Mailbox Vandalism: Poor Choices, Poor Outcomes! LIVE RIGHT NOW! youtube.com/live/tRGWNxKYf… Across the country, homeowners have quietly found a simple answer to the increasingly common crime of mailbox bashing: fill the box with concrete. When a vandal swings a bat and connects with sixty pounds of hardened cement, physics does the rest. A viral X thread ignited a national argument about property rights, criminal responsibility, and how far an owner can go to protect what is theirs. The moral case for the concrete mailbox is not complicated. The property owner is doing nothing more than reinforcing something he owns. The vandal, by contrast, is committing criminal mischief against that property -- a crime in every state. Any injury that follows flows directly from the criminal's own deliberate act. We do not ordinarily hold property owners responsible for the foreseeable consequences of other people's crimes. If someone breaks their arms swinging a bat at your mailbox from a moving vehicle, that’s on them. Join me for a leisurely and gun walk through the X thread that sparked this debate, and various points and counterpoints, examines the legal landscape around property protection and so-called booby trap statutes, and makes the case that hardening your own property is categorically different from laying a trap designed to injure. That line matters, and understanding where it falls is something every property owner should know. Join me LIVE right after the open-access show as I break it all down. Episode #M1304 youtube.com/live/tRGWNxKYf…

@TheBrancaShow The left loves to side with the destructive people. Every fucking time.

I’m someone who relishes the thought of a vandal getting his comeuppance. However, a concrete-filled mailbox fits the category of a booby trap in the same way that a shotgun on a tripwire does - there is a conceivable outcome of a car that (for whatever reason) swerves off the road and hits the mailbox. A heavy mailbox might come right through the windshield and crush the skull of a driver or passenger in the car, killing someone who had no malicious intent at all (distracted driver, medical emergency, etc.).

@TheBrancaShow Members only, huh? I was gonna give you a view while I drink my coffee. Now I'm gonna mute your account.

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@TheBrancaShow A kid I knew in HS shattered his arm doing just that. After it happened, everyone kinda cooled off on smashing mailboxes.

@TheBrancaShow We had a store that was broken into. We replaced the glass with plexiglass. Next thief was hurt when their bat bounced back into their knee. Cops got them quickly. They couldn’t run.

@TheBrancaShow Mine is made out of quarter inch steel pipe and quarter inch steel. Someone just hit my mailbox with their vehicle and nearly totaled their car. It cost me a bag of cement to put it back up.

@TheBrancaShow Remember that an assault on a mailbox is also an assault on the Constitution

@TheBrancaShow I'm not paying you to watch your opinions. Fuck you.

@TheBrancaShow Absolute faggotry