Now I’m pissed

Can you not setup a deal with a tow company and have them towed?
 
Blueone said:
Well as expected the girls in the office are all wound up

Had one of them call the township. Apparently steel fence posts are not allowed. That right there makes me want to do it more.
The town is going to come out and survey the chaos and tell me what my options are.
I also found out today trucks are parking in my parking lot overnight waiting to get into Gordon’s

Let the battle begin
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Wow, you have to ask for permission from the town, is it not your land?
 
Blueone said:
Well as expected the girls in the office are all wound up

Had one of them call the township. Apparently steel fence posts are not allowed. That right there makes me want to do it more.
The town is going to come out and survey the chaos and tell me what my options are.
I also found out today trucks are parking in my parking lot overnight waiting to get into Gordon’s

Let the battle begin
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Sounds more and more like some large boulders are in your future and possibly a security gate.
 
Blueone said:
Easement…. Supposedly they think they own the first 12’

Hang tight….. I’m just getting started
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The easement is for whoever maintains the road and utilities. From what I have been told landowners actually own to the center of the road, with the easement of course.
 
So, are you sure some kids in their 4X4 didn't wax the box? Looks like someone intentionally went into the grass looking at the tracks in your Pic. Happens around here a lot. One local fellow put a crane rail in the post and ended up being taken to jail as when the truck's drive train was being extracted the drunk riders in the back got thrown out and hurt.
 
ttmott said:
So, are you sure some kids in their 4X4 didn't wax the box? Looks like someone intentionally went into the grass looking at the tracks in your Pic. Happens around here a lot. One local fellow put a crane rail in the post and ended up being taken to jail as when the truck's drive train was being extracted the drunk riders in the back got thrown out and hurt.
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You k ow I didn’t really look at the pics to try and figure it out. In the first pic with the truck in it. The post of the mailbox is in its location just pushed over… but it’s pushed over going up hill on the wrong side of the street…. But the mailbox is down hill from it….. so that doesn’t make sense. Unless the truck backed over the mailbox but that wouldnt explain why the mailbox itself is forward of the post
 
Hey Blueone, be sure to let us know what kind of magazines you like before you get hauled off.:)
 
Well after calling the township they had contacted the State Police to come out and tell me what I can do....as far as the township is concerned they dont care what I do. The township is putting up a temporary mailbox and then they said they would put a new post in and I have to buy the plastic box to slide over it

The township said they have been getting numerous calls about the problem with Gordon Foods.... so I'm not the only whiner at least
 
Blueone said:
Well as expected the girls in the office are all wound up

Had one of them call the township. Apparently steel fence posts are not allowed. That right there makes me want to do it more.
The town is going to come out and survey the chaos and tell me what my options are.
I also found out today trucks are parking in my parking lot overnight waiting to get into Gordon’s

Let the battle begin
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Yeah - parking in the lot is BS. That could cause major problems if your lot isn’t rated for heavy traffic.
 
ttmott said:
So, are you sure some kids in their 4X4 didn't wax the box? Looks like someone intentionally went into the grass looking at the tracks in your Pic. Happens around here a lot. One local fellow put a crane rail in the post and ended up being taken to jail as when the truck's drive train was being extracted the drunk riders in the back got thrown out and hurt.
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Always been curious about this. Where my wife’s family is from, there are a lot of mail boxes that live inside little brick houses. they’re maybe 1.5’ off the road, where people are driving 50-65mph. Can’t imagine that ending well if some teenager runs into it, smashes up their car and ends their life.
 
jmauld said:
Always been curious about this. Where my wife’s family is from, there are a lot of mail boxes that live inside little brick houses. they’re maybe 1.5’ off the road, where people are driving 50-65mph. Can’t imagine that ending well if some teenager runs into it, smashes up their car and ends their life.
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Ah but you don't get the difference; i'll give more of the details- one, where your family lives, is a structure intended to hold mail the other intended to inflict damage and teach a lesson - the property owner admitted as much. The guy in my little story was fed up with the punks running over his mailbox and not getting any action from law enforcement so decided to take matters in his own hands knowing his actions could be harmful. I get his frustration. Our Sheriff's dept are good community people and I understand were apprehensive executing the arrest but didn't have a choice; however, they were in court on the guy's behalf. He ended up doing some public service but the punks were charged with defacing US gov property and maliciously damaging private property. One (the driver) served time in jail and another a convicted felon went back to prison, and two others public service.
 
ttmott said:
Ah but you don't get the difference; i'll give more of the details- one, where your family lives, is a structure intended to hold mail the other intended to inflict damage and teach a lesson - the property owner admitted as much. The guy in my little story was fed up with the punks running over his mailbox and not getting any action from law enforcement so decided to take matters in his own hands knowing his actions could be harmful. I get his frustration. Our Sheriff's dept are good community people and I understand were apprehensive executing the arrest but didn't have a choice; however, they were in court on the guy's behalf. He ended up doing some public service but the punks were charged with defacing US gov property and maliciously damaging private property. One (the driver) served time in jail and another a convicted felon went back to prison, and two others public service.
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That sounds like a bad lawyer on the side of the home owner. If I choose to use a 6” steel post because my other one keeps falling down. That’s my choice. It surely can’t be my fault you ran into it….. no different then an electrical pole or a tree on my property
 
Blueone said:
That sounds like a bad lawyer on the side of the home owner. If I choose to use a 6” steel post because my other one keeps falling down. That’s my choice. It surely can’t be my fault you ran into it….. no different then an electrical pole or a tree on my property
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It's the semantics and intention that bit him. He admitted something to the effect - this will stop them....
If you said " that's a great idea and I'll teach them a lesson" in a post on this forum- you'll will land yourself in the gulag should something happen.
Now if you "innocently" went out and poured an 18 inch sonotube concrete post to hold up the mail box then you are fault free.
 
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