Posted on 01/13/2022 5:17:09 PM PST by MAGA2017
The edge of the road/pavement is probably NOT the edge of the easement.
The easement should be not impeded by such “Brick Outhouses”.
I think the owner could be liable.
It might be work to activate the county or city into action.
If you keep your car where it belongs, on the road, it doesn’t matter what the mailboxes are made of.
Maybe people should try that.
L
Please read my posts here again. The roads in the neighborhood are extremely narrow (also hilly and curvy) with no shoulders or sidewalks. There is not room to pass a truck or other wide vehicle coming from the opposite direction unless one of the vehicles pulls over somewhat onto the grass or a driveway. People walk and jog and bike in the road.
If you come around a curve and find someone pushing a baby carriage in front of you and another vehicle approaching from the opposite direction, you have four choices: (1) stop, if you can do so in time (2) veer right onto to grass or a driveway (3) hit the baby carriage and person pushing it (4) veer left and hit the other vehicle head-on.
Choice #1 is preferred, but often impossible, even at 20 mph. Choice #2 is next best, but if there is a brick outhouse in the way, not so hot. Choice #3 will certainly result in severe injury or death. Choice #4 is no fun, either.
I was recently confronted with this very dilemma myself. I live there and know to just creep along in certain places and was only going 7 mph when the baby carriage appeared in front of me. I was able to stop. Delivery trucks, lawn service vehicles, etc., and others unfamiliar with the neighborhood do not creep along at 7 mph. Hence the utility company truck smashing into one of the brick outhouses.
I know it’s snobbish of me, but those gauche monstrosities also offend my sensibilities. But that’s neither here nor there. Tacky does not equal dangerous. It’s merely unpleasant.
Yes, it would be work. Surely the city would have done something after the utility company truck crashing into one, if they’d a mind to. The local government tends to go soft on our neighborhood. Our former governor (R) was a neighbor for many years before moving into the governor’s mansion. Before that, he was mayor. Other Republican mayors over the years also lived here. We get great garbage service, police service (rarely needed, and then only for porch pirates), etc., which is nice.
Yankees and Californians have been moving here in droves, and our current mayor is a ditzy Democrat. The people with the brick outhouses are likewise out-of-staters of the Dem persuasion and politically connected (why we still get excellent city services). Sadly, the city is turning blue. Things change. I’m in the process of selling the house and moving to a very red backwater in another state.
Keep control of your vehicle at all times. Don’t drive too fast for conditions.
L
Personally, I never do (drive too fast).
Either you are hardheaded or lack basic reading comprehension skills. Or maybe you have a brick outhouse of your own to defend. Maybe your brick outhouse is on a wide straight road, or one with shoulders and poses little danger to anyone.
An inanimate object on the side of the road is not a hazard in and of itself. Morons who don’t drive defensively are.
It’s not like these mailboxes lie in wait and spring out into the roadway. If you don’t know the area, slow the **** down!
If there are hazards in the road, slow the **** down!
If the road conditions are sub- optimal, slow the **** down!
I’ve had to replace 4 mailboxes because idiot drivers can’t follow these simple rules. My next mailbox will be built like a brick outhouse for that very reason.
And I will feel zero guilt if some mouth breathing dipstick wrecks his or her car when they run into it.
L
My mailbox has been knocked down more times than I care to count, so I can sympathize. I just keep putting up another regular, respectable proper regulation mailbox.
By the way, USPS drivers hate them. Several in my neighborhood have been clipped but good by the USPS vehicle. Gouges in the sides after knocking out stones and bricks. They may be in cahoots with the stone masons and brick masons who then repair them :)
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