboxes, because they damage the snow plows.

Some, of the people were getting pretty creative with huge brick en-casements, that would stop a big snow plow in it's tracks.

As far as someone running over a mail box, they deserve what they get.

**pr_capone** · 07-06-2010, 03:40 PM

Just finished talking with her insurance company. An adjuster is supposed to be calling me tomorrow to get something set up.

Prolly get a couple of Ben's for the trouble.

Found out that the chick that wrecked my mailbox was found in her car passed out and was arrested for DUI. What asshattery. Let's celebrate the birth of our nation by getting wasted and possibly killing a bunch of people.

I've driven drunk once in my life when I was 19... NEVER did it again.

07-05-2010, 02:52 AM
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07-06-2010, 11:24 AM	#77
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07-06-2010, 03:40 PM	#90
pr_capone THREEPEAT!!! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NWMO Casino cash: $9948214	Just finished talking with her insurance company. An adjuster is supposed to be calling me tomorrow to get something set up. Prolly get a couple of Ben's for the trouble. Found out that the chick that wrecked my mailbox was found in her car passed out and was arrested for DUI. What asshattery. Let's celebrate the birth of our nation by getting wasted and possibly killing a bunch of people. I've driven drunk once in my life when I was 19... NEVER did it again.
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