Re: Long range wireless or other solution?

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

Bob Worthy wrote:
> "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1164823767.797562.97030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I smile at the thought of someone coming along, riding in a car with a
> > baseball
> > bat, hitting mail boxes.
> >
> > I just hope no one ever runs into it with their car.
>
> Many years ago, I lived in a very rural part of northern Michigan. A
> neighbor, which was actually quite a ways down the road, made something
> similar but used a "I" beam piece of steal and cemented it in for the
> support. He too was fed up with loosing mailboxes. About mid January when
> the snow was at it's peak, the road crew would come by and dress the snow
> banks to keep the roads open. These banks got very high and they would have
> to dress them back further and further. Since they were not actually
> plowing, they would do this at a good clip. One of the county plows caught
> his blade on that mailbox and put that big plow into a bunch of 360's. The
> banks were high and packed enough it kept the truck on the road for the most
> part but driver was not a happy camper. Scared the crap out of the driver
> and it was the talk of town at the coffee shop. There was talk of
> prosecution etc. but I don't think anything ever happened.

Yeah, I thought about the snowplows hitting it also.  I built a planter
around the bottom out off CVA wood . I'm hoping that they might see the
planter or hit the planter first. I also painted the box and the
planter dark brown, hoping it would contrast with the snow.

It just occurs to me ( in you story above)  that if they prosecuted and
won, then what would stop people who's mail boxes they were able to
knock down, from filing against them for replacement? I can imagine
that was at least part of the reason they didn't persue it.

That event must have been the talk of the town for weeks. The driver
was probably more embarrassed, then anything else.