Hi all.  Today was going to be my &quot;de-Christmasing&quot; of my house, but I decided to wait until tomorrow.  Greg is atv&#39;ing tomorrow, and I would rather be able to do it at my own leisure, when he isn&#39;t around.  I will get the decorations down and leave the tree up for him to disassemble.  He is outside working on &quot;Brutus&quot; right now.  For the last month, we have been having issues with our mailboxes on this street.  There is a high school a few blocks away, so we assume that it is a teen walking to and from school who is doing it.  At first, he was just putting all the flags up on the mailboxes, then he graduated to bending the flags outs.  Now, there are about 10 mailboxes on our street who do not have flags because they have been broken off.  I tried wrapping black duct tape all the way around the mail box several times, holding the flag against the mailbox and the little thug took the tape off.  Then I came up with the idea for Greg to drill a hole thru the flag and the mailbox and stick a bolt thru there.  That worked for a few days and then Greg removed the bolt so he could mail something and the flag got twisted into a pretzel.  The mailman said it is just our street.  I called the police and they said that unless we catch him and can identify him, there is nothing they can do.  Anyway, Greg has a welder and cutting torch and so he decided to build a mailbox and flag out of thick steel.  It will be so heavy, that he is going to have to build new poles to put it on.  he worked out his design the other day and is now implementing it.  It has become a battle of wills to outsmart the twerp.  We cannot see our mailbox from any of the windows in the house, and the only place you can see the mailbox from our yard, is on the north side yard, and I could not see if anyone was approaching, just right when they are on it, so could not get the camera ready in time.  Well, Greg just came in to take his shower - we are going to meet our younger son Chris, and his girlfriend at Casa Bonita for lunch, so I need to start pulling myself together....<br /><br />Falina, we play that game with Greg&#39;s family.  After the 3rd time a gift has been taken, it is dead and you can no longer take it from someone.  Do you guys play that way?