Sometimes, it takes a smart idea to get rid of naughty teenagers off your property.

What would you do if you were a victim of a mailbox-hitting-baseball-bat gang?

The neighbor of this OP had enough, so he pulled off a plan that would surely teach these punks a lesson!

Read the full story below.

Revenge for the mailbox

There was a spike of petty vandalism going on along my road.

I live in the rural bit of town and after ~10 at night, it’s abandoned, and easy to flee from, which made it an ideal target.

Mostly, it was teenagers going down the road, and hitting mailboxes with a baseball bat. Every week.

My neighbor decided he was sick of it.

OP’s neighbor had a genius plan.

Under the guise of ‘reinforcing’ the post, he installed a metal pole between his mailbox and his newspaperbox.

It was hard to see during the day, much less detectable at night, while doing 60 down a country road.

It was also planted well into the ground with a little concrete for good measure.

He heard a loud scream!

He said he saw it happen from his porch one night.

The car was barreling down the road, and mailboxes were flying off whenever it passed them.

Then the car got to his, and there was a scream as it kept driving.

His mailbox was the only one standing.

The next day, you could see the ruined mailboxes up until his. At his, there were two halves of a wooden baseball bat.

He said he actually felt kind of bad for the idiot, as he thought they would be cruising down the road, and it would just give them a jolt.

But the kind of people who go down the road smashing mailboxes are not the kind to drive slow, with your friend hanging out the window, swinging a bat (that would require intelligence).

God knows what it did to that jerk’s arm.

It was pretty satisfying, wasn’t it? Let’s see what other people have to say.

This user thinks it was hilarious.

This one shares a similar experience.

This one’s not funny at all!

Another sad and similar incident.

Mailbox karma hits hard.

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