Built like a brick ****house. Mailbox, that is.

Bob_Luken

I've been driving this route daily for years and recently saw a Hispanic man building a brick mailbox over the course of a few days and at great risk to his health due to the busy traffic. After its completion I noticed tiny shelves of half bricks had been included and were now proudly displaying a matching pair of Carona beer bottles, (Seemingly unopened bottles). Each day I would see the bottles and I began to notice that the sides were built with openings as well as the front. Today I decided to take a couple of photos. In those photos I saw "something" inside the front opening and it made me want to take an even closer look. I drove back by, and the traffic eased up enough to allow for a few more pics. It just kept getting better.

Last one enlarged for detail. Lots of detail.

peter4jc

I'm guessing he got tired of the kids and their baseball bats.

Stubble

@Bob_Luken said:
I've been driving this route daily for years and recently saw a Hispanic man building a brick mailbox over the course of a few days and at great risk to his health due to the busy traffic. After its completion I noticed tiny shelves of half bricks had been included and were now proudly displaying a matching pair of Carona beer bottles, (Seemingly unopened bottles). Each day I would see the bottles and I began to notice that the sides were built with openings as well as the front. Today I decided to take a couple of photos. In those photos I saw "something" inside the front opening and it made me want to take an even closer look. I drove back by, and the traffic eased up enough to allow for a few more pics. It just kept getting better.

Last one enlarged for detail. Lots of detail.

Looks like a Jesus Malverde figurine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús_Malverde

dirtdude

That would explain the Benjamin behind the horse.

Bob_Luken

What about the

LUPE
V ZKES
E

?
Is the E at the bottom out of place or is it where it was intended to be?
I tried to look up both VEZKES
and ZKES
Not much found.

dirtdude

It looks like maybe a court case but I didn't come up with anything

OutdoorsSmoke_21191

Possibly??? Type of Descanso???

https://drivemexicomagazine.com/roadside-memorials-in-mexico/

Interrupted Journey

Another myth about descansos is what they represent. From a cultural and folkloric perspective, descansos mark an “interrupted journey,” a path (physical, spiritual or metaphorical) whose course has been altered (often by tragedy). Descansos do not necessarily “mark the place where a soul left this earth in a car crash”; very few mark where an accident victim actually died, unless he or she was killed instantly at the site. Far more often, victims die hours or days later in a hospital or in an ambulance on the way there.