It seems the local youth have given up their assault on garbage bins. They have turned to letter box destruction. Woke up this morning to find my mailbox busted (they couldnt rip it out cos I stuck it to a solid steel gatepost driven 3 foot in the ground with 40kg of concrete when they broke the cast stand it was on a few years ago) Next door neighbours also had their box ripped off and CD's stolen from their car. I went for a drive and saw 8 others broken. The CD's were found broken in the park down the street.
The thing that pisses me off is that I heard them. I usually get up and check out any noises and usually the are just being loud and abnoxious walking up the street. Last night was about 1:30am, i'd not long turned the lights out and I was too lazy to get up. spewin.
Why the hell are mailboxes so expensive. Wish I was still at BHP, id make one out of 1/4 inch plate and weld it to the post to complete the indestructable mailbox.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
They seem to have so much energy for wrecking stuff, but can't be bothered getting out of bed to do a decent days work.
Solid steel, wired to 240 after midnight = fried vandal!
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or fill it wif fishing hooks and such. so you'll get a catch of the day you then can feed to the sharks..
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some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
sad how quickly we all forget when we were kids and all the silly crazy stupid dangerous and illegal stuff we all did. suppose the dif is now its happening to us, and not us doin it to the generation b4 us. 🥷
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can't say i blew up bins, smashed letter boxes or defaced others property.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
buzzbug wrote:can't say i blew up bins, smashed letter boxes or defaced others property.
Lee.
yep, we had "the bush" which is now some mythical beast controlled by the EPA, local govt, doo gooders and buerocrats because it needs the highest level of protection.
i and all my ilk would all prob be street kids/criminals if we hadnt had a country upbringing where it was clear... we could do wat we wanted in "the bush" as long as it didnt involve the bush fire brigade or the cops. but in town around other people, you had to tow the line...
take "the bush" away and the current guys take theyre risks and do theire antisocial stuff on suburbia....
:alien
I put a brick or two inside of my letter box just to watch them limp after they kick it.
I grew up in the country with 'the bush'
We made cubbies, rode motorbikes, camped out, shot bow 'n' arrows, air rifles, chopped trees down with tomahawks, everything that regenerated quite quickly. As we got older we kissed girls, drank a bit of Stones Green Ginger wine, and smoked.
The same story, no fires and no illegal stuff (well sort of)
If we ever touched anything that belonged to anyone else, the whole town knew about it by the next day, and the shame was the biggest punishment. Kids today have no pride and no shame.
we got a young bloke at work and i make fun of him.. he has all the pent up angst and rebellion that i had but.. he's got everything. he's got no worries about money, no worries about girls, no worries about his future but he still has the young blokey natural need to take ristks and rage against...
as a take off the RATM song killing in the name of... i amp him up with a clenched fist...
saying rage.. rage against.. nothing !!!!
we can only really measure things against our own personal expeiences...
sad to say but we need a bit of hardship to realise when we got things good...
eek. now i sound old....
I like Amazerx idea, you gotta make one out of 1/4" plate and make it look standard..... it would take a shitload of abuse to damage that..... plus you could set a video camera up to see their faces when they smash their favourite baseball bat on your innocent little letterbox...... priceless.
Hi
You need to make a removable mail box, that's what is done by people that live near pubs in Sydney, they take them in every Friday - Sunday night. At least they didint blow them up with bungers.
Steve
i grew up up near bush aswell, lots of mucking around in the river, cubby huts, mountain missions, stones wine, orange and vodka in a cask, nasty cheap port, and on the odd ocasion we would pull out letter boxes and give them new homes up the street. i dont know why, but it seemed like fun back then
When I was a boy.... these are the worst things that me and my mates got up to.
A: snuck in the side door of the pub and did some underage drinking.
B: went into a st kilda strip club underage
C: a mate smashing a few beer bottles when he was drunk and his girl dumped him.
D: speeding
E: one of my mates stole a house reel out of someone front yard. Well it wasnt the innocent 40's and 50's you just shouldnt leave stuff outside.
F: peer group pressure made me suck on a bong once.
G: fill up a coles shopping trolley and then leave it.
H: paying Luke the hose thief 50 cents to pinch hot girls bums at the shoppping centre.
I: Luke would also eat his bus ticket in front of the inspector and drive him nuts.
I have no bush near me. I had computer games. The difference is that the arseholes these days get a kick out of being lawless. The bad things we did were either fun things or perceived fun things. I dont know how destroying property is fun. They just have no respect. Its the same as the burnouts and stuff. You could build a free burnout pad in any suburb but they wouldnt use it because its the lawlwssness they crave and you get more of a kick out of telling your mates to go and look at the donut you did in the main street
Hmm piching girls bums was fun back then but would be seen as more serious harassment today. I guess I WAS one evil little shit. bad karma man.
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akean1 was/is just a naughty naughty boy. haha
twoguns wrote:sad how quickly we all forget when we were kids and all the silly crazy stupid dangerous and illegal stuff we all did. suppose the dif is now its happening to us, and not us doin it to the generation b4 us. 🥷
maybe some of us but a lot im sure did the right thing without resorting to vandalism and horendous crimes like letting tyres down at the bike racks at school..hehe :P
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Helbus wrote:They seem to have so much energy for wrecking stuff, but can't be bothered getting out of bed to do a decent days work.
when ya dad never had a job and ya mum just hangs around home and smokes, you've no idea what work is. besides, the govt gives you all the money you need and anything extra, you just steal. there are heaps of kids who have this experience, they're probably the ones doing this sort of thing.
or worse still, their parents are high or drunk and beat the *^&$ out of them. staying out of home is a survival technique and smashing your letter box means not taking their anger out on another person. i'm not justifying it, but this is real. the world is not a happy place for a lot of kids.
when i was younbg..hell i still am. but we dont destoy other peoples stuff. for starters if my olds found out i'd get an ass kicking but also i just cant fathem the point of doing it, i mean sure the kids might get a rush out of it, but whjen i was younger we use to get a massive rush out of flying down a big hill on a skate board, or going off a bike jump.....
dunno maybe i just missed out on the distructive group satges, and im 19 :duh
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I was a bit of a naughty little tacker but I would have got my ass kicked if I did stuff like that. The kids around my area are like little hodlums. They are out all hours of the day and night, screaming and swearing. Parents don't give a damn. I caught some of them throwing rocks at my cat and I told them off and went to their parents house and told their parents off and one mother asked me what I expected to do and that it wasn't fair that she should be expected to be stuck with her kid 24/7. I was like "hello", he's your kid not mine. Why should I parent him ? If you want me to look after him, then you had better pay me child support ! Haven't seen the kid since ! hehehehe
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i can see what Pete is getting at ,there are families out there that are 4th generation non-workers who live off the government and dont know how to break the cycle 🙁,but i have had my letterbox vandalised years ago and this was by kids in school uniform on there way to sport,still some of the younger generation has no respect for other people or the law😬
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https://www.facebook.com/FlatFourtwoguns wrote:sad how quickly we all forget when we were kids and all the silly crazy stupid dangerous and illegal stuff we all did. suppose the dif is now its happening to us, and not us doin it to the generation b4 us. 🥷
hmmmm.... maybe i am 2g's vintage.....but in the early 70's penny bungars were very cheap. Stuff thos pretty ones.
The difference was we only blew up the letter boxes of people who deserved it :vader
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Bizarre wrote:hmmmm.... maybe i am 2g's vintage.....but in the early 70's penny bungars were very cheap. Stuff thos pretty ones.
The difference was we only blew up the letter boxes of people who deserved it :vader
LOL Bizarre but the Thunders did a better job:P
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I really wasnt THAT bad.........just misguided........
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im 18...have done a lot of bad stuff in my time...dont really want to say as i know i will probably get slaughtered by most of the ol timers on this forum ( no hard feelings just cos ya old) hehe.
but yeah. im attempting to straighten up my act now.
things include many a broken letterbox, bricks + windows = cool noise when drunk or high.
yeah..i will stop before it gets to the bad stuff.
but i udnerstand why we do it as teenagers..its not exactly a good reason but there is a reason.
i mean..when you were REALLY young..and your folks told you not to do something...didnt it become so much more fun when you did it?. cos it did for me anyway.
and yeah. due to the copius amounts of laws and restraints put on society these days people find doing certain things so much more fun with the risk of being caught. young people like myself dont like the idea of living an uneventful life. and unfortunately..most events when young in this day and age require doing SOMETHIGN illegal..cant say im overly destructive anymore. but illegal things are always being done. if we see a construction site we wanna go have a look at. its illegal to go on there .etc
all a load of shit in my opinion.
okay you can all have ya shots at me now if u want. im braced and prepared 🙂
Anthony🥷nn[ Edited on 1-8-2005 by 71superbug ]nn[ Edited on 1-8-2005 by 71superbug ]
No shots required I believe. You are the one who lives with what you have done and you understand right from wrong. Part of having some pride in yourself is being able to say what you have done wrong and admit to it.
oh i feel so relieved*sniffle*..this forum..it has helped me get over one of the biggest problems in life*sniffle sniffle*....realising i need to face up to my problems :cry *puts on bold and beautiful face*
but seriously. yeah i know what ya mean. just seems that some people are very opinionated mate 🙂
Anthony🥷nn[ Edited on 1-8-2005 by 71superbug ]
Hopefully when your car gets broken into, keyed or stolen, or your house and other property is stolen and destroyed you will be able to see the funny side. You'll be able to sit back and laugh, feeling sorry for the poor little buggars who arent allowed to go onto building sites.
Believe me that the sound of broken glass isnt quite as cool, when you are on the other side, struggling to pay the mortgage, and then have to find the money for window replacement. Perhaps you need to go and find out what a letterbox costs, or what replacement glass costs. The fact that you can laugh it off makes things worse. If having to pay out hundreds of dollars per year combatting arseholes like you makes me very opinionated, then so be it.
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We used to have a big paddock in Baulkham Hills and it became the local burnout strip at night, so oneday my father and his mate borrowed a bob cat and dug trenches across the paddock, it didnt take long before the grass grew back, gee it was funny to hear these young guys damage their cars as the did burnouts and ended up in the ditch, many a sunday morning my father would practice his golf on the paddock using these guys cars as target practice...what goes around comes around
i know the prices of letterboxes. hehe it helps having a dad that is a manager at bunnings. lol
but i know what ya mean...and the fact that i can laugh it off in MY opinion is a good thing..no point stressing over what has already been done.
Anthony
