Originally Posted by supton
You have to be special sort to drive across someone's lawn like that.
Reminds me of a story that my high school our physics teacher told us. When he was a kid, he had a friend who had a pickup who decided that running over mailboxes on a Saturday night was "fun". He did it to one guy's box. Guy replaced the box and whatever it was mounted on. It got run over a second time. This time the guy decided to sink a 4" pipe into concrete. Stopped the pickup dead this time. And that was the end of the problem.
Growing up, we lived in the Chicago suburbs - Naperville, specifically - and our house was at at "Y" intersection.. that is to say, a feeder road terminating at the curve of another road. Lazy/drunk/bad drivers would sometimes take the turn too wide, too fast, or watever, and our mailbox got hit quite a few times. One such time, my dad had had enough, so we bought a half-barrel, filled the bottom 2/3 with concrete with the mailbox post down the center, and topped with a little soil and planted a few petunias. Everyone just thought it was a pretty planter.. until the first idiot went wide. Didn't quite stop the car dead, but came close. It certainly was not driving away under its own power.