[geeks] oh no, not again.

[wa2egp at att.net]

> the pipes remind me of a story a friend told me years ago.  he used to
> drive a snow plow for one of the little new hampshire towns to make a
> little money on the side.  the plowing crew chief - who may have been
> the dpw head - had a running feud with the fire chief, and used to
> take the chief's mailbox out with his wing plow every chance he got,
> by way of petty spite.
> 
> one year, the fire chief fixed him.  he got a length of 5" sched 160
> sewer pipe and planted it deep in the ground, in a yard of concrete
> and filled with concrete.  then he boxed it in with boards so that it
> looked like a 6x6 post.  he put his box on top of that.
> 
> next winter, in the middle of the first snowstorm, the fire chief
> heard a tremendous WHANG!!! and looked out his window to see the plow
> truck - a ten-wheeler iirc - sitting crossways in the road.
> 
> no further assaults were made on the mailbox.

I would love to have seen a video on that.  Heck, he could have won America's Funny Videos!