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Article: Gimme shelter: tonneau covers protect your valuables from the elements--and thieves.
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- Bass & Walleye Boats
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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It was just a cheap boat cover, a worn tow strap and a beat-up 5-gallon gas can. But they were mine, which is why I was furious when I returned to the boat ramp after a day of fishing to find someone had decided that anything left in the bed of my pickup was theirs for the taking. I swore that in the future it would be much more difficult for thieves to target anything in the bed of any pickup I owned.
That was 20 years ago, and I still feel the same way today as I did then: No matter where you live, you have to take measures to keep the bad elements at bay. Leave anything in an open pickup bed and odds are that whatever it is will get damaged or stolen ...