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Old 11-04-2010, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by sam_midkiff
In my previous house with an RFD mailbox I would fantasize about filling the mailbox with cement. Too many lawyers in the world to actually do it ...
In the South Miami neighborhood where a late friend of mine lived, one of his neighbors lost several steel trash cans to a couple of teenage boys who would ram them with their car late at night; he heard the engine and the collisions, then the screech of tires as they made their getaways. He was never able to get the tag number because they always retreated around the other side of the block while departing the scene. One night he heard the car, a collision, and then...nothing. Going to the scene, he found the wrecked car, the teenagers, his neighbor, and the still-intact trash can--which his neighbor had filled up with concrete!

My friend had his own "run-ins" with another teenage driver, who would do "doughnuts" in his front yard at night (turning the car's steering wheel over hard-left or hard-right, then skidding the tires to rip up the grass and throw up dirt in two concentric circles in the yard). After the second such incident, he buried several lengths of carpet furring strips (thin wood strips) with nails protruding through them in his front yard, with the nails pointing up. When his unwelcome visitor arrived and started doing a doughnut, he stepped outside carrying his pistol. Seeing him, the teenage driver threw his car into reverse and backed up in a panic, puncturing all four tires on the nails in the furring strips. He retreated into the night driving on the rims, and my friend's front yard was never torn up again.
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