I must confess that I don't know what the car looked like (before or after) that picked a fight with my mailbox today. I'm pretty sure it would fit in the comedy routine "you might be a redneck". For it to have been this one I think it would have to have been a redneck from another country.
However, you might be a redneck if you felt the need to test the crumple zone of that engineering marvel you drive against someones mailbox.
However, you might be a redneck if you felt the need to test the crumple zone of that engineering marvel you drive against someones mailbox.
You might be a less than intelligent redneck if you picked the most battle hardened mailbox on the block to attack. The box itself was purchased from Sam's and is boiler plate thickness. The pole is a 4" steel pipe. The first car that hit it lost a bumper and threw the mailbox about 100' down the ditch. My remedy for that was to build a concrete pad that's about 2 cubic feet. That has also been dislodged and today it was crooked. I could probably avoid problems by cleaning the growth from the concrete so it become obvious.
I have no idea how this track was made. Normal tire tracks across the ditch but when they approached the box the track became possibly 3" wide and an inch deep. That track stops right at the concrete.
Whatever committed this cowardly attack came across the crushed concrete /gravel drive and narrowly missed the poured concrete culvert abutment above.
On the exit side these whole concrete bags have been here so long they have become part of the earth. This dislodged them as evidenced by the crack.
Then he took off across this muddy ditch and headed straight for the mailbox. It is obvious that he was unimpressed with my mailbox because he headed for my neighbors when he left mine.
If he had landed in this I suppose he would still be there. Pure redneck luck.
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