Posted on 12/14/2015 3:11:46 PM PST by Mr Radical
A Texas plumber has dealt with death threats and abusive phone calls after the Ford truck he sold to a local dealership showed up in the hands of jihadists in Syria with his company sign intact. Now he is suing for at least $1 million in damages.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
Apparently there is a market for used trucks in the ME.
You know did anyone think to shut up and start hiding gps bugs in the used truck sold in to this ISIS supply chain?
So the Truck being from Texas and all was the gun a dealer add-on to sweeten the deal?
According to Carfax vehicle history reports, attached to the lawsuit as evidence, the truck was sold at an auction on November 11, 2013. It was exported from Houston and ended up in Mersin, a port in southeastern Turkey. On December 15, 2014, a photo of the truck posted on Twitter showed it being used as a weapons platform by a jihadist group in Syria - with the “Mark-1 Plumbing” sign still there.
There is something very odd going on here. A 2005 truck wouldn’t have a whole lot of resale value, yet someone was willing to pay the freight to have it shipped half way around the world. Wouldn’t there be a good supply of used pickup trucks already in the Middle East, Africa, or Europe?
I traded in a truck once and quite a few months later I got a letter from the highway patrol to pick up my abandoned vehicle...
I meant the plumber.
Interesting if the dealership said they’d peel off the decals, then sold the truck without doing so. That, in my book, probably helps the plumber’s case.
Moral of the story: don’t reply on spoken promised. Get it in writing, or do it yourself.
He should get much more.
Well now... I was actually surprised at the KBB value listed for my Dad's RWD PU (similar age, low mileage), and then it sold to a neighbor for just under... I also was a little "sticker shocked" by how much we had to pay to get a 7 year old SUV with moderately low mileage. It turned out the one we got was in better condition than some similar vehicles we looked at, at similar or higher prices, so, the "deal" we got was good: I'm just saying the prices are "healthy".
I suspect part of this is due to the prices of new vehicles, part is an after effect of "cash for clunkers" taking a lot of used vehicles off the market, and, just maybe, if one looks at how many PU's and SUV's are getting shot up in the ME, maybe there IS a relative shortage of used "local" PU's and SUV's in the region?
Are you kidding? I’d pay good money for a ford if it came with a ZU-23 in the bed!
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