Great to know that this seems to be a universal pastime. I blew upquite a number of mailboxes in my youth. Most of them were mounted on walls and would more or less just fall off and be bent out of shape. In one instance however, we took matters too far by blasting a blockof three mailboxes out of a wall. Those were cheap enameled mailboxes in a painted wall. We were watched and ratted on and took a great deal of hell for it. The owners were rather easygoing about the damage though. As it turned out they ripped off their insurance and got themselves nice brass mailboxes in a white marble plate so they weren't all too sad. Oh and I did manage to stop my buddy who was wanting to blow up a /public/ mailbox full of letters waiting to be collected...
But all this can't beat my neighbor (now deceased) who as a little box after the end of WW2 wanted to punish a neighbor for mistreating his parents and blew up their mailbox. Problem was he used an altered 88 mm flak grenade and there were no windows left intact hundreds of meters around so him and his parents got in big trouble... 2011/8/19 Walt Gilbert <ldott...@gmail.com>: > That actually reminded me of my own youthful stupidity. > > Growing up, I had a good friend who liked to make his own homemade small > explosives out of basic chemistry-set type chemicals, and he was pretty good > at it. He made them out of cardboard, paraffin and firework fuses, etc. > They were pretty much glorified M-80's. I had him make a few of them for > me, just to show off to some of my other friends, because that sort of thing > is impressive to teenage boys. > > Well, one night I was out running around on the back roads drinking beer, as > was the fashion in those days in rural western Kentucky, when you could > still kind of get away with that sort of thing. As we passed one of our > classmates' houses who was generally regarded as a bit of a pampered rich > boy, someone said, "We ought to blow up his mailbox." > > Well, it sounded like a great idea at the time, so we turned around and > headed back to the guy's house, whereupon I hopped out, lit the firecracker, > pitched it in the box, and closed the hatch. The thing blew all to hell as > I was running back toward the truck, and there was burning mail and ash > floating to the ground as I hopped in and we drove off. > > Seconds later, headlights appeared in the rear view mirror. Seems the > pampered rich boy had just gotten home from a night out with his girlfriend > and was sitting in his driveway listening to the radio watching the whole > thing go down. > > Needless to say, I was at his house replacing the mailbox, bright and early > the next morning. > > -- Walt > > On 8/19/2011 11:00 AM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> OK, I've got one I know you'll all enjoy: >> >> A couple of weeks ago in our sleepy town, a young man, recent high >> school graduate& football player, took his friends up on a dare, and >> for $20, went streaking through a Little League game one evening. An >> eye-opening sight for the 9 year olds& their parents, surely. >> Dashing from one side of the field to the other, he jumped the fence& >> got into his friend's red pick-up truck& they drove off. >> >> His one mistake was dropping his cell phone as he jumped the fence . >> (No, I don't know where he was carrying it...) Police were called, >> they found the phone, opened it up, and there was a photo of the >> Streaker, wearing his football jersey. He was number 54. Didn't take >> long before the cops found the truck, and several teens hanging out at >> a nearby beach. Playing it cool, the officer asks if any of them play >> football...? Yes? What's your number...? Case closed. >> >> The ultimate stoopidity in this case comes with the Streaker facing >> felony charges of something or other... Being Naked While Running...? >> In addition, if convicted, the Streaker would have to register as a >> sex offender in the state of Massachusetts. Most likely, the case >> will be continued without a finding, but still... a sober reminder of >> what can happen when both teenagers& cops are bored. >> >> :) >> -c >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Walt Gilbert<ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 8/18/2011 1:48 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Ann Sanfedele<ann...@nyc.rr.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Thief-Jacks-Car-With-Kids-Poodle-Drops-Them-All-Off-at-Home-127999188.html >>>> >>>> There seems to be a rash of totally inept criminals lately. They pop >>>> up on the morning news here at least once a week. Where the heck are >>>> today's Lex Luthors? >>>> >>> It may sound like an urban legend, but I happen to know this one to be >>> true, >>> as I personally know one of the guys who did it. In fact, I talked to >>> him >>> less than a month ago. >>> >>> Anyway, the local sheriff's department had made a pot bust and seized a >>> bunch of plants that'd been growing on a local farm. There was a big >>> story >>> on the local news about it, as usual, so everyone in town was talking >>> about >>> it. Since it's a rural area, everyone pretty much knows everyone else -- >>> and that includes the people on the sheriff's department. >>> >>> Well, this guy I know and a couple of his buddies got this bright idea: >>> Since they knew some of the deputies, they also knew where the sheriff's >>> department kept the evidence they seized in such situations. So, they >>> figured they'd wait until things died down a little, and then they'd >>> break >>> into the evidence room and steal the plants that were seized. >>> >>> Well, they did. And, apparently, the plants were fairly large, because >>> they >>> had to drag them from the evidence room to the motel room they'd rented >>> for >>> the operation, which was maybe a couple-hundred yards from the evidence >>> room >>> they'd broken into. We know this because, upon discovering the break-in, >>> the sheriff's deputies followed the trail of fallen marijuana leaves all >>> the >>> way to the hotel room and busted them the next morning. >>> >>> True story. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
