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Consequences for hit-and-run on a snowman (discuss.online)
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[–] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Reminds me of that dude that fashioned a concrete reinforced steel mailbox pole and got sued after paralysing a dude that hit it.

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/homeowner-who-fortified-his-mailbox-after-repeated-vandalism-is-sued-by-driver-who-was-left-paralyzed-after-crashing-into-it.4580112/

Homeowner won though.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Reminder that the word "homeowner" is the only English word with the word "meow" in it (except for all the different derivations of "meow" like "meowing" etc of course).

    Good luck not reading homeowner as ho-meow-ner from now on

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wtf is that article? The first 6 paragraphs literally keep repeating the same info???

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, maybe you'll like one of these better.

    https://www.matassinilaw.com/fortified-mailbox-results-in-personal-injury-lawsuit/

    https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/driver-injured-in-collision-with-fortified-mailbox-cant-sue-owners-top-ohio-court-says

    https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-huron/fortified-mailbox-owners-in-huron-county-not-liable-in-paralyzing-2016-crash

    https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2021/2021-Ohio-4113.pdf

    https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/appeals-court-hears-case-of-man-paralyzed-from-crash-with-reinforced-mailbox/

    https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/previews/0615-16/0615-16.asp

    https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/1124/201057.asp

    https://www.facebook.com/NYDailyNews/posts/a-driver-who-was-paralyzed-after-plowing-into-the-fortified-mailbox-of-an-ohio-h/1015

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0qa3L_oTQ

    https://www.facebook.com/News5Cleveland/videos/driver-sues-huron-co-homeowner-after-fortified-mailbox-causes-truck-to-flip-oh-s/

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Cletus Snay was driving to work in December 2016 when his Ford pick-up truck crashed into Matthew Burr's mailbox after losing traction on black ice.

    What a very American sentence.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Do other nations not have ice or work in December?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    The "Cletus driving a pickup into a mailbox part."

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Agree on the first two, but dumbasses/drunks hitting shit is a global tradition

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I thought roadside mailboxes were mostly an American thing. No? All the places I've lived in Europe had them at the door or in a common area like a lobby.

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