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Saturday 12 December 2015

US man sues dealer after his plumbing truck is seen being used by jihadists to fight in Syria

Mark Oberholtzer, owner of Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City, left the 'Mark-1 plumbing' stickers on the truck when he traded it in for a newer Ford pickup at AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway in October 2013. A year later, a photo posted on Twitter by the extremist Ansar al-Deen Front from the front lines of the war in Syria showed his truck - stickers and all - being used by jihadis. Oberholtzer, who says he has received death threats, is now seeking more than $1million in punitive damages from AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway for fraud, gross negligence, negligent misrepresentation, defamation, invasion of privacy and deceptive trade, according to Courthouse News. 

 
At the time he turned his truck into the dealer, he started peeling the stickers off his truck, but a salesman stopped him, telling him it ‘would blemish the vehicle paint’ and ‘the dealership had something better for removal’, Oberholtzer said in a lawsuit in Harris County Court.

On December 17, 2014, Oberholtzer’s secretary called him to let him know that a member of the jihadi group Ansar al-Deen tweeted a ‘propaganda photograph’ with a message reading: ‘using plumbing truck against regime in #Aleppo’.

‘By the end of the day, Mark-1's office, Mark-1's business phone, and Mark's personal cellphone had received over 1,000 phone calls from the around the nation. These phone calls were in large part harassing and contained countless threats of violence, property harm, injury and even death,’ Oberholtzer’s complaint said.

The plumber said his secretary was too scared to go to the office and that he was afraid for himself and his family, so he traveled to McCallen to escape the backlash.

After the photo and video went viral, ‘USA Today, CBS, NBC and Inside Edition’ requested interviews and the FBI and Department of Homeland Security stopped by to tell him ‘there are crazy people out there’ and that he should ‘protect himself’.
Oberholtzer’s complaint also mentions The Colbert Report’s final episode, which ‘began with the segment “Texan’s Truck in Syria”,’ which featured his truck and was the ‘most watched episode ever in the show’s history’.

A year later, Oberholtzer said he still gets threatening phone calls ‘whenever ISIS commits an atrocity that is reported nationally’.

Culled from UK Daily Mail

42 comments:

Davido's driver said...

Strange happenings

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

La wa o,things we hear...May God take control.

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmm
Daz hw people enter in2 trouble dey knw notin abt
It is safer dis way


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Unknown said...

Ways to make quick money....wish him luck in his lawsuit.

STERN said...

Never will I have a Muslim worker or staff in my house. Mark, you really tried trust me. Those muslims can blackmail you. I can never borrow a Muslim any of my stuff or even dash. They will obviously set u up with it. This is an example.

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmm

All they knw in America is suing each other even@tinsdat can easily b resolved.

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Unknown said...

Definitely, he's gonna make some money from them for negligence; www.mydayseven.com says so

Unknown said...

L
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That vuvuzela P guy

Jasmine Joseph said...

Hmmmmmmmm one day all the rubbish will be behind us

BONARIO NNAGS said...

After reading this, the man actually has a case against Ford.



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Unknown said...

Too bad....

Unknown said...

Too bad....

Unknown said...

Tale of the most unfortunate event.

Alloy Chikezie said...

Only in the white man's land.

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Unknown said...

That dealer is a suspect.

Unknown said...

No be small sometin ni

Unknown said...

Dis dude shld b more concerned abt his safety rather than filing 4 compensation with cash.

Anonymous said...

In Nigeria many idiots feel too lazy to scrape even mortuary labels from imported vans. They have neither shame nor pride

etochi21 said...

That's pure stupidity

Anonymous said...

What did this tell u, the people who claim they are fighting jihadis and the people who supply all their Arms and Trucks.

Anonymous said...

What did this tell u, the people who claim they are fighting jihadis and the people who supply all their Arms and Trucks.

Anonymous said...

What did this tell u, the people who claim they are fighting jihadis and the people who supply all their Arms and Trucks.

Anonymous said...

What did this tell u, the people who claim they are fighting jihadis and the people who supply all their Arms and Trucks.

Anonymous said...

What did this tell u, the people who claim they are fighting jihadis and the people who supply all their Arms and Trucks.

Anonymous said...

The guy don kolo were the f*ck does sh*t like this happens? You traded the car to national auto ford the dealer sold it to someone they shipped the car to middle to middle-east may be couple of trades in middle-east you saw picture and you want to blame the poor dealer. How does that make logical sense? Conservatives people can be annoying especially the Texas folks.

Unknown said...

All the best to him with his lawsuit. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

You are only trying to create a scene,anyone who takes you serious have no time,with you or without Islam and Muslims are better and doing well.

Unknown said...

Linda self
~D great anonymous!

Unknown said...

Hmmm, funny and serious.

ary said...

This could be a break through in finding those who fund the sect.

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmm

All they knw in America is suing each other even@tinsdat can easily b resolved.

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Anonymous said...

Not about how the car got there, it's about his biz name on the truck the guy decieved him he'll wipe out.

Unknown said...

The man should go ahead and sue their asses. He's very right to sue.

















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Anonymous said...

....this is for those who wonder how the so called terrorist get their weapons. They empowered the terrorists and come back to mobilize the world to fight them. The most annoying is the slandering of the noblest religion. Guess what,the media is a culprit.

Victor Emeka Isaac said...

That's so bad....before you know now they've implicated an innocent man




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Unknown said...

A car sold in USA found its way to Aleppo. These people should put 2 and 2 together. They should track the sale of the car to discover ISIS sympathizers in their community and leave this man alone. Unless of course, he gets implicated too.

Unknown said...

$1mill na money? For his life and FAM?

kings11ng said...

America been sponsoring the terrorists they claim to fight from time immemorial. After the federal reserve the next biggest fraud in America is the military industrial complex

Jerry Seinfeld said...

Drains clogged—we'll blast 'em open.

Anonymous said...

Drains clogged—we'll blast 'em open.

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Unknown said...

Very true. Same people selling the guns and munitions all accross the globe. George Bush's Grandfather sold oil to the Nazi during the war. From his company "US Oil" he enabled them to bomb London. It is all rogue profiteering with zero morality or accountability.

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