Originally Posted by bjuice
Originally Posted by harbone66
My buddy lives down the road from me in the middle of nowhere had the same problem. His solution was a cut off railroad rail, set in 12 inches of concrete, a 1/4 inch steel plate custom made mailbox. now heres the kicker, he buried wires to it, hooked up an electric fence transformer to a timer that turned on at night (so not to shock his mailman). He has not had an issue since and actually had someone sideswipe the box a few months back, did about $1800 worth of damage to the kids car and the kid got in trouble since it turns out he was running down mailbox's elsewhere! I will take some pics when I get a chance...
what your Buddy has done is called 'BOOBY TRAPPING"..its highely illegal on the state and federal level..I was gonna post a thread about it but there is so much information on the subject I will leave it up to anyone to google themselves.
I have personally known a man LOCALLY for getting charged with boobytrapping by doing the same thing to his fence your buddy did to his mail box.
X2... We run buildings on the southside of chicago in some of the highest crime rate areas in the country, you have to be careful how you go about security. If you set up any form of security that will intentionaly cause harm to someone it is considered booby traping. you will be in VERY deep chit if someone is hurt or killed. we use ADT and a whole lot of iron bars for security. ( I am never done making iron bars :roll: )