Sometime in the night between 11:15 PM and 3:30 AM, while I was gone to work, someone ran off the road through my ditch ...
Wild Driver
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... went OVER the culvert and driveway ...
... landed in the ditch on the other side ...
... and was pulled out.
whirlcool
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I see you have those ramps on the sides of your driveway. Those are real life savers! Around here you see many driveways without those ramps on main highways. At a lot of them have those little white memorial crosses.
With a ramp the car is lifted up OVER the driveway. Without it, it is like running your car into a brick wall.
We have a lot of subdivisions around here with brick enclosure walls. Come Sunday morning quite a few of them have hold in the fence or entire sections knocked down!
With a ramp the car is lifted up OVER the driveway. Without it, it is like running your car into a brick wall.
We have a lot of subdivisions around here with brick enclosure walls. Come Sunday morning quite a few of them have hold in the fence or entire sections knocked down!
We're "in the country" just barely, and regularly see similar tracks around our place...someone took out the guard rail of the bridge over our creek a couple of years ago...but mostly, they just mow down our mailbox.
This year I've replaced it three times. This last time, they drove right into it, snapped the 4 x 4 post off at the ground, and flattened everything else. So, I decided instead of killing my back one more time digging a post-hole, we set the 4 x 4 into a huge flowerpot, filled with 2 1/2 bags of cement mix, with some nice, heavy rocks set into the top. If they try it again, they won't have a "front end" to worry about.
Of course, the next week they just flattened the box with a sledgehammer, leaving our nice flowerpot full-concrete untouched. So, we got a cheap plastic mailbox and decided they can bash it all they want...it'll just spring back into shape!
This year I've replaced it three times. This last time, they drove right into it, snapped the 4 x 4 post off at the ground, and flattened everything else. So, I decided instead of killing my back one more time digging a post-hole, we set the 4 x 4 into a huge flowerpot, filled with 2 1/2 bags of cement mix, with some nice, heavy rocks set into the top. If they try it again, they won't have a "front end" to worry about.
Of course, the next week they just flattened the box with a sledgehammer, leaving our nice flowerpot full-concrete untouched. So, we got a cheap plastic mailbox and decided they can bash it all they want...it'll just spring back into shape!
