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    Cretin crackdown, with extra postie protection

    Someone living near us (older teenagers) has got themselves a little dirt squirter or bigger pit bike and has been hacking around our street on it day and night for months. It's annoying but I think of the Dean Street Hosers and think "I don't wanna become those people", "it's a public road", etc, etc, etc.

    It's given me a nice perspective on group rides and why people get irksome at a regular fly-by of bikes, kudos to [MENTION=7149]Stoneville[/MENTION] for keeping the rides changing so people don't get hammered week after week.

    Over the weekend, though, these young fellows have decided to take things to a new low. Two up, this thing loaded to the hilt, no longer on the road but riding across everyone's lawn and doing their darndest to get wheels spinning. So everyone on our side of the street now has this furrow across the front of their place.

    Urge to kill: maxed out. If this has become a regular "thing", I can now empathise with people who run clotheslines across trails/paths/streets where these inconsiderate youths are habitually being a nuisance. Whilst I'm tempted to follow suit, just using razor wire instead of rope, I'm going to settle down a little and I'm thinking of maybe a stinger strip or caltrops across the lawn instead. Because GET ORF MA LORN!

    This obviously causes issues for the motorcycle who is allowed on the lawn, our local postie, unless I move the letterbox to the front of the drive (at the footpath). Are there any rules against doing that? Anyone know about required setbacks? If I get a new letterbox, what should I look for if I want posties to say "Ah, he's got a new letter box and we like him" rather than "Bother, not another one of those @#$(*@#$ things!"?
    "Once upon a time we would obey in public, but in private we would be cynical; today, we announce cynicism, but in private we obey."
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    I believe your letter box has to be on your land, not the councils verge...

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Rich... View Post
      I believe your letter box has to be on your land, not the councils verge...
      5m in or summat.

      I used to like nice height letterboxes (over 80cm off the ground) with a big opening on the left hand side of the driveway.

      Anyway, Inb4 starfish got old hurhurhurhurhur

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      • #4
        So this went from getting razor wire and dynamite to getting a new postbox?

        Disappoint
        Give a man a fire - Keep him warm for a day
        Set a man on fire - Keep him warm for the rest of his life

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        • #5
          So level with the water meter which is about where it is now. That's the rules, fine. What's likely to happen, then, if I put it at the footpath anyway? Fine or just a "Silly person, move your letterbox plzkthx"?

          KevMc - blame Port Arthur and Johnnie Howard, I'd have a belt fed MAC-10 on a camera turret if I could. Rubber bullets, mostly, because safety. But it would work well for the other jerks who walk their dogs and regularly pause on our yard for drop stops.
          "Once upon a time we would obey in public, but in private we would be cynical; today, we announce cynicism, but in private we obey."

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          • #6
            simple solution: no lawn out the front. a few houses round my area have nothing but concrete or paving out the front, usually the asians with 10 cars out the front. after seeing the problems my neighbour has with keeping his sprinklers intact, i'm more than happy with the paving and adventure park/wilderness in my front yard. just gonna have to watch out for the darn trials bike riders now, leaping from obstacle to obstacle
            "I think she's kinda sweet...but she makes her living catching cum in her mouth and i'm sensing that's a problem with you"

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            • #7
              If there was ever a group of scum that's lower than pedophiles, rapists, war criminals and Ninja 250 riders with noisy exhausts, it is people that ride pitbikes in the suburbs.

              Hunt them down. Avenge the suffering that has been inflicted on the ear drums of the innocent.

              FFS, did we not learn anything from Vietnam?

              Remember to dip the spikes in cyanide. Immobilise the fuckers and put My Little Pony and Pokemon tattoos on their forearms and other obvious places.





              Don't forget to develop a suitable network of tunnels, so that you can pop out from nowhere and scream threatening war cries such as, "Centrelink interview tomorrow!" and, "work for the dole starts next week!"

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              My waterbed broke this morning. Oh, I don't have a waterbed. Bugger.

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              • #8
                Do you remember the good old days before the internet?

                when arguments were only entered into by the physically or intellectually able.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Phildo View Post
                  Don't forget to develop a suitable network of tunnels, so that you can pop out from nowhere and scream threatening war cries such as, "Centrelink interview tomorrow!" and, "work for the dole starts next week!"
                  I think I've seen a similar tactic used before.

                  Ahhh, yes...
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                  They observe my perambulations upon my gyroscopically-balanced personal transportation device, and I perceive at my core that they have thus concluded that I am Caucasian, and, while intelligent, I am also somewhat socially inept. - Peculiar Alfred
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                  • #10
                    Yep letterbox within your own property unfortunately. If you look down your street you will get a rough indication based on peoples front fences and letterboxes and such as to what the setback is to where your land begins.

                    I doubt the council would even pick up on it being on their verge, however if Murphy's law kicked in and one of said punks impaled himself on your letterbox and it turns out it was illegally on the councils verge and so on then you're in the shit.

                    I suggest just building a big fuck-off brick letterbox with planters either side and such. You get an awesome letterbox, and the punks have to detour around it, hopefully to the verge.

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                    • #11
                      I still like the caltrops, spike-strip or impaling stakes/rebar in the ground - but obviously need to corral the postie away from them.

                      Maybe a couple of wooden stakes and some danger tape/rope strung between them to help guide the postie purely on the driveway/letterbox - and then all the caltrops, stakes, spike strips, auto-water guns and big round boulders rolling down a gully you can dream of for the pit bike.

                      If you're looking for a bit of a fun project you could set up a trip beam on each end of your lawn that hooks into your reticulation and then once it is tripped the sprinklers go on full bore. (ideally with a hose or similar also lined up) - and maybe set on a timer so that it doesn't get the postie during his usual round? Or alternatively have your retic and water cannon hooked up to a garage remote and just button mash the thing when you hear the bike getting within range?

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                      • #12
                        Acid in the retic. Some excellent suggestions. [MENTION=5732]chief wiggum[/MENTION], sadly, the folks that have done that now have to clean the blackies off their concrete
                        "Once upon a time we would obey in public, but in private we would be cynical; today, we announce cynicism, but in private we obey."

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                        • #13
                          Ring the Police and use the key words Hoon and Wheelie?
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Nero Diablo View Post
                            Ring the Police and use the key words fender eliminator?
                            That should do it.
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                            -Magilla
                            They observe my perambulations upon my gyroscopically-balanced personal transportation device, and I perceive at my core that they have thus concluded that I am Caucasian, and, while intelligent, I am also somewhat socially inept. - Peculiar Alfred
                            Eligible to shadow R & R-E NOW

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                            • #15
                              Request your mail to be diverted for a month whilst you scheme.

                              I suggest some new landscaping, with very loose and uncompacted fill underneath your lawn. Maybe a few soakwells without lids. I mean, it's a home job, you weren't to know any better now were you?

                              Add to this some diabolically placed thorned bushes and loose star pickets from your set-out. Maybe even a comedy of rakes to step on.

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