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So, I saw the news feed that said Lindsey Graham had died, and i thought " Don't they mean Mitch McConnell?" Then they Verified that it was, in fact, Lindsey. My next thought was "These things usually happen in threes, right? Who's next?"
Should you, dear reader, put concealed concrete in your mailbox, so that if someone is going around smashing mailboxes, hitting it breaks his arm?
This debate is rolling on Twitter. Right-wingers argue that steal fortified mailboxes will teach mailbox smashers not to smash mailboxes. More lib/left users argue that the potential damage to the arm is disproportionate to the crime.
I think the answer here is pretty straightforward: ninja-armbreaker mailboxes are for when the rate of mailbox attacks is high (because the state isn't doing its job), and not for when mailbox attack rates are low.
When mailbox attacks are low, it's potential "teachable moment" on a mailbox by mailbox basis, and when smash rates are high either no one's learning anything or there are roving gangs of mailbox raiders.
I thought that there had been a court case about a very similar circumstance, and a search turned up the case of Snay v. Burr (2021, Ohio).
The mailbox in question had been repeatedly vandalized, so the owner rebuilt the mailbox with an eight-inch pipe set three feet deep in concrete. An innocent party's vehicle departed the roadway, collided with the mailbox, and flipped. The vehicle's sole occupant was permanently paralyzed below the neck, and sued, saying that the proximate cause of his injury was not his loss of control of the vehicle and subsequent departure from the roadway, but the abnormally-strong mailbox.
Writing for the Court majority, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor stated the Court has repeatedly ruled political subdivisions, landowners, and others owe a duty of care to drivers if they create hazards that “affect the safety of ordinary travel on the road.” Because Matthew and Diane Burr’s mailbox did not affect the safety of ordinary travel on the regularly traveled portion of Young Road, they are not responsible for the injuries suffered by Cletus Snay, she concluded.
I think that any court would be even less sympathetic to someone who suffered an injury in the course of voluntarily committing a crime.
Personally, I think "a car having an accident might crash into the mailbox" is actually a reasonable justification not to make concrete-fortified mailboxes (stealth or not) the norm.
By comparison, suppose that a man puts a landmine into his house. A firefighter could end up entering, and get blown up by the landmine. Life is full of unexpected outcomes.
From this brief summary, I think that much of the moral liability lies with the vandals.
I probably wouldn't, because I don't want to seriously injure someone or get in legal trouble over a mailbox.
Just like I won't put laxatives in my food to deter thieves.
On the other hand, if I block the vandals with concrete fenceposts that are clearly visible - with hivis tape, even - that's a lot more justifiable, though I'm still not certain.
There's alleged limits on how much you can fortify a mail box,
Not sure how strongly enforced the rules are or if they're just guidelines or not, in the before times of 1986 when the movie Stand By Me came out there was a scene where "Mailbox Baseball" was being played and it inspired shenanigans which were made even more exciting because you could still ride in the bed of a pickup truck with no seats or seatbelts.
Homeowners got rightly fed up after a while and there were some broken arms and such as a result of that.
Personal opinion the injury would be very easy to avoid by not trying to destroy someone else's personal property, so it's on you, and no sympathy.
The argument of 'you should not put a reinforced mailbox on your lawn because a person might be injured if they crashed into it' is functionally identical to claiming that one should not put a TREE onto their lawn for the same reason. The result of the activity would be about the same, someone smashing into a fully grown tree with a bat from a moving vehicle is going to be just as injured as someone hitting the reinforced mailbox. The main reason people do not in fact go around attempting to hit trees with bats is because the result would be one of self-harm, and they know it.
The mailbox is a target BECAUSE they assume the act will not result in any negative consequence TO THEMSELVES and as such think they SHOULD be allowed to cause damage with impunity.
And as a last thing? There is no comparison between putting up a reinforced mailbox to putting a mine in your house, because any given mine could kill any given person entering your house, firefighters being only one of many possible situations where you murder someone (or kill yourself) for taking the wrong step.
And the mailbox? Again, the comparison to a tree is far more apt, because the only way it becomes a hazard onto a random passerby is if a situation has already occured that puts them uncontrollably into it's path.
A landmine is a deliberate trap. A mailbox is just a structure.
>The argument of 'you should not put a reinforced mailbox on your lawn because a person might be injured if they crashed into it' is functionally identical to claiming that one should not put a TREE onto their lawn for the same reason.
Trees are typically set further back, but I do get your point to a degree, the mailbox thing is looked at negatively because accidentally hitting one shouldn't be call for a trip to the hospital, so you have to consider that as well.
My guess would be that would be why the USPS has their suggestions or regulations around them at least.
For the record I have no personal issues with a securely placed mailbox, I think it's a good plan.
There was a pick-a-part junkyard I used to frequent near me. They had a standard mailbox on a standard 4X4 post. It was taken out several times over the years. The owner eventually got tired of it, so he got out an old junker car, put that on the front lot in place of the 4X4, and mounted a standard mailbox to the hood, in place of the ornament. His mailbox was not hit again after that.
At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely
technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.
Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.
Free courses on Coursera.
Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison
For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.
When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.
@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-
And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.
Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,
Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu
At this point in time your knuckles have probably reset, so you can pop them again. Give it a try!
I got 8 out of 10
Plus, it's it not "Donner", it's "Donder". Gotta read the original story.
It is my opinion that, based upon her sudden change in behavior, sometime in the last few days Marjorie Taylor Greene was visited by three ghosts...
I'm beginning to think that Trump's "ballroom" is going to be more of a Throneroom. I could be wrong, but I will not be in the least bit surprised if I turn out to be right about this...
Handy gardening tips...
All I can say is, Will Rogers never met Donald Trump...
There are stool softeners and stool hardeners, but no stool lengtheners...
If I start a sentence with "Just the other day..." I could be referring to an event that happened last Thursday, or in 1982. There is no telling.
Give them their shots, based on actual science. And get yours, too.
Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising p
As of Friday morning at 11:00 Pacific Time, I am officially retired! After 34 years, I have stepped down as a science teacher. In a move that is somewhat unusual these days, I spent my entire career, not only in the same district, but at the same school. In this time, I taught nearly 6,000 students. It is my great honor to have been a part of so many lives. I hope they developed an understanding of how science works, and why it is important to us.
Sorry, I realized I put a name in the reply, and I don't want to doxx you! Is this Mr Owen?!
Absutively poselutely! It's been a while. How are you doing?
Hi! Yes, I did. How did you figure that out, I'm super curious!
I remember you mentioning your user name, many, many years ago. You had to be using it somewhere else, because this was long before Tumblr existed. I saw the name here, saw that this person wrote fanfic, and took a stab. I have one of your earliest fics. A Star Trek piece that you and Rebecca wrote it together. I still have the copy you presented to me. I keep it with my yearbooks. You were in my very first science class ever.
