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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Slugterra}}'': In "The Slug-Out", the Hooligang ride into Quiet Lawn Cavern shooting out the mailboxes with their slugs as they go.
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* ''The Benchwarmers'': In order to train the Benchwarmers to become better players, Reggie Jackson has them drive around the neighborhood smashing mailboxes with baseball bats.
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* ''The Benchwarmers'': ''Film/{{Benchwarmers}}'': In order to train the Benchwarmers to become better players, Reggie Jackson has them drive around the neighborhood smashing mailboxes with baseball bats.
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->''It's [Jimmy's] turn up to bat. He is excited and his hands are sweaty from the nerves. [His friends] round the corner and pick up speed. Jimmy swings and his bat cracks against a mailbox. It clangs to the ground. Junk mail flutters across the yard like snow. Jimmy feels naughty, but everyone else is laughing, so he laughs, too.''
-->--Jimmy's Low-Level Goon empathy text, ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass''
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* Alluded to in ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' when the lodge members confront a baseball player about a rash of broken mailboxes in the area. [[spoiler:He was innocent. It was actually Dalton to drive up sales at his store.]]
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* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'': In "Tricks and Treats", Lindsay is trying to prove to her new friends that she isn?t just a straight A student and all-round good girl; she does so by emulating their Halloween pranks, including playing mailbox baseball.
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* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'': In "Tricks and Treats", Lindsay is trying to prove to her new friends that she isn?t isn't just a straight A student and all-round good girl; she does so by emulating their Halloween pranks, including playing mailbox baseball.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The episode "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda", one of the crimes investigated by the team involves a car crash in which 2 teens named Chase Bowman and Max Poole were killed. Poole, the teen in the passenger seat, has a broken arm and splinters in his wounds that are not the result of the crash. It's eventually revealed that the teens had a habit of playing mailbox baseball, until a frequent target of theirs, Hal Jackmin, took matters into his own hands and replaced his mailbox with one reinforced with concrete. Thus when Poole hit the concrete-filled mailbox with his bat, it broke his arm, and damaged the bat (hence the splinters), [[GoneHorriblyRight but also caused Poole to accidentaly hit Bowman]] with the bat, which in turn caused the fatal crash.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The episode "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda", one of the crimes investigated by the team involves a car crash in which 2 teens named Chase Bowman and Max Poole were killed. Poole, the teen in the passenger seat, has a broken arm and splinters in his wounds that are not the result of the crash. It's eventually revealed that the [[spoiler:the teens had a habit of playing mailbox baseball, until a frequent target of theirs, Hal Jackmin, took matters into his own hands and replaced his mailbox with one reinforced with concrete. Thus when Poole hit the concrete-filled mailbox with his bat, it broke his arm, and damaged the bat (hence the splinters), [[GoneHorriblyRight but also caused Poole to accidentaly hit Bowman]] with the bat, which in turn caused the fatal crash. ]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}'': Donnie once got grounded for two weeks because he smashed mailboxes with a baseball bat.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', Clint (aka Henry) assigns protagonist Jimmy Hopkins a mission to ride his bike around the rich part of town and smash up mailboxes with a baseball bat. Weirdly, this mission is the only time in the game Jimmy is able to hold a bat while riding a bike.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', Clint (aka Henry) assigns protagonist Jimmy Hopkins a mission to ride his bike around the rich part of town and smash up mailboxes with a baseball bat. Weirdly, this mission is the only time in the game Jimmy is able to hold a bat while riding a bike.bike.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'' during the empathy text for the Low-Level Goon, when Jimmy imagines himself playing the role of one. Among the many activities he imagines as a Low-Level Goon, he imagines driving down the neighborhood street with his fellow goons, smashing mailboxes with a bat.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'' during the empathy text for the Low-Level Goon, when Jimmy imagines himself playing the role of one. Among the many activities he imagines as a Low-Level Goon, he imagines driving down the neighborhood street with his fellow goons, smashing mailboxes with a bat.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The episode "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda", one of the crimes investigated by the team involves a fatal car crash in which 2 teens were killed. The victim in the passenger seat has a broken arm and splinters in his wounds. It turns out the victims had a habit of playing mailbox baseball, until a frequent target of theirs, Hal Jackmin, took matters into his own hands and replaced his mailbox with one reinforced with concrete. This caused the teen hitting it to break his arm and shatter the baseball bat (hence the splinters), but [[GoneHorriblyRight also caused the car to swerve]], resulting in the fatal crash.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The episode "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda", one of the crimes investigated by the team involves a fatal car crash in which 2 teens named Chase Bowman and Max Poole were killed. The victim Poole, the teen in the passenger seat seat, has a broken arm and splinters in his wounds. It turns out wounds that are not the victims result of the crash. It's eventually revealed that the teens had a habit of playing mailbox baseball, until a frequent target of theirs, Hal Jackmin, took matters into his own hands and replaced his mailbox with one reinforced with concrete. This caused Thus when Poole hit the teen hitting it to break concrete-filled mailbox with his arm bat, it broke his arm, and shatter damaged the baseball bat (hence the splinters), but [[GoneHorriblyRight but also caused Poole to accidentaly hit Bowman]] with the car to swerve]], resulting bat, which in turn caused the fatal crash.crash.
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* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': One story revolves around a young couple who often go around smashing the mailboxes of their neighbors. One neighbor, who happened to be a retired steelworker, decided to reinforce his mailbox to make it bat-proof. When the couple return, the guy is unable to knock over the mailbox, and his repeated attempts lead to his bat splintering and a piece of it lodging in his head, killing him.
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* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': One story revolves around a young couple who often go around smashing the mailboxes of their neighbors. One neighbor, who happened to be a retired steelworker, decided to reinforce his mailbox to make it bat-proof. When the couple return, the guy is unable to knock over the mailbox, and his repeated attempts lead to his bat splintering and a piece of it lodging in his head, heart, killing him.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "Je Souhaite" features a man named Leslie Stokes, who has been crippled and confined to wheelchair after an accident as a teenager playing mailbox baseball with his brother Anson. As adults the two brothers get involved with a JerkassGenie, and Anson gets killed. After using his first two wishes to bring Anson back to life, but but in a decaying, zombie-like state, and make him talk, which results in Anson screaming at the top of his lungs, Leslie realises that he could use his third wish to allow himself to walk again, but the reanimated Anson blows them both up before he can make it.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "Je Souhaite" features a man named Leslie Stokes, who has been crippled and confined to a wheelchair after an accident as a teenager playing mailbox baseball with his brother Anson. As adults the two brothers get involved with a JerkassGenie, and Anson gets killed. After using his first two wishes to bring Anson back to life, but but in a decaying, zombie-like state, and make him talk, which results in Anson screaming at the top of his lungs, Leslie realises that he could use his third wish to allow himself to walk again, but the reanimated Anson blows them both up before he can make it.Anson.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', Clint (aka Henry) assigns protagonist Jimmy Hopkins a mission to ride his bike around the rich part of town and smash up mailboxes with a baseball bat. Weirdly, this mission is the only time in the game Jimmy is able to hold a bat while riding a bike.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Bully}}'', Clint (aka Henry) assigns protagonist Jimmy Hopkins a mission to ride his bike around the rich part of town and smash up mailboxes with a baseball bat. Weirdly, this mission is the only time in the game Jimmy is able to hold a bat while riding a bike.
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Mailbox baseball, also known as mailboxing, is the act of hanging out the passenger side of a car, usually with a bat, and hitting roadside mailboxes while another person is driving.
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Mailbox baseball, also known as mailboxing, is the act of hanging out the passenger side of a car, [[BatterUp usually with a bat, bat]], and hitting roadside mailboxes while another person is driving.
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