The lawsuit claims that Oberholtzer started to peel the “Mark-1 Plumbing” decal off when a salesperson told him that doing so would blemish the paint on the vehicle. The salesperson, Edgar Velasquez, assured Oberholtzer that the dealership would remove the decal themselves using a tool that “works better.”
Mark-1 Plumbing received over 1,000 phone calls from around the country just two days after the tweet was posted, Oberholtzer’s suit alleges. His entire family feared for their lives, and his secretary was too scared to return to the office. On the advice of agents from the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, Oberholtzer began carrying a handgun.
So the dealer sold it to an overseas dealer. He did nothing wrong.
If the plumber was so concerned, he should have stripped the decals off it when he sold it. We used to do that with our trucks back in the 80’s. I am not sure why he wouldn’t have done that.
I am sorry the guy is getting death threats. Instead of looking for someone to blame, blame himself.
Unless they can show the dealer knowingly sold it to jihadists, it was the owner’s responsibility to have removed the decals.
Who knows how many hands the truck went through before ending up in Syria?
Plumbers, please do sell your used service trucks to Jihadists. Just leave a few “pipe” bombs hidden on board, with a GPS/audio safety mechanism so that they will only explode in a specific region, after the sound of gunfire and shouts of “Alahu Akbar!”
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What a coincidence that a plumbing company truck was sent to be used by people who had no idea what plumbing is.
I feel bad for the plumber. Definitely a sh**ty situation.
Only a moron would let anything out of his/her control without removing logo or watching to verify it was done.
Seems like I remember another story about a Toyota pickup somebody recognized from an ISIS video.