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17 Dec ’14 - 10:29 am
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lol, what's the saying? There is no such thing as bad press?

When Texas plumber Mark Oberholtzer traded in his black Ford F-250 pickup truck, he expected it would live a second life in the hands of new owners, but probably not these owners. 

Oberholtzer’s Texas City plumbing company, Mark-1 Plumbing, has been inundated with threats after a photo of his old Ford work truck appeared on a terrorist Twitter feed, equipped with an anti-aircraft gun in the bed and still bearing the company logo on the door.

According to Houston’s KHOU, Oberholtzer traded in the F-250 to an AutoNation Ford dealership in Houston last November, but accidentally forgot to remove his business’ decals. A representative at the dealership said the truck immediately went up for auction, and most likely exchanged hands many times before ending up on the front lines of Syria’s civil war, piloted by terrorist fighters.

“To think something we would use to pull trailers, now is being used for terror, it’s crazy,” notes Jeff Oberholtzer, Mark’s son. “Never in my lifetime would I think something like that.”

The company began receiving threatening calls earlier this week from people all across the country that assumed the small town business was aiding and abetting terror. “We have nothing to do with terror at all,” commented Oberholtzer.

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/texas-plumber-ford-truck-ends-terrorists-133033518.html

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Too funny.

A guy we work with a bit here and there has had a couple of old tacomas in a row.  When he had his last truck he would get men coming up to him all the time asking how much he wanted to sell it for.  He is pretty sure it ended up in the middle east somewhere once he finally let it go. 

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hmm, I did see a tacoma on the news tonight, coincidence?

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looks like he is suing

http://abcnews.go.co.....o-35756970

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