Rural porch pirates: ideas?

[MossRoad]

Would have been nice if they DID get it open to find a broken PEZ candy dispenser inside.

 

[Dftodd]

1/4 inch steel and 136 lbs. wow. I’d like to see some kid hit one with a baseball bat. That would be a Wyle E Coyote moment.

My old boss and I were outside the shop doing something with the work van.

Heard a vehicle coming down the street and would hear a whack periodically.

Got to the shops mailbox and heard the whack. Sounded like metal hitting something solid. Then a loud yelp and something metallic hitting the pavement.

Boss started chuckling and walked out to his box and came back with an aluminum bat. Said "That should teach them!!!!"

He got fed up with the kids whacking his mail box. Put a smaller mailbox up for the shop in front of his house box.

Filled that sucker slap full of concrete.

Figured the kid cracked his wrist hitting that box with an aluminum bat. Probably made his teeth rattle too.

Course if you did that these days, you would probably be charged with assault or worse.

 

[mrmikey]

When i was younger we had an 8 x 10 shed in the backyard which bordered on a path and it was always being broken into. All it had was a simple but heavy hasp and a padlock, mind you the hasp was bolted thru the door and was solid, they'd break the padlock and open 'er up. Dad finally got fed up and didn't bother locking it and would keep nothing of value in it.
Worst was, they leave it open and the door would flop back and forth and break the hinges. He ended up putting a razor blade under the bottom edge of the hasp sticking out about a 1/4" or so, never was opened again.
As Dftodd said tho, do that nowdays and you'd be locked up.
Me, I'd do the same thing, it's not yours, don't touch it and there'd be no problem.............Mike

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I think I’ve seen a Fort Knox mailbox near me.

I have a 1/4” steel box, but not a locking door. Someone tried to baseball bat it one night, left a yellow mark on top of the box, I’m sure it stung their hands.

 

[aczlan]

Thanks! I did write them. I will post what they say.

Given what else was going on in the neighborhood when we moved in, this is nothing, and the other stuff gradually died down as we kept calling it. But we still do have moments, probably because we are close to a large metropolitan area, and low lifes interested in shady activity come our way. What they don't realize is that they stand out, and it gets phoned in quickly. My neighbors have various cell phone equipped cameras that catch all sorts of folks.

All the best,

Peter

Add cameras and let your postmaster know, the Post Office gets excited about people stealing from mailboxes.

Aaron Z

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When i was younger we had an 8 x 10 shed in the backyard which bordered on a path and it was always being broken into. All it had was a simple but heavy hasp and a padlock, mind you the hasp was bolted thru the door and was solid, they'd break the padlock and open 'er up. Dad finally got fed up and didn't bother locking it and would keep nothing of value in it.
Worst was, they leave it open and the door would flop back and forth and break the hinges. He ended up putting a razor blade under the bottom edge of the hasp sticking out about a 1/4" or so, never was opened again.
As Dftodd said tho, do that nowdays and you'd be locked up.
Me, I'd do the same thing, it's not yours, don't touch it and there'd be no problem.............Mike

Back in the olden days when fender skirts were in style, they were very regularly stolen. Some of the guys would weld razor blades to the lever that secured them; some of the stories about attempted thefts included cleaning up a lot of blood. I lived in Albuquerque at the time; I lost a set of custom louvered fender skirts, several sets of hub caps, my radio and a spare tire. If it wasn't tied down or locked up, it disappeared.

 

[PILOON]

After reporting a B & E at my chalet I jokingly suggested to the LEO (that was writing the report) that spiking my bottle of Voka with sleeping pills might help capture the perp.
He answered that I'd be the loser as I'd be cited for 'entrapment'.
Go figure,

 

[ponytug]

Add cameras and let your postmaster know, the Post Office gets excited about people stealing from mailboxes.

Aaron Z

I wish that were the case here, but it isn't. We have gotten the local LEO involved for when there have been successful thefts in the neighborhood and local law enforcement have convicted a few (which is how we know that some of the perpetrators have come from 50-80 miles away), but the postal inspector's response has been along the lines of "yeah, it happens. If you can't prove over a thousand dollars in losses, don't bother us."

+1 for local LEOs.

All the best,

Peter