ElFaro
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Lock Up Your Stuff While Away
In "4-Wheel Parts Xmas issue" they are selling a product called "ToyLok"...it's on the DrawTite website. It is a retractable cable with an eye on the
end of the cable for a lock. The cable is about 15' long and you snake it through your stuff and lock the end either to the vehicle, to the cable or
back to an eye at the cable box. I have seen them mounted on toyhaulers. I plan to mount mine on my toyhauler on the "door" side. In baja it comes
in handy when we leave our trailer for kayaking at a remote beach and our chairs, tables, 5-gal containers, inflatable, bikes etc. are sitting at the
trailer unattended. Cable and eye are pretty beefy...it sells for about $50-60 right now. They make another similiar one for about $150 that includes
a welded steel housing.
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Diver
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Years back there was a rash of early morning thefts at El Requeson and other nearby beaches.
Gas cans were high on the list of stolen items.
I took a 5 gallon can and purposely left it sitting about 10' away from our camper.
I tied some 100 lb test mono through the handle and to a buried anchor below the can.
2 mornings later, I heard the "bandito" trip and cuss when he tried to pick up the can on the run !
Something about waking up the dogs must have made them hurry away ! 
Another camper filled an old gas can with seawater and a little gas and left it to be stolen; it was.
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Diver
Years back there was a rash of early morning thefts at El Requeson and other nearby beaches.
Gas cans were high on the list of stolen items.
I took a 5 gallon can and purposely left it sitting about 10' away from our camper.
I tied some 100 lb test mono through the handle and to a buried anchor below the can.
2 mornings later, I heard the "bandito" trip and cuss when he tried to pick up the can on the run !
Something about waking up the dogs must have made them hurry away !
Another camper filled an old gas can with seawater and a little gas and left it to be stolen; it was.
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That's beautiful!
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monoloco
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I once lived in a neighborhood where my things were coming up missing, so I left out a 5 gal gas can with a couple of cups of sugar mixed in. Sure
enough, a couple of days latter, I awoke to my next door neighbor grinding away trying to start his car to no avail. When I walked over and suggested
that maybe the problem was bad gas, the look on his face was priceless.
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Casey67
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| Quote: | Originally posted by monoloco
I once lived in a neighborhood where my things were coming up missing, so I left out a 5 gal gas can with a couple of cups of sugar mixed in. Sure
enough, a couple of days latter, I awoke to my next door neighbor grinding away trying to start his car to no avail. When I walked over and suggested
that maybe the problem was bad gas, the look on his face was priceless. |
Truly priceless! 
I picked up a similar 15' cable lock for $42 to keep my gas cans and such from disappearing from my rooftop cargo tray while I'm down. I don't think
you need to spend too much on these unless you're locking up something extremely valuable since you can only really deter quick casual theft. Anybody
who comes equipped to steal your stuff is going to get it no matter how much you spend on the cable lock.
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/4/Auto/TowingTrailers/...
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Pompano
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Many years ago, about 35 I think, an airplane was stolen from the Serinadad airstrip. It was a twin Aztec, a favorite then of drug runners, and 2
criminals from the mainland heisted it one morning. The owner had foreseen such a theft and had the fuel line fitted with a cutoff switch...and he
thought this would stymy any theft attempt.
Wrong. Crooks are determined to be crooks.
Unfortunately for these airplane thieves, they did manage to start the engines after breaking into the aircraft an hour before dawn, take off, and
had begun their east turn over the mountains towards Guaymas...and then lost power and altitude as the available fuel in the lines sputtered out.
The huge explosion and fireball just 50 feet shy of the mountain's summit woke up the entire town of Mulege. The police and ambulance crew packed
down the remains of the two crooks in black zippered bags.
Stealing can be dangerous.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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