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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:14:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I will add this, when you put dangerous obstacles in your yard to stop vehicles, you COULD get held civilly or maybe even criminally liable. Criminally would have to be if intent to harm can be proven, civilly would be much easier to prove if the vehicle occupant was injured, or even vehicle damage, due to your stop device. Not a lawyer, not slept at Holiday Inn Express but did have sexual congress with a lying cheating cunt in the past. I thought this idea would come from Mass.... 7ft long 4" square channel. 4ft hole in the ground, concrete, set 4 by and fill it with concrete. string together with 1-1/2 or 2" square. paint it white. stops semi's |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:16:27 PM EST
[#2]
Jersey barrier fence
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:27:05 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Talk to the city/county road department. See if they can put in something, or at least find out what you can do. I was going to suggest a moat  but if the government will put in a safety barricade, that might also shield you from some civil liability. After all, we live in a society where a pool is considered an attractive nuisance, rather than a society that believes a trespasser who drowns shouldn't have been trespassing. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:30:01 PM EST
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Big plywood Sasquatch with glowing red eyes.
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:30:04 PM EST
[#5]
Trees.
Trees always win. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:33:14 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was going to suggest a moat but if the government will put in a safety barricade, that might also shield you from some civil liability. After all, we live in a society where a pool is considered an attractive nuisance, rather than a society that believes a trespasser who drowns shouldn't have been trespassing. Did you see what that slutty pool was wearing? She was asking for it. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:36:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I will add this, when you put dangerous obstacles in your yard to stop vehicles, you COULD get held civilly or maybe even criminally liable. Criminally would have to be if intent to harm can be proven, civilly would be much easier to prove if the vehicle occupant was injured, or even vehicle damage, due to your stop device. Not a lawyer, not slept at Holiday Inn Express but did have sexual congress with a lying cheating cunt in the past. Who gives a god damn FUUUUUUUCK!!!!!! you think the drunk driver’s life (or anyone else’s for that matter) is worth more than his kid’s lives. Get the FUCK out of here! 
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Posted: 9/21/2020 5:39:51 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What is the speed limit on the road? Might be able to petition the county or city for speed bumps if the posted limit is below 30 mph. Otherwise go with the rock wall concept, or concret3 planters. Fuck that. Speed bumps won't do anything but piss off everyone in the neighborhood. The bumps might even make the speeding drunk asshole lose control, causing a crash that might not have happened on a smooth road. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 5:53:34 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Line your yard with trees. A young oak can stop a car no problem. ^^^^^ This I was at the kitchen window and just happened to look up in time to see a 6" maple stop a Pontiac Grand Am going 30-35mph while being piloted by a drunk teenager. It stopped it dead. The tree went halfway through the engine compartment and pushed the engine back up against the firewall. Surprisingly we could not see any marks on the tree after the tow truck winched the car away. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 5:59:22 AM EST
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Me personally, I would like something that wouldn't be destroyed after the first incident. My choice would be a layered defense of boulders and then trees. I would probably also go as far as to put a tree in line with each of the living areas on that side of the house. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:01:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Me personally, I would like something that wouldn't be destroyed after the first incident. My choice would be a layered defense of boulders and then trees. I would probably also go as far as to put a tree in line with each of the living areas on that side of the house. defense in depth what's old is new again |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:01:45 AM EST
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Oak or walnut trees will work but it will take a few years for them to grow up big enough to stop a car. I would sink 2-3 steel poles around each one, and paint them to look like landscaping poles that are supporting the tree.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:08:11 AM EST
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:11:50 AM EST
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I’ll go against the grain and recommend a ramp that launches the car over the house.
Many more style points involved. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:13:56 AM EST
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:14:50 AM EST
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2 foot tall planters, build 2 foot thick as long as needed filled with dirt.
Put some flowers in it and built in watering. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:19:03 AM EST
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I had a number of bollards installed around a facility. They were made out of 8” schedule 80 pipe with decorative pieces added. The bollards were placed 4’ on center in concrete filled 2’ diameter holes 5’ deep with #5 rebar in a circular cage. Over the years several cars plowed into them. All we did was touch up the paint.
Given your situation, I would go with cable retention system attached to an iron fence. You see these rention systems in the center divider of the interstate highways in rural counties. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:19:07 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Trees. Trees always win. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:20:16 AM EST
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5 4'' steel posts sunk 3 foot into the ground in concrete and several steel ''decorative'' chains ran thru welded loops. My 4'' steel mailbox post wiped out a [I believe] a F250 or 350 Ford DD at about 2 AM one morning. From the fluids it left [antifreeze, ATF] and all the parts lying around, I figure it did many thousands in damage and while he did get away, he didn't get past the post and into the yard. Kinda hoping it ate the transmission also as it was dumping ATF at a nice steady stream rate as it took off.
Put some kind of climbing ivy on the posts and chain so it ''looks decorative.'' |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:20:24 AM EST
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You don't have project cars OP? A couple decorative old pickups would do the job.
 Attached Fileits a planter! |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:21:26 AM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ^^^^^ This I was at the kitchen window and just happened to look up in time to see a 6" maple stop a Pontiac Grand Am going 30-35mph while being piloted by a drunk teenager. It stopped it dead. The tree went halfway through the engine compartment and pushed the engine back up against the firewall. Surprisingly we could not see any marks on the tree after the tow truck winched the car away. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:35:33 AM EST
[#22]
Op, do dragons teeth for the corner/corners, but make them look like pyramids with the all seeing eye on them.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:37:35 AM EST
[#23]
Railroad ties sunk 4 foot.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:39:58 AM EST
[#24]
If you like Colonial decor.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:40:50 AM EST
[#25]
Have you considered an ornamental tank?
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:43:58 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ^^^^^ This I was at the kitchen window and just happened to look up in time to see a 6" maple stop a Pontiac Grand Am going 30-35mph while being piloted by a drunk teenager. It stopped it dead. The tree went halfway through the engine compartment and pushed the engine back up against the firewall. Surprisingly we could not see any marks on the tree after the tow truck winched the car away. A car going 35mph will snap a telephone pole. A 6" maple has no chance....so something ain't adding up. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:46:41 AM EST
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M21 AT mines will probably work
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:48:13 AM EST
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I have a bad curve on a paved country road in front of my house and people drive way too fast for it. Since I have lived there, there have been two rollovers which didn't hurt the drivers, one that straightened out the curve and hit a pine tree at the corner of my property and numerous that have run off the road. The one that hit the pine tree died. Turns out he was the step-grandson of my cousin. I have six large pine trees that line my yard next to the road that I had thought about cutting years ago until I was looking at them one day from the end of the yard and realized how good of a natural barrier they would be if someone were to miss the curve and plow into my yard. Going into the curve it was a wall of trees. Having small children at the time, it was a no brainer to keep them from getting hit. One of our rules from them was there was to be no playing between the trees and the road.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:49:40 AM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A car going 35mph will snap a telephone pole. A 6" maple has no chance....so something ain't adding up. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: ^^^^^ This I was at the kitchen window and just happened to look up in time to see a 6" maple stop a Pontiac Grand Am going 30-35mph while being piloted by a drunk teenager. It stopped it dead. The tree went halfway through the engine compartment and pushed the engine back up against the firewall. Surprisingly we could not see any marks on the tree after the tow truck winched the car away. A car going 35mph will snap a telephone pole. A 6" maple has no chance....so something ain't adding up. You'd be surprised at what a little 6'' maple tree will stop. Since it has some give, it doesn't break like a old utility pole will. Sure it can break but it will stop the car. [As do most utility poles] |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:50:37 AM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boulders lots of boulders Get one extra big and bury half of it. Or 3 wave guard rail like you see on the highway to keep traffic out of the oncoming lanes. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:53:14 AM EST
[#31]
raised flower bed with pavers.
Looks good and will do the job (especially if you add some concrete inside to hold the pavers in place and strengthen it). Also doesn't look like something built with a mind towards damaging a crashing car, which could deter ambulance chaser lawsuits. Also should add some privacy to your front yard, which seems needed as your neighbors behind the house look irritatingly close something like this, maybe not quite as fat.  What you need is mass, the pavers provide structure and the earth inside is the mass. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:57:20 AM EST
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Be careful what you put in the easement if it technically isn’t your property.
You don’t want to be sued if someone crashes and gets hurt or maimed due to you trying to protect your kids. Yes, I am being somewhat sarcastic but i have heard it happening. Some areas don’t allow permanent fixed mailboxes just for this reason. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:58:27 AM EST
[#33]
Growing up guy at the end of our street had a monesuleum sized brick and concrete mailbox. It could have easily held a body and a half. I dont know how many times it got hit but my brother hit it twice one year. Both times the mailbox won.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:59:17 AM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I will add this, when you put dangerous obstacles in your yard to stop vehicles, you COULD get held civilly or maybe even criminally liable. Criminally would have to be if intent to harm can be proven, civilly would be much easier to prove if the vehicle occupant was injured, or even vehicle damage, due to your stop device. Not a lawyer, not slept at Holiday Inn Express but did have sexual congress with a lying cheating cunt in the past.  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:02:53 AM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You can get these for under $50 plain. They even have textured ones to look like a rock wall. Bin blocks/mafia blocks https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/174533/IMG_1493_JPG-1600862.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/174533/IMG_1494_JPG-1600865.JPG Its actually my dream to have a house with a 10’ wall built around it using those |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:06:24 AM EST
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:18:46 AM EST
[#37]
I am an insurance adjuster and have seen a huge uptick of people driving into homes. I mean from 2 year to 2 a week. Many are far less likely to be hit than yours OP. Move or at least get some huge borders and maybe hide some bollards in the shrubbery around the house.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:20:18 AM EST
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OP look up the GSA schedules on vehicle barriers. It will literally give you the dimensions, materials, etc. you need to stop various levels of vehicles....by speed and weight. There are tested and verified plans for everything from steel bollards to concrete decorative planters and curbing. They will give you an idea of what you need and make it pretty easy to do DIY something very close.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:22:02 AM EST
[#39]
Limestone “decorative” blocks.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:24:52 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This thread is amazingly demonstrating that it seems like every town has a house built in a terrible spot. I kind of want to blame the bad drivers but at a certain point you have to blame the home builders and street planners.  Many Home lots were laid out in horse and buggy days. Less kinetic energy and it is rare that both horse and drover are simultaneously drunk. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:25:44 AM EST
[#41]
Concrete bollards and then plant bushes in front of them.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:31:25 AM EST
[#42]
Moat, or build a big enough ramp that the car will jump over your house entirely.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:34:32 AM EST
[#43]
Get the city to dig out a big ass ditch in the easement, then slap some bollards or trees on your side of it. Boom. Cheap and effective abatis.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:35:11 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Make some large caltrops from sections of 8 inch I beam. It adds a certain architectural flair as well. i really like you. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:36:19 AM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: raised flower bed with pavers. Looks good and will do the job (especially if you add some concrete inside to hold the pavers in place and strengthen it). Also doesn't look like something built with a mind towards damaging a crashing car, which could deter ambulance chaser lawsuits. Also should add some privacy to your front yard, which seems needed as your neighbors behind the house look irritatingly close something like this, maybe not quite as fat. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/fe/de/58fede70dc864e3a147a34ee3cd3f6fa.jpg What you need is mass, the pavers provide structure and the earth inside is the mass. This is very practical and probably economical. The width is key to stopping penetration. Also, height dimension must be enough so it doesn't act like a ramp. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:36:53 AM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boulders. No expense is too much for your two young kids. |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:37:05 AM EST
[#47]
You can even put flower pots on top of them to make them look pretty
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Posted: 9/21/2020 7:42:35 AM EST
[#48]
Pine trees seem to work really well around here.
You can get decorative fences that have bollards for the uprights.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 8:00:32 AM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Boulders lots of boulders this^^^ there's a fire station in Austin that did just that with 3' x 5' square cut boulders; car almost hit their sleeping area once concrete planters would lessen your liability when some drunk hits them & their family sues for creating a hazard for those that don't like driving on the public road after one too many |
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Posted: 9/21/2020 8:03:25 AM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck that. Speed bumps won't do anything but piss off everyone in the neighborhood. The bumps might even make the speeding drunk asshole lose control, causing a crash that might not have happened on a smooth road. EMS & FD don't like speed bumps, just saying; getting sued for protecting your property can occur for ANY reason and is limited only by the number of sleazebag lawyers in the area. |
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