# I'm not racist, you are, for bringing it up! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 19, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-racist-you-are-for-bringing-it-up/925986 "2020-11-19T18:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-racist-you-are-for-bringing-it-up/925986/8 "2021-08-29T00:37:00Z")
More evidence of Magiver’s absolute, brutish, numbskull idiocy is on display on this thread about creating a deadly hazard to mailbox vandals, with the bullheaded assertion that laying a deadly trap is fine, so long as it is an “inactive” object, whatever that means. > [@The legality of deterring mailbox baseball](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legality-of-deterring-mailbox-baseball/593646): > > On a recent (rerun) episode of CSI, part of the plot involved a homeowner who, tired of having his mailbox destroyed by teens playing [mailbox baseball,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailbox_baseball) installs a mailbox filled solid with concrete. The result is that the next vandal to strike the mailbox with a bat (from a moving car) suffers severe injuries to his arm and shoulder, and the driver of the car ends up crashing and killing both himself and the injured mailbox hitter. On the show, the homeowner was charged with (IIRC) negligent h… He won’t listen to anyone’s explanation of how liability and intent actually works, of course, just repeating his position. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-racist-you-are-for-bringing-it-up/925986)._