By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Multiple mailboxes and road signs west of Salina took a beating Tuesday afternoon.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that eight mailboxes and five road signs, including culvert alert and no passing zone signs, were struck between noon and 4:40 p.m. Tuesday between the 4200 block of State Street to the 7100 block of State Street.
Deputies talked to many of the mailbox owners and no one had seen or heard anything between noon and 4:40 p.m. Soldan said deputies were able to develop a time frame of when the damage occurred because some people had collected their mail for the day prior to noon and had not seen damage at that time.
Soldan said it appeared that a baseball bat or something similar was used to damage the mailboxes and signs.
Mailbox damage was estimated at $20 each. Sign damage was estimated at $50 each.