Quick story. Wife wants to go to beach with friends, total of 15 people, only have two vehicles that are 4 wheel drive. So, my Jeep and her pathfinder get loaded up like pack mules, the jeep doesn't care, it was built for this stuff, both vehicles have luggage racks in the receiver hitch. Get almost to the beach, convoy of 4 vehicles. Plan is to stop, take gear to beach, then ferry additional people to beach from parking area. The wife and her friends decide to stop at a store, to pick some stuff up, I drive out on the sand to offload the jeep and my passengers when I get a call, I need to go back. I baha'd back across the beach and headed to their location.
I find the Pathfinder on the side of the road, with the rack lying in the road. Drivers swerving around it, horns blaring......Apparently while at Walmart or wearever, someone decided to steal the lock pin. 7 miles after leaving the store, it fell off. I know for a fact I pinned it before the trip, because I had to steal a pin from another vehicle. The ladies gave a valiant effort to move it, but the weight of 3 coolers, chairs, boogie boards and associated what not proved beyond their efforts.
And, she managed to get the Pathfinder stuck in the sand when we left that night, someone pulled her loose before I got turned around.....car full of women, in bathing suits, on the beach, stuck.......
Locks pins, hitches....it doesn't matter, around here, if it's not locked down, someone will steal it. I once caught a guy trying to steal the hitch off my jeep, while I was in it eating my lunch! That didn't turn out well for him.....
I done some weird stuff in my time, sometimes my stuff looks like the Beverley Hillbillies are coming to town.....never once lost a load.......touch wood.
