Mailbox baseball
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Mailbox baseball or mailboxing is the act of using a baseball bat or other objects to knock over, dent, or smash roadside mailboxes by a passenger in a car. It can be played either as a game, with score kept in a manner similar to baseball, or played simply for aimless fun. In either case it is an act of vandalism and destruction of other peoples' property.
Mailbox baseball is depicted in several films and television shows such as Stand by Me, The Benchwarmers, Dazed and Confused, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The X-Files. There is also a popular tale of revenge on mailbox baseballers.
Damaging, destroying or tampering with mail boxes or with the US mail is a federal crime, punishable by a fine and/or up to three years of imprisonment.[1]
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- ^ "Cornell University Law School". http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001705----000-.html. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
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