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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“Mark Oberholtzer”
Hmmm, using an American-sounding name as a cover. I wonder which mosque he goes to?
(just kidding)
Here’s what I came away with; F250’s are tough trucks.
Does 0bamugabe’s CIA buy them in bulk then ship them for sale to ISIS at a huge markup?
Smaller dealers, usually tiny lots, buy up old, rundown vehicles bigger dealers can’t sell to their clientele. If the dealer is an immigrant, they send them overseas to sell. These old cars sell well over there.
Remember cash for clunkers? Where did the clunkers go?
They are a nationwide dealer network.
But, while they should have removed the business decal, I wouldn't be so sure they sold the truck to someone questionable.
The owner says he traded the truck 3 years ago. Look closely at the inspection and registration stickers: they are dated 2014. Someone has renewed the registration in the past year.
It would be interesting to do a title search on the truck, but you would need a VIN. It wouldn't be expensive: http://www.add123.com/.
I have a window into the exporting of used vehicles. It is fairly big business.
A dealer can go on the internet and find whatever he is looking for. In this case a Ford 250. While perhaps worn out and unfit for normal duty in a busy American city, there is lots of good use possible in the third world where mechanics are cheap and driving distances not great.
Of special value are old Toyota trucks. They are shipped to Africa where they are either used or disassembled for parts. A truck more than 10 years old can be bought for almost nothing and recycled.
There are thousands of cars going down I-35 every day headed for Mexico and central America. They buy stuff that dealers wholesale and Mexico at least loves nice vehicles that are 10 years old or older due to some tax law.
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