Re: Long range wireless or other solution?

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bob Worthy wrote:
> > "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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?

The few that lived out in the boonies (I was eleven miles from town and
thirty one miles to the nearest McDonalds) didn't have much clout against
the county. I am sure people bitched, but that was at the coffee shop too.
Most mail delivery during the winter was canceled, because the mailboxes
were either buried, knocked down, and in alot of cases the roads would be
impassable for a day to two until the plows made it down. So 4 wheel drives
or snowmobile to town to get mail and grocerys was the way of life.

 I can imagine
> that was at least part of the reason they didn't persue it.

And the fact that it is all family anyway. They probably thought it to be
funny when they took down their cousins mailbox.

> That event must have been the talk of the town for weeks.

Anything other than getting up in the morning and going to bed at night
(unless it was suspected that it was with someone elses wife) was the talk
of the town. Everyone knew everyone and everyone elses business. Two traffic
lights, both blinkers, and the stop signs read "Whoa". Places named Chimney
Corners, Indian River, Wolverine, Bliss, Pontuange, Burtis, Topinabee. Does
that paint a picture for you?

 The driver
> was probably more embarrassed, then anything else.

Probably, but I'll bet he brought up at one of the local redneck bars on a
cold winter Saturday night. The locals would fight over anything and if no
one else was there they would fight their own brothers for entertainment.
Funny how long winters effect people. Glad I am in Florida.
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