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- | Fun! with mailboxes |
- | Written by The Nightfly |
- | March 26, 1986 |
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- Tired of cruising the streets looking for fun when nothing seems to be
- happening? Bored of hanging around Dairy Queen at 3 AM? Well, fear not
- because here is a fun and deceptively challenging activity that is sure
- to releive those late-night doldrums. Yeah, you got it: smashing mailboxes
- (and other hapless roadside fixtures). Before you start you'll need to make
- a trip to your basement or garage to get the proper equipment, which include:
-
- - Crowbar
- - Sledgehammer
- - Pickaxe
- - A segment of board big enough to cover the front bumper of your car
- - Twine and/or rope
- - Explosives (i.e. M-80's, M-100's, etc.)
- - Spray paint
-
- Also, it makes for a better time if you can get ahold of some beer,
- liquor, marijuana, etc. Just make sure one person stays sober to drive.
-
- So. Now you are standing out in your driveway at some wee hour of the
- morning with your car full of demoliton equipment. Now what? Well, first you
- must put some protection on your front bumper, which unprotected tends to
- get rather scuffed up. Tie a length of board securely to the front bumper with
- rope or twine, making sure that the board is long enough to protect the entire
- bumper, but be careful that it does not obscure the headlights. The board
- should be as thick as possible, and you might consider putting some padding
- between it and the bumper, just in case it breaks. Now you are set to roll!
- (Look out, though. Cops tend to be rather suspicious of cars driving around
- looking like tanks, especially if they have intoxicated, armed teenagers
- hanging out of the windows. You could get in serious trouble for any of the
- actions I am about to describe, so be wary of the men in blue).
-
- The first step is to select the mailboxes you want to crush. Generally,
- these fall into two categories: boxes belonging to enemies/losers, and
- boxes selected simply at random. So drive around until you find a good,
- dark, secluded road (perhaps in an exclusive section of town). Look for
- houses with no lights on, and with neighboring houses that are either also
- asleep or else a safe distance away. Once you are sure there are no witnesses,
- choose your method of destruction:
-
- - By crowbar: this is generally the most difficlut method. For maximum
- effectiveness, try an uppercut, which is the best for completely
- removing the box from its post. Or, you can try the plain old
- baseball-style swing, straight from the side, which has a smaller
- chance of actually dismembering the box, but which will bend the post
- over partway, put a good crease in the side of the box, and bend it,
- causing it to appear comically lopsided.
- - By sledgehammer: there is really only one thing you can do with a
- sledgehammer: bring it down on the top of the box with all yer might.
- This will, quite simply, crush it. If you really lean into it and hit
- it lots of times, you might be able to squash it into a pankake.
- This could take more than a few seconds, though, so watch the house
- carefully. The sound of a mailbox being smashed wakes people up
- easily and fast.
- - By pickaxe: the method here is similar to using a sledgehammer, but
- the effect will be different in that the mailbox will definetly be
- unrepairable, since it will have several holes in it (as many as you
- wish to make). It's also not quite as loud, but that doesn't mean
- much.
- - Explosives: if you need to be told what to do with these, what are you
- doing reading this file? Be sure you put a long fuse on it, though;
- you don't want any mailbox fragments hitting your car, do you?
- - Spray paint: mailboxes make a good billboard for you to announce your
- opinion of their owners on, but there is not much room. You might be
- forced to write in the "margins" (i.e. the sidewalk, street, fence,
- etc.)
- - Your car: yes, this is the reason you put that board on the front of
- the car. Try knocking the box down, then running it over (as many
- times as you feel necessary).
-
- O.K., so now you've knocked down 10 or 20 mailboxes, and it is starting to
- wear a little thin. So, you progress to the next step: CAPTURING mailboxes.
- Actually, you should be doing this at the same time you are knocking them down.
- Whenever you acrually knock on off its post, grab it and throw it in the back
- seat. When you grow tired of knocking them down, or the back seat and trunk
- become full, you can start disposing of the collected boxes. Try securing
- several of them to your back bumper, then speeding down the highway until
- they fall off. Throw a few at things you don't like. If someone in another
- car on the highway flips you off, or otherwise rubs you the wrong way,
- quickly speed ahead of them and throw mailboxes at them; it'll dent up
- their car a little, and might even break a window. Be sure to get away fast,
- because if they are real asswipes they will take your liscnse number and
- report you to the cops. Back off the highway, try speeding down country roads
- and throwing them at trees, phone poles, parked cars, etc. Make sure no one
- is behind you.
-
- Now it's almost 3am, and your hands are starting to ache from throwing
- all those mailboxes around. So dump all those remaining boxes in someone's
- yard, and head off to begin the next step: no-holds-barred destruction of
- roadside fixtures. See if you can bust up a parking meter so bad that the
- coins come out. Use the crowbar to pry "fortress phones" off the wall, then
- take them to a vacant lot or a parking lot and smash them inside out. If there
- is really >nobody< out on the streets, try taking a pickaxe and sledgehammer
- to one of those boxes that control traffic lights. Be very careful doing that,
- though, because those things have electricity in them. You should be alright
- if you use tools with wooden handles, though. Also, really be sure there is
- no one around because if the cops catch you doing that they'll definetly
- take you down to the station.
-
- Well, that's about all I can think of right now, but remeber, these are
- only guidelines to give you ideas. Feel free to experiment; anything is fair
- game. And keep the risks in mind; some of my freinds got busted for smashing
- boxes recently, cuz some "good citizen" got their liscense number and reported
- them. But don't worry too much; have a good time. Happy smashing!
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