The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Tuesday, January 01, 2019 03:03 PM
Seymour Woman Finds Severed Fish Heads, Chewing Tobacco In Mailboxes Over Weekend
Miranda Stanifer said there were no surprises when she checked her mail on Friday, so it must have happened overnight.
"So whoever put these in my mailboxes is seriously disturbed," Stanifer wrote on Facebook. "I don’t find it funny."
The mailboxes sit side-by-side on her eight acres of land, and Stanifer said her neighbors' mailboxes were all clear of Copenhagen chewing tobacco and fish heads. She doesn't believe any of them would have done it, so she's still searching for the culprit.
Stanifer filed a police report and is planning to install cameras to deter any fish head bandits from dropping by her property in the future.
This isn't the first time someone in East Tennessee has found a fish head in their mailbox. It happened to Knoxville resident Angela Brookshire on Feb. 7 this year.
"Tilapia cut up. They had the bodies and they cut the heads off," Brookshire said.
These pranks could be considered a federal offense. The Postal Service said it's against federal law to vandalize mailboxes or destroy any mail inside, and neighbors should report any problems to their local postmaster.
