HT/ Petrus.
This takes me back.
I used to tow along with my dad in the summertime when he was a foreman for various “gangs” working the city’s highways.
He went to one site to check out how things were going and the crew told him every morning like clockwork some idiot would speed down the road clipping all the work cones and sending them flying, delaying their work by a half hour.
My dad asked if he’d been there yet. They said he was due in about 15 minutes.
My said, “here’s how you stop that.”
He took a 4 foot gorilla bar and spiked it into the asphalt and covered it with a road cone.
He said, “keep away from that cone, this could get messy.”
Sure enough, the a$$hole came careening down the highway, honking his horn and clipping all the cones. He wasn’t happy when he ran into the steel bar. The idiot actually stopped and got out and was complaining about his dented bumper.
That’s when one of the gang, a guy they called “Tiny,” got up out of the hole he was in, and continued to go up, and up, and up, to see what the guy’s problem was.
Turns out he didn’t have a problem after all. And the cones stayed intact after that.
I filled up a garbage can with gravel for the same reason. We stopped having garbage cans run over after that.
We used to have problems with drunkards running over our mailbox on purpose. It happend at least annually. Finally, my dad reinforced his mailbox post with a truck axle and wheel. He bolted the wheel to the axle hub and buried it after surrounding it with concrete. The axle stuck up a few feet. When the dumbass drunkards tried to run over it again the wheel tilted up under the car and ripped the oil pan wide open. They made it about a mile down the road before the engine locked up. That was the last time we lost a mail box.
I love stories like this, except when the guy who put baby shit in his stolen lunch sandwich either got fired or had charges made by the thief, can’t remember which now. I’d be afraid doing something like the snowman could get you sued by some weasel tapeworm lawyer who says you set up an attractive nuisance, or a trap, or some BS.
The feel good story of the day….so far.
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Wonderful! I hope Frosty made a mess of the front end of that truck!
Too back there wasn’t a camera to “capture the precious moment.” …Lady in Red
Had an area in our town with lots of trees and in the fall they would take all their leaves to the curb/gutter to await pick up. We used to like driving our cars through the leaves blasting them everywhere. One day as we were readying to slam a pile, a little smiling head popped up out of the pile. Never entertained the thought of hitting anything in the roadway since.
Grool, you read my mind. Was wondering along those lines, like the burglar who eats food from their victims’ fridge, gets food poisoning and then sues the homeowners.
We built a snowman around a fire hydrant on the corner just across the street from my house during the Winter of 1968-69 when we had at least 6 ft. of snow on the ground most of the that Winter. We wanted to see if someone would try and knock it over, some knucklehead in the neighborhood did and hurt their foot doing it. My brothers and I and a bunch of the neighborhood boys thought that was funny as hell and no one finked or confessed to building that snowman ever.
I remember a cartoon with a punk kicking over the kids snowman army, right up until he kicked the one built over a fire hydrant – the end.
Had to be a Demonrat, they hate all happiness, a huge white privileged monument just had to go…now that’s social justice.
Love this thread! Good times. Loved to see a video of fails with Bruce Dickinson (Christopher Walken) ‘More Karma!’
I had a co-worker whose father lived down the road from a high school and when school would let out, his 20 gallon metal garbage can would often get smashed by one of the students on their way home. After several cans were destroyed, he bought a brand new one and placed it by the road and filled it with 20 gallons of scrap paint he acquired from a local paint store. He sat in his living room and watched as a pick-up came down the road after school let out and it veered into the can. The explosion of paint completely covered the truck and he called the cops. They had no problem finding the culprit.
Had no idea people drove cars through snowmen. Where I live we have those deep ditches bordering all the roads because we have monsoons.
Deep as in 3 feet or so.
So no, never seen a car blast through a snowman.
Seen plenty of dumbasses stick their cars in those ditches though.
Hambone, Thanks!
Bought my Gran-pappy’s (hoarder) house.
2 birds with 1 stone!
Sincere regards,,
Different Tim – Thanks for swerving.
Back in 87 or so….We were out in a Buddy’s Monster Blazer (44″ Tires)
And We was a drinkin and carrying on, when We spotted this HUGE
Snowman out in a Field….So We ran that Sucker over
The Freakin Head came straight through the Windshield after sliding
up the Hood….Landed in Our laps amongst the shattered glass…
We went back to His Shop and a put another Windshield in…and
avoided Snowmen after that…I think most of those Guys are dead
or in Prison…
(This was in Illinois…So most of the Snowmen were Communists)
I had to drive into town today. Looked reeaal hard at the rural mailboxes in my area.
You country people are bastards. It’s true. Half those damn mailboxes are on metal poles sunk into concrete. One of em’ even had horizontal crossbars welded on so if you hit the pole your radiator gets punctured.
Wow.
I bought a load, 10 yards, of cedar shavings and they ran out of bulk, so they delivered bales wrapped in shrink wrap and neatly stacked in in front of my house. I heard a crash at ~ 3AM. A drunk tried to knock it to pieces with his dad’s brand new pickup. Totaled the truck and sent three kids to the hospital and didn’t even tear a single bag open.
When I raised dogs I used to split a load with five other guys. It cost about 10 cents on the dollar that way.