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'Want to play mailbox baseball? Fine it will cost you one window': Mailbox vandals and their vehicle lose to reinforced mailbox

Mailbox baseball—the act of hitting an unsuspecting mailbox with a baseball bat out of a moving vehicle—is a niche yet important part of the mythos of American life, a relic of Americana that lives on in classic coming-of-age stories and family folklore. If you've ever poked and prodded an older member of your family who grew up as a bored child back in the days when kids and teens roamed wildly unaccounted for, you've probably heard some of these stories. Beyond that, if you're living in a rural community, you've probably even heard of these hi-jinx taking place or been on the receiving end of a game of mailbox baseball yourself. 

Occasionally, these stories pop up online, usually in the form of victims of repeated attempts on their mailboxes attempting to reinforce their mail receptacles to unbelievable levels of toughness and indestructibility, to the detriment of the unsuspecting bat wielder and their vehicle. This thread was one such tale and the plethora of other shared stories in the comments made it a great read that was worth sharing.

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Posted by Brad Dickson
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