She paid $1000 for a concrete manatee? I'm in the wrong business.

oh, the huge manatee!

/obligatory
//not so huge, really.
///slashy slashy slashy

Yellow Breeches Creek?

Sounds like a book title by I.P. Freely.

Wow, some people are asshats. Leave mailboxes alone, please.

It's no concrete donkey, but it'll have to do.

Massachusetts manatee mailbox missing?

In the seven years she's owned the $1,000 manatee mailbox, people have smashed it with a golf club, dressed it up and tried to set it on fire,

They hate this manatee!

Hector Remarkable: In the seven years she's owned the $1,000 manatee mailbox, people have smashed it with a golf club, dressed it up and tried to set it on fire,

They hate this manatee!
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Who tries to burn concrete?

kevinfra: Hector Remarkable: In the seven years she's owned the $1,000 manatee mailbox, people have smashed it with a golf club, dressed it up and tried to set it on fire,

They hate this manatee!
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Who tries to burn concrete?

Maybe it came alive at night and caused mischief and that was the only way to kill it.

That thing is not made of concrete. Look at the area where its "arm" is broken - it's obviously foam with some sort of coating on it. Probably EIFS synthetic stucco coating, but definitely not solid concrete.

WANT! Closest thing I could find on Amazon. I didn't have a wishlist, so I set one up just for this.

Soooo...do I like, take my top off now or something? Is that how this works? Or do I just talk all hot and stuff?

"Yeahhhh, I got boobs. They're...very boob-like. Yeahhhhhh, my boobs are so awesome. Buy me a mailbox, big boy."

Sweet manatee of Galilee!

kevinfra: Hector Remarkable: In the seven years she's owned the $1,000 manatee mailbox, people have smashed it with a golf club, dressed it up and tried to set it on fire,

They hate this manatee!
[i229.photobucket.com image 259x194]

Who tries to burn concrete?

Idiots.

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Tarmangani: That thing is not made of concrete. Look at the area where its "arm" is broken - it's obviously foam with some sort of coating on it. Probably EIFS synthetic stucco coating, but definitely not solid concrete.

Had it been solid concrete I suppose theft would have been a bit more unlikely.

/Scatter slightly submerged concrete manatees in the waterways and I bet the number of real manatees ht by boats would decline.

Manatees get mail? I wonder if they have their own postal system or they use the USPS.

People are dicks.
Dressing it up is funny, but damaging it is not.
But the people who do that stuff never have anything nice, so they don't know.

Begoggle: People are dicks.
Dressing it up is funny, but damaging it is not.
But the people who do that stuff never have anything nice, so they don't know.

A concrete manatee mailbox could be more accurately described as a "tacky as all f*ck" thing than a "nice" thing.

Here in the Florida Keys, every other mailbox is a manatee mailbox.

Ed Finnerty: Now a velour manatee mailbox. That would be nice.

Indeed. With Elvis hair... and a Rebel Flag cape.

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My 3 foot tall 100 pound Sasquatch (I call him Knobby) likes this thread.

I love this so much. I would put it behind this huge tree in my backyard so it'd look like that grainy video they always show. Did you make it?

here to help: A concrete manatee mailbox could be more accurately described as a "tacky as all f*ck" thing than a "nice" thing.

I agree with both you and Begoggle. My grandmother's sense of taste is best described as 'tacky', but I love her anyways and object to people damaging or stealing her pink flamingos and garden gnomes. At least it makes shopping for her easy - 'OMG, that's tacky!' = perfect for her.

I have no problems with people dressing it up. We have a 'Smokey the Bear' statue in our area that regularly gets dressed up for the holidays, it's funny.

Concrete manatee and dolphin mailboxes were cool/quirky 10 years ago.

Now it's all about the Tube Dudes

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Firethorn: here to help: A concrete manatee mailbox could be more accurately described as a "tacky as all f*ck" thing than a "nice" thing.

I agree with both you and Begoggle. My grandmother's sense of taste is best described as 'tacky', but I love her anyways and object to people damaging or stealing her pink flamingos and garden gnomes. At least it makes shopping for her easy - 'OMG, that's tacky!' = perfect for her.

I have no problems with people dressing it up. We have a 'Smokey the Bear' statue in our area that regularly gets dressed up for the holidays, it's funny.

While I agree destruction of private property (especially of the elderly) is seriously uncool I'm thinking these folks did something to draw the ire of local hooligans.

Then again... some people are just dicks. Bored, leaky, dicks.

Keys dude: Here in the Florida Keys, every other mailbox is a manatee mailbox.

So, if you were in a manatee costume, just standing upright by the side of the road there at night holding up a mailbox, it wouldn't really be out of place or attract any attention? You know, if I were in the Keys, on the lam...

Just make sure you buy another one just make sure it weighs 7 tons and has Lo-jack installed.

... the slime is flowing again!

Hindenburg graphic with superimposed manatee curiously absent. Disappointed.

rogue_L_chick: IamSporko: [farm8.staticflickr.com image 375x500]

My 3 foot tall 100 pound Sasquatch (I call him Knobby) likes this thread.

I love this so much. I would put it behind this huge tree in my backyard so it'd look like that grainy video they always show. Did you make it?

It was a chistamas present from my brother a few years ago. I have it in my dining room now. He got it at this concrete sculpture company in Raleigh off of Lake Wheeler rd. They make a lot of Yodas too.

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WANT! Closest thing I could find on Amazon. I didn't have a wishlist, so I set one up just for this.

Soooo...do I like, take my top off now or something? Is that how this works? Or do I just talk all hot and stuff?

"Yeahhhh, I got boobs. They're...very boob-like. Yeahhhhhh, my boobs are so awesome. Buy me a mailbox, big boy."

I put on my robe and wizard hat...

kevinfra: Hector Remarkable: In the seven years she's owned the $1,000 manatee mailbox, people have smashed it with a golf club, dressed it up and tried to set it on fire,

They hate this manatee!
[i229.photobucket.com image 259x194]

Who tries to burn concrete?

Well, after all, this DID happen in Pennsyltucky...

On the other hand, dressing it up seems like some harmless fun.