I have a friend on two occasions ran into problems. I'm not sure there are only two but one someone stole all of his steps left the stand. The second one someone stole the whole fricking tree. He was cracking up telling me this story. Someguy walk by and saw him. He was on state property that was very remote area. Right next to it was choice property hunted by guys borned with a silver spoon in their mouth. Anyway the guy started giving my friend a bunch of Barbra Streisand and my friend told him to piss off he had every right to be there because he was on public land. Went back a week later and the whole tree was gone. He only buys lock ons at $30 if he leaves them behind.