Mailbox got hit... can you identify the car?

[03trubluGT]

By the way.. The third time? Is it in an awkward position or on a curve or something? It may be time for your neighbor to set up their own camera zoomed up on it!

Make that thing solid enough to stop a tank and the evidence will still be there in the morning!

[Chili]

Those things are designed flimsy for a reason.

I see everything from just the plate dislocated to whole front facias torn off with the plate.

How many plates do you see lying in the roadway on a daily basis? Almost nil.

Road debris gets brushed off to the side with the passage of traffic. If the plate was in the road, I'd give a 98.999999% chance it's from the offending vehicle.

Yeah, I'm definitely leaning that direction. May have been knocked off by the brick debris.

[BlackGT]

I can tell you what vehicle the plate is registered to...if I had the plate #.

[Chili]

Make that thing solid enough to stop a tank and the evidence will still be there in the morning!

Mount those security posts like they have around government buildings and such, lol. I actually remember seeing them install those in front of one of those Extreme Home Makeover homes a long time ago. The house was at the end of a T intersection and car(s) had come into the house before.

[8mpg]

By the way.. The third time? Is it in an awkward position or on a curve or something? It may be time for your neighbor to set up their own camera zoomed up on it!

third time since he moved in little over a year ago. Previous owner had a couple knocked out. Its just past the curve (far enough you should have turned your wheels back straight) but too many people speed. Speed limit is 30 but lots of people doing 40 around the curve.

I talked to him this morning and the plan is a couple 4" square tubing 36" into the ground all the way up to the mailbox itself. Im sure it can be taken out again but hopefully the car wont be moving after it hits.

I will try and get the plate number when I see him. Might not be until tomorrow

[Chili]

third time since he moved in little over a year ago. Previous owner had a couple knocked out. Its just past the curve (far enough you should have turned your wheels back straight) but too many people speed. Speed limit is 30 but lots of people doing 40 around the curve.

I talked to him this morning and the plan is a couple 4" square tubing 36" into the ground all the way up to the mailbox itself. Im sure it can be taken out again but hopefully the car wont be moving after it hits.

I will try and get the plate number when I see him. Might not be until tomorrow

Makes me glad our mailbox is up by the front door. Though I'm sure the mailman hates it.

And I would definitely be bracing that in some way.

[bubbaearl]

check with the county. i live on a FM road and can not even put up my own . everything has to be breakaway . otherwise it is a law suit waiting to happen.

[Cooter]

looks like an explorer to me

[mustang1200]

I would have someone sink a utility pole into the ground then saw it off. Build a mailbox around that then watch it fuck some shit up when it gets hit.

[SEB]

Dman you would think that would have done some damage to that SUV with how hard they hit it

[Roscoe]

the plan is a couple 4" square tubing 36" into the ground all the way up to the mailbox itself.

That'll do just fine....

[KBScobravert]

2' around the sides of the box Sink 6' posts filled with concrete into the ground 4'. Leaves 2' sticking up. Then plant bushes around the box disguising the posts. Next time they hit the mail box (hopefully more solidly built this time) the will get stuck trying to back off of it. Think of a barb on a fish hook.

[Roscoe]

2' around the sides of the box Sink 6' posts filled with concrete into the ground 4'. Leaves 2' sticking up. Then plant bushes around the box disguising the posts. Next time they hit the mail box (hopefully more solidly built this time) the will get stuck trying to back off of it. Think of a barb on a fish hook.

Even better...

[John -- '02 HAWK]

I would guess its 90s Yukon/blazer

[talisman]

People bitch and moan about front plates all the time, and when they come off as designed (as probably in this case) they refuse to see the reason it's a law in the first place.

Still desperately clinging to that old chestnut, huh? I bet those plate brackets in the 20's when the law was enacted were really flimsy, seeing as plastics didn't see mass manufacturing until the 40's. But hey, just like usual, don't let facts get in the way of the dumbass little fairy tales you tell yourself as job justification.