A Texas plumber has filed a lawsuit against a car dealership after spotting a pickup truck he once owned in an ISIS video last year.
The plumber had been flooded with threats after his old truck, still emblazoned with his company’s name and telephone number, was seen driven by ISIS terrorists in Syria.
The plumber has now armed himself and is suing a Ford dealer. He wants $1 million in damages from the dealer, who sold the truck to a company in Turkey in 2013, according to records.
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Press TV reports: Mark Oberholtzer, the owner of Texas-based company “Mark-1 Plumbing,” is suing a Ford dealership for more than $1 million over damages to his company’s reputation after his company car, which still had the company’s phone number on it, ended up in the hands of Daesh terrorists in Syria.
Oberholtzer claims that he was harassed by hundreds of phone calls once a photo of his truck went viral.
The plumber’s lawyer wrote in the lawsuit that “by the end of the day, Mark-1’s office, Mark-1’s business phone, and Mark’s personal cell had received over 1,000 phone calls from around the nation.”
“These phone calls were in large part harassing and contained countless threats of violence, property harm, injury and even death,” the lawyer added.
Oberholtzer argues that the dealership could have easily prevented the problem by simply removing the company-painted decals before reselling the truck.
According to the lawsuit, in October 2013, Oberholtzer took his Ford F-250 truck to AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway in Houston for a trade-in.
He attempted to peel off the company’s decals from the truck’s door but a salesman stopped him, telling Oberholtzer that it would damage the paint, the lawsuit claims.
Oberholtzer said the salesman assured him that they would remove the company’s name and phone number before reselling the truck.
The truck was auctioned off in November 2013 and was shipped from Houston to Mersin, Turkey, the next month; only to set off a firestorm a year later after being spotted by a Twitter user.
Oberholtzer said the photo even prompted the Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to pay him visits.
The flow of Western vehicles into the hands of terrorists in the Middle East and other parts of the world has attracted global attention.
In October, the US Treasury Department launched an investigation to find out why so may Toyota pickup trucks and convoys of Land Cruisers featured in ISIs propaganda videos.
Last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.”
Niamh Harris
That’s not a Toyota. It’s an F-250. Just sayin’.
From the article: “According to the lawsuit, in October 2013, Oberholtzer took his Ford
F-250 truck to AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway in Houston for a trade-in.”
Next time read the article – the reference to Toyota in the article had to do with the US Government under Obama giving fleets of Toyota pickups to Syrian rebels … next time read the article before making ignorant posts…
Otherwise you, AC Smith, appear as ignorant as Obama …
Geez, Irene. Thanks for trolling a year old comment.
Also from the article: “In October, the US Treasury Department launched an investigation to find out why so may Toyota pickup trucks and convoys of Land Cruisers featured in ISIs propaganda videos.
“Last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the ‘Free Syrian Army.'”
That’s what my comment was in response to.
Next time, consider context. Otherwise you, Irene Waldron, appear as ignorant as Trump.
[See what I did there?]
That’s not a Toyota. It’s an F-250. Just sayin’.
CIA getting sloppy. ISIS is CIA and Mossad operation