Vandalism ends in bizarre death...(Hold Muh...Oh Crap!)

Nebraska Journal Star ^ | 11/19/2002 | TOBY MANTHEY

[Weimdog]

Stupid is as stupid does...

[JavaTheHutt]

What a way to go out. His family must be proud.

[Fiddlstix]

More Darwin?

[IncPen]

My father used to say that "Experience keeps a dear school, and the tuition is expensive..."

[Shermy]

Nebraska, morons and vehicles. A connection?

Truck Explodes In South Omaha

[JRandomFreeper]

He would not identify the make of the vehicle.

Who cares about the make of the vehicle. What kind of club fails catastrophically like that?

/john

[Chad Fairbanks]

So... is that a bogey?

[dead]

Fore!

[JRandomFreeper]

They didn't even say if it was a wood or an iron. Considering the decedant's probable IQ and blood-alchohol, it was probably a putter.

/john

[Dan Day]

Who cares about the make of the vehicle. What kind of club fails catastrophically like that?

Better yet, I want to know the brand of mailbox that strikes back at moronic mailbox bashers.

I'll buy a dozen.

[Billthedrill]

You can't tell me the designers of these instruments couldn't have know what they'd be used for. I smell a product liability lawsuit here...hey, this isn't even a joke, the Raven arms lawsuit had less merit and the plaitiffs won that one!

[Mark]

I remember reading about a homeowner whose trash cans were being hit by an old vehicle every week for about two months. Finally he poured concrete into one and some kids ended up in the hospital and lawsuits were to follow.

[windcliff]

You're suppose to use a baseball bat not a golf club..rank amateurs.

[tictoc]

Better yet, I want to know the brand of mailbox that strikes back at moronic mailbox bashers.

You rang?

Maginot Mailbox

[GreenHornet]

"More Darwin?"

Yes, I'd say we have a definite Darwin Award candidate here.

[smokinleroy]

If the victim was named Juan, that swing would have made a "hole-in-Juan"!

[Bitwhacker]

Just goes to show you: Play graphite shafts, save a life....

[Republic of Texas]

Thank God you finally got to the point of this thread!

[Gorzaloon]

Our rural neighborhood could never keep mailboxes. Every graduation, they were all squashed with crowbars, baseball bats, etc.

So everyone had a "More Power Tooltime" Manly contest to find ways to defeat the vandals.

One guy had a swinging counterweight, so when the mailbox was hit, the beam on which it and the wieght was mounted would rotate and cream the car door.

Mine was more passive.

I bent, on a hydraulic press, a curve exactly matching the radius of a usual thin flimsy rural box, and bandsawed ends and made a nice door, and welded it all up, onto a 4" cement filled lally column.

It came out nice, looking just like the normal mailbox.

Oh. It was made of 1/4" thick 18-Nickel Maraging Steel, like they use on the Space Shuttle Boosters.

One night we heard a clank and swearing. There was a little 60 degree ding in one corner from a crowbar.

Another time we found the stub of a broken aluminum baseball bat. (I never knew they were filled with urethane..)

A local hardware store wanted to sell them for me, and the mailman loved it.

In recent years, the night riders seem to have lost interest in box-bashing.

[commish]

Dang from the passanger side, through the back window and acroos the backseat - that boy has a wicked slice, must be a 36 handicapper.

oh well, Stupid Dies as Stupid Does.