[TheForge] Crush proof mailbox

[GRAF]

Why not combine the Rubber tire or steel plate ideas with a swung away 
design?
As long as the combined inertias of the bat and the box don't equal 
crush point you are golden.

Mike Graf

PlumDon at aol.com wrote:
> CSI/ Las Vegas  had an episode not that long ago where kids in  a car were
> killed while "baseball batting" mailboxes.  
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> Thanks  for all your responses. They have made me very cautious and concerned 
> about  doing anything that would open me to any financial liability. The way 
> things  stand now a suit from a hangnail could put me under. 
> But there must be a way  to make something that would just dance in the wind 
> when batted. My neighbor and  I (blonde, divorcee) share a common driveway. 
> I'm just gonna hang a bag on a  sheppards hook for the moment until I decide 
> what to do. 
>
> But if anyone  has any thoughts re 'bounce and return' rather than an 
> immovable object, I would  be delighted to hear them. (read them)
>
> Don Plummer
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