# Secure that shit in your pickup truck, Jethro **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 12, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162 "2005-03-12T07:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/21 "2005-03-14T06:02:09Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > Yeah, well at least this vehicle had a driver in it. Mebbe two drivers, from the looks of it. And I doubt either one knew how to use a laptop. 😉 HA HA HA Nice. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/22 "2005-03-14T19:58:26Z")
Around here, some people scrape up money by collecting cardboard and taking it to a recycling center for a fee. Invariably, the vehicle used in this enterprise is an old half-ton pickup with two tons of cardboard stuffed into it. This feat is accomplished by the addition of tall siding to the truck bed, made from scraps of plywood or sheet metal. Of course, the excessive weight of all this cardboard deforms the bed outwards and downwards, but this just means that more volume is available for more cardboard. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/23 "2005-03-14T21:44:43Z")
huh? Was that meant for another thread, **sturmhauke**? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/24 "2005-03-14T21:47:09Z")
Or were you saying that you have lots of those folks driving around with unsecured cardboard loads? Do those end up all over the highway in your area? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/25 "2005-03-14T22:00:58Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Around here, some people scrape up money by collecting cardboard and taking it to a recycling center for a fee. Invariably, the vehicle used in this enterprise is an old half-ton pickup with two tons of cardboard stuffed into it. This feat is accomplished by the addition of tall siding to the truck bed, made from scraps of plywood or sheet metal. Of course, the excessive weight of all this cardboard deforms the bed outwards and downwards, but this just means that more volume is available for more cardboard. Of course, the distance driven to the recycling center costs more in fuel than they are getting from the cardboard. I know. I’ve been there. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/26 "2005-03-14T22:52:58Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > I gree. ‘taint Jethro’s fault. Thems interstates is for trash distro-beau-ton. I’m hearin’ them landfills are bad. > > But if ya spread it out over 50 miles, it’s almost like it 'taint there atall. The solution to polution is dilution. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/27 "2005-03-15T01:12:57Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > Or were you saying that you have lots of those folks driving around with unsecured cardboard loads? Do those end up all over the highway in your area? Yeah, sorry I forgot to add that part. The other day one of these trucks thought I had a missile lockon, so he was dumping chaff all over the place. He was also threatening to launch a rear firing ladder until I got out from behind him. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162/28 "2005-03-15T05:08:26Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Yeah, sorry I forgot to add that part. The other day one of these trucks thought I had a missile lockon, so he was dumping chaff all over the place. He was also threatening to launch a rear firing ladder until I got out from behind him. Should have fired those missiles. Drat, that’s what I forgot at the repair place… to have them install the forward rocket launchers… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secure-that-shit-in-your-pickup-truck-jethro/294162.md?page=1)