Posted on 12/18/2014 7:49:43 AM PST by servo1969
A Texas plumber is receiving threatening calls after his old pickup truck appeared in a jihadist video in Syria.
The Ansar Al-Deen terrorist group used his truck in a propaganda video in Syria.
Texas City plumber Mark Oberholtzer has been bombarded with calls, some hostile, since a truck he traded in at AutoNation was shown being used as a gun platform in Syria. (Galveston Daily Times)
The Ansar Al-Deen Front, an independent Islamist group operating near Aleppo, Syria, posted video of the truck used in fighting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLSN0pDqABM
FOX News reported:
A Texas plumber has been receiving threats after a photo emerged of Islamic extremists in Syria firing a high-powered gun from the bed of his old pickup, which still bears his company’s logo on the door.
An extremist group, Ansar al-Deen Front, posted the photo of its fighters aboard the Ford F-250 sometime on Monday. That prompted a flood of calls to Mark Oberholtzer, who owns Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City, and has nothing to do with Syria’s bloody civil war.
“How it ended up in Syria, I’ll never know,” Oberholtzer told The Galveston Daily News.
Oberholtzer told the paper that he traded in the truck three years ago. The Houston dealership he turned it over to, AutoNation, told KHOU.com that the truck was auctioned and was likely traded from owner to owner over the course of three years.
Only question I have is... Why is this truck still in one piece? I know it was ‘Built Ford Tough’ but there’s got to be a missle that will send the F-250 to the big blue oval in the sky.
As compared to a camel or donkey, I’d imagine so!................
They use them as taxicabs.
Any different from a photo of North Korean hackers using DELL computers?
Yep. Mine was a ‘71 as well.
****The vehicles were supposed to be recycled or parted out.***
They could have driven it down into Arkansas and for $50.00 got a new clean title and sold it as “a truck ONLY driven to church om Sunday by my dear old Momma who just passed away!”
You would be surprised how many autos there are out there with two or more “clean” titles floating around. One from the original owner and one from Arkansas.
I hope these Jihadis have current tags, inspection and insurance on that F250.
From local 2 Houston.
A spokesperson for Autonation told Local 2, the vehicle was part of a trade-in, back in November 2013. The 2005 pick-up truck had 176,000 miles on it and within 24 hours went to auction.
What happened to it after that is a mystery.
The Autonation spokesperson said whoever obtained the vehicle probably didn’t register it because that’s where the paper trail stops. He also said the truck was probably part of an overseas whole sale and that’s how it ended up in Syria.
Well, they are still better than a camel. But the driver still smells the same............
That explains the 2014 registration and inspection stickers.
I wonder why the plumber said it was three years ago? That was just over 1 year ago.
I’m into my ‘thin-skinned’ about people who are thin-skinned... Besides, aren’t people with red hair also ‘victims’ on some level?
:)
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