Mailbox Mayhem

My neighbor called me this morning to let me know that our mailbox had been bombed. Yup, bombed...Can you believe it? He thought he heard a big boom at around 11 pm the night before and this morning when he went to retrieve his newspaper, he noticed that our mailbox had been the target. Daryl found an empty 1 liter pop bottle in the street and thought someone had just littered, so since it was garbage day, he just put the bottle in the trash can. It turn out that the bottle was the bomb.

The back of our mailbox was blown off but the rest remained intact. The entire box was probably 1 1/2 times it's normal size. It was weird. I think it was just a random act, but who knows. Daryl said there may be a couple of people at work that could be mad at him, but he thinks they wouldn't bomb the mailbox (they might slash his truck tires though....hmmmm). We called the police just to file a report, but since it was a mailbox incident, they sent an officer out to investigate. Our mail carrier came to the door today with our mail and was shocked to see our mailbox. She was so cute. She said that the post office x-rays everything and that it should not have been anything she put in there. I told here it was done late at night, probably mischievous kids, but who knows. We have since put up a new mail box. I hope this one will last. We shall find out.

And I thought our neighborhood was safe.....Beware. These things can happen anywhere.