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| Brumby:
--- Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on March 23, 2023, 11:05:41 pm ---Yeah made it myself, with the help of a laser cutter. My sister inlaw did the artwork, there is a bandicoot picture on the other side. Unfortunately I only seem to get bills delivered in it. --- End quote --- I made mine also. .. but this was in the 80's, long before laser cutters. The design was to accept my electronics magazine subscriptions, keeping them flat, protected from rain and thieving fingers. Working well. Needs a little TLC, but still standing tall. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: tpowell1830 on March 17, 2023, 02:54:12 am ---During the Vietnam war, I was a teenager, and a couple of friends decided that it was a good idea to drive around in the country side and do baseball practice on mailboxes with a bat while hanging out the window. This is a federal offense. They were caught and since the mailboxes are considered federal government property, they were given a choice: either go to prison and pay large fines or join the marines and go fight in the war. They chose Vietnam... they both survived and led a normal life. EDIT: I didn't mention that they had a bit of drink to help with their brilliant decision to slam mailboxes... --- End quote --- That doesn't seem to be enforced anymore. Locking mailboxes are getting broken into all the time, people occasionally get caught with a pile of stolen mail in their vehicle and they're let off with a slap on the wrist if they are prosecuted at all. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 26, 2023, 05:42:50 pm --- --- Quote from: tpowell1830 on March 17, 2023, 02:54:12 am ---During the Vietnam war, I was a teenager, and a couple of friends decided that it was a good idea to drive around in the country side and do baseball practice on mailboxes with a bat while hanging out the window. This is a federal offense. They were caught and since the mailboxes are considered federal government property, they were given a choice: either go to prison and pay large fines or join the marines and go fight in the war. They chose Vietnam... they both survived and led a normal life. EDIT: I didn't mention that they had a bit of drink to help with their brilliant decision to slam mailboxes... --- End quote --- That doesn't seem to be enforced anymore. Locking mailboxes are getting broken into all the time, people occasionally get caught with a pile of stolen mail in their vehicle and they're let off with a slap on the wrist if they are prosecuted at all. --- End quote --- Yep. Over here there are several laws that would apply to this and cumulated could yield a pretty severe sentence, but in practice it never happens and nobody seems to really care. (Mailboxes are considered private property, so that would be at least: 1/ damaging private property, 2/ violating the secrecy of correspondance, 3/ theft.) |
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