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Ed_McCarron:
I think 'mailbox' is the key.

The FHWA seems to say that mailboxes near streets must either be 'breakaway' or 'so damn solid that they can't penetrate the passenger compartment of the vehicle'.

So it either breaks, or stops the car.  I'm guessing your buddies was somewhere in the middle?  Sounds like someone driving head on at it would have impaled the vehicle on the extending post, and thats a no-no.

Sounds like Chad's bollocks would be considered a guardrail, or traffic delineator, and wouldn't fall under the same guidelines.

Man, its all in the fine print.

shmokes:
I still see a difference.  Certainly you would not be liable if you had simply put a heavy-duty gate up, even though its only purpose is to keep people from driving onto the driveway, and if the motorcycle crashed into it the guy would still be badly injured.  Additionally, a driveway is at least meant to be driven on.  If you have kids that play in your yard, you have a pretty legitimate reason, besides vengeance, for keeping vehicles from driving out of control onto your lawn.  This is especially the case if there is a history of vehicles having a tendency to drive onto your lawn.

SithMaster:
Concerning killing an intruder in your home, place of business, what have you you can just hide the body.  If someone breaks into your home with a gun or knife you would think they would want to kill any witnesses.  you kill them and the burglars family tries to sue you, to hell with them.

the mailbox thing is stupid and i would wonder how the driver whose axle broke could get away with it.  sounds like if they drove through your house and killed children they could sue, and win, for having their tires ruined.  id try and get even for having to pay.

a camera might work to get the plate numbers if youre asleep or not around.  The wall can be considered a property divider and then you can pretty it up.

ChadTower:

Damn, lost my post in a browser refresh.

Anyway, the heavy gate serves an obvious purpose, so it fits the criteria given by the Sergeant.

This is a pic from 2003 of the driveway I mentioned.  It's the only pic I could find of the bushes when they're not bare, but from a different section of yard.  The damaged bushes are only a slightly different species.

BTW, I have to dig that whole driveway spot up again this summer and add more soil... it settled more than anticipated and now there is a driveway shaped depression there.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 20, 2007, 03:08:35 pm ---it settled more than anticipated and now there is a driveway shaped depression there.

--- End quote ---

Sprinkle on some Zoloft.  It'll be right as rain.

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