What would have made matters worse is that I had all sorts of estate sale items in the bed of my truck, including a $400-$500 copper kettle. There were also two VERY large Ridgid pipe threaders with handles that would have made for extremely dangerous "weapons" or could have been used to effect some big time damage on people or property. If I'd have seen that stuff start to "walk" out of my truck, I'm sure I'd have snapped and immediately blown a gasket.

I had two of these in the bed (they weigh 23-lbs. each!)

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As well as this bad boy weighing in at 5-lbs. (truck/heavy equipment lug wrench or head-knocker).

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Needless to say, anybody reaching into the bed of my truck would have had access to some pretty nasty "weapons" considering the close quarters shown above.