I have to admit I stopped reading about halfway through... pisses me off when people say "Why didn't he hide in the closet and call the cops?". "Pay the deductible in the morning". You realize this is exactly the attitude that got us in this ####ing mess? If the risk of rummaging through a farmers truck was a bullet in the head, I assure you, thieves would think twice about doing it...
Good for him. Hope he gets off. EMT out.