We've been living in this house for 4 years. Last night some drunk babe wiped out our 3rd mailbox. This mailbox was a fortress. The sots truck might just be totaled, but she's ok.
Here's the thing, my husband is freaking out thinking we're gonna get sued. The code enforcement officer of our town had previously mailed us a letter telling us the mailbox was a permanent structure and not allowed in the town's right-of-way (apparently a mailbox on a post in the ground isn't permanent but set it into the ground with some concrete and now it is). In person though, he told us the letter was just a formality to appease the plowman (this would be the plowman responsible for the loss of an earlier mailbox). I think we could argue out of the permanent structure status at this point.
We took great care in setting the mailbox as far off the road as we could yet still make it accessible to the mail lady. We also had reflector strips on it (there are no street lights on my road).
Anyway, the woman was clearly drunk. She never tried to brake. She just went off the road at full ramming speed at our mailbox. Had the mailbox not stopped her the mongo trees would have - they'd have been less forgiving.
I might be worried except that the woman was really drunk. She didn't get any good evidence of the crime scene like we did.
edit - break /= brake
Edited, Dec 1st 2010 9:38pm by Elinda