Posted on 12/17/2014 3:40:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
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. …
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Weird that NOBODY would have removed the decals. Must have traded it to a shady dealer.
Photoshopped per a link in another thread earlier today.
I never heard about AutoNation until this story, but their reputation just went kablooey now.
Or maybe the plumber is lying and he gave the truck to his terrorist buddies.
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What’s next, a fleet of Crown Vic’s from some police force. But even the cops paint over their doors before they auction off the vehicles. Seems as though this plumber could have saved himself a lot of grief by removing his business info before turning in the truck.
Two different makes of trucks and two different type of gun platforms, between the two shots. Not impossible to photoshop, but it’d be a bigger job to do, something tells me.
Possibly it was stolen or purchased by a terrorist sympathizer and shipped to the region, or bought in west Africa after being stolen. There has been some news coverage in Canada recently about this practice of both stealing and purchasing fraudulently (down payment only then the vehicle is shipped) of vehicles that were then shipped in containers from Canadian east coast ports to west Africa where they went on the black market.
Quite possibly this is how Oberholzer’s truck ended up in Syria, somebody from Boko Al Haram bought (or maybe stole) the vehicle in west Africa and traded it to ISIS, or some group of them drove it there and joined in the fight.
There is a fairly significant scam market for buying used vehicles in the USA with counterfeit checks. The vehicles get shipped overseas where they locals aren’t so particular about having a valid title history.
Normally they do this with higher-end collector cars, but I guess they can buy a beater truck too.
Beat me by two mintues. In a former life I was a prosecutor; I put a guy in prison for doing the counterfeit check deal. He was shipping the cars to Malaysia.
Cash for klunkers?
Evil Bert took it with him when he went to join Osama.
I was shocked to find I was riding in my old previous 57 Chevy Belaire in Acuna Mexico. Later, I unexpectedly watched my 1950 Nash humpback being destroyed in a destruction derby many miles from hometown.
I also saw the Daily Mail article about the possibility of the pickup being photoshopped. However, take a look at the auto-cannon/machine gun in the bed of the two trucks. They are totally different weapons, to include different shields. I don’t think it was photoshopped, unless the person doing it changed the angle of the truck and put in a different gun in the pickup’s bed.
The only similarity with trucks? Black. That’s it. May have been photoshopped, no evidence in article.
Exporting old pickups, ESPECIALLY old diesel pickups. to the turd world is a big business.
Along the border, they are far more likely to steal a 1998 dually, than a brand new lexus.
It’s a photoshop, unless there were two trucks sitting at very nearly the same spot on the road, one right after the other, firing at something. The pattern of objects lying on the road is the same for both pics, and the plumbers truck is significantly closer to the camera, which would conveniently let them cover the smaller toyota in the original, plus they can re-use the same gun flash. It’s something anyone with even a modicum of photoshop experience can do in about 15 minutes.
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