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We woke up to this the other morning.
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Our mailbox used to live there.
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But the mailbox was on the driveway.
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Along with pieces and parts of our busted post.
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My husband called the sheriffs department, sure that nefarious vandals with sledgehammers were responsible.
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Of course, a long conversation took place once the officer arrived …
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Complete with a visit to the man cave/Barn Mahal before the investigation started.
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But it soon became clear my husband’s club wielding delinquent theory was incorrect.
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And the simpler explanation of a drunken, speeding driver was to blame.
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The evidence… a broken side mirror… was found in our ditch.
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The fact that your husband got to show off the man cave is the only positive in this story. Malicious vandal, drunken driver, or irresponsible and cowardly distracted driver – any of those are very bad indeed. I must know: what did your mail deliverer say/think/do? How did (s)he adapt?
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The mail comes the same time every day so I did some gardening that afternoon and was standing with my hand out when they pulled up.
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This triggers me. The DUI shit kills people and damages property and yet, it keeps happening… Will you fix the mailbox or get something new?
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I want new.
The husband wants to fix this one.
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A total pain, but at least it was only a mailbox.
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True.
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This us to happen a lot before I moved into the big wicked city, the community mailboxes were introduced in the late 90’s. My neighborhood is older, it was established in the late 60’s so my mailbox is the inside of my property line and fenced in. But my son’s neighborhood was built in 2010’s and he has a community mail box that he has to walk a block and a half to get his mail because of crap like this. So, why exactly did the Hubs need to show the Sherriff his Man Cave? lol
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The husband shows the man cave to pretty much everyone. Men are always jealous, he likes that.
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A wrought iron or stainless steel post for the mailbox will break a hammer-wielding miscreant’s arm or do a lot more damage to a drunk driver’s car.
Win-win either way…
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Now, all they have to do is dust the mirror for fingerprints and swab for DNA, and you might get the bastard! I’m sure they are on it! 🙂
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Yeah…. no.
The mirror went in our trash.
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We’ve had that happen four times! Only once was a speeding drunk driver. He was a prominent doctor and so paid all the damages. The other times the culprit never came forward. It’s frustrating. I’m amazed the police are on the case!
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He filed a report.
I’m sure nothing will come of it…
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You never know – I’m sure they want to get that driver off the road.
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Wow. That’s kind of scary! Years ago my brother’s mailbox kept getting knocked off or shot! It turns out someone stole his briefcase out of his car and it happened to have a very large check in it. It turned the stolen briefcase into a felony and jail time. The guy’s buddies weren’t happy with my brother for pressing charges.
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My husband’s first thought was he had angered someone at the yard sale talking politics. I’m glad that wasn’t the case, the world is angry enough.
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👍🏼
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Sorry about the mailbox, I guess it’s almost better that it wasn’t vandals. I love that your husband showed him the cave 😉
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He’s very proud of his cave…
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Weird that we both did a post with the exact same title yesterday! lol
Sorry about your mailbox.
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I noticed that.
Same title, different kinds of boom.
😉
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LOL Yes! Good Morning! I see you’re an early riser too!
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I’m up at 5 every morning.
Not that I particularly want to be, but there it is…
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😝😝🤣🤣
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Admit it: for a brief moment, you thought the red squirrel might be responsible…
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Ha!
It did cross my mind…
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Oh my goodness. Your poor mailbox!
At our old house, where our mailbox was located, there was a small swerve into the road at our driveway, and I can’t tell you how many mailbox casualties we had over 27 years. Thirteen? Fifteen? It’s like people were not even looking, and missed the curve.
Looks like another adventure for you two!
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We’ve been here 22 years and this is our first casualty. Guess our luck ran out…
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