Mailbox baseball

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Two mailboxes that were engaged in mailbox baseball.

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 either be played as a game with score kept similar to baseball, or just done for fun. Either way, it is considered a form of vandalism.

Mailbox baseball is depicted in the movies Stand by Me, The Benchwarmers, and Dazed and Confused (with a trash can). It is also depicted briefly in an episode of Family Guy, an episode of Freaks and Geeks, a deleted scene in Juno, and the episode of The Simpsons where Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Nick were not available due to the fact that they were destroying mailboxes with a golf club.

U.S. Code Title 18, Section 1705 [1] prohibits the willful destruction of a mailbox, or mail within it, and allows for a fine and up to three years of imprisonment for persons who do so.