{"id":297724,"date":"2025-09-27T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/man-says-large-piece-of-granite-nearly-struck-him-in-nh-driveway\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:56:07","slug":"man-says-large-piece-of-granite-nearly-struck-him-in-nh-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/man-says-large-piece-of-granite-nearly-struck-him-in-nh-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Man says large piece of granite nearly struck him in NH driveway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAND GROUNDWATER TRUST FUND&#8230;     A SECOND, LARGER, PHASE-ONE PAYMENT IS EXPECTED NEAR THE END OF THE YEAR&#8230;      A MAN IN ALTON SAYS HE WAS REPLACING HIS MAILBOX IN HIS DRIVEWAY&#8230;WHEN THIS LANDED ABOUT 10 FEET FROM HIM&#8230;     IT&#8217;S A MASSIVE CHUNK OF GRANITE&#8230;     THE MAN SAYS IT KNOCKED DOWN A TREE LIMB&#8230;AND SMASHED DOWN&#8230;     YOU CAN SEE THE MARK IT LEFT IN THE DRIVEWAY&#8230;     RICHARD MOLINE SAYS HE HEARD AN EXPLOSION BEFORE.     HE SAYS.. IT&#8217;S FORTUNATE NO ONE GOT HURT. <we heard=\"\" blasts=\"\" like=\"\" this=\"\" before=\"\" but=\"\" having=\"\" piece=\"\" of=\"\" rock=\"\" come=\"\" in=\"\" your=\"\" driveway..=\"\" it=\"\" could=\"\" have=\"\" been=\"\" a=\"\" lot=\"\" worse.=\"\">      THE FAMILY DID GET IN<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/we><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"mobile\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- blocks\/ad.twig --><\/p>\n<p><!-- blocks\/ad.twig --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile\">\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/headline --><\/p>\n<section class=\"article-headline\">\n<p>New Hampshire man says large piece of granite nearly struck him in driveway<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!-- \/article\/blocks\/headline --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-branding\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/htv_default_image\/site_branding\/wmur.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WMUR logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:29 PM EDT Sep 27, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\">Editorial Standards <span class=\"info-icon\">\u24d8<\/span><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- article\/blocks\/byline --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/article\/blocks\/byline --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man in a New Hampshire town says he was replacing his mailbox when a large piece of granite landed about 10 feet from him.Richard Moline, from Alton, said it knocked down a tree limb and smashed down, leaving a mark in the driveway. He said he heard an explosion before and says it&#8217;s fortunate no one got hurt. &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard blasts like this before, but having this piece of rock come into your driveway. It could have been a lot worse,&#8221; Moline said.The family did get in contact with the police and fire departments. The family thinks the piece may have come from a quarry blasting down the road.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content--body-text\">\n<p>A man in a New Hampshire town says he was replacing his mailbox when a large piece of granite landed about 10 feet from him.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Moline, from Alton, said it knocked down a tree limb and smashed down, leaving a mark in the driveway. <\/p>\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/side-floater --><\/p>\n<p><!-- article\/blocks\/side-floater --><\/p>\n<p>He said he heard an explosion before and says it&#8217;s fortunate no one got hurt. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve heard blasts like this before, but having this piece of rock come into your driveway. It could have been a lot worse,&#8221; Moline said.<\/p>\n<p>The family did get in contact with the police and fire departments. The family thinks the piece may have come from a quarry blasting down the road. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/granite-piece-nearly-strikes-man-alton-new-hampshire\/68094922\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AND GROUNDWATER TRUST FUND&#8230; A SECOND, LARGER, PHASE-ONE PAYMENT IS EXPECTED NEAR THE END OF THE YEAR&#8230; A MAN IN ALTON SAYS HE WAS REPLACING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}