After Seeing Truck in Jihadist Photo Texas Plumber Sues Dealer

December 15, 2015

A Texas plumber is suing a truck dealer after a vehicle emblazoned with his company’s name and phone number — and carrying gun-toting fighters — appeared in a photo circulated by purported Islamic extremists.

Mark Oberholtzer filed the lawsuit against Charlie Thomas Ford Ltd., of Houston. Oberholtzer wants more than $1 million to cover the damage to his company, Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City, since the photo was circulated on social media in 2014.

Oberholtzer says he’s received death threats and over 1,000 phone calls since the photo appeared online.

The lawsuit says the dealer didn’t remove the Mark-1 decals as promised before shipping the vehicle to Turkey.

The dealer didn’t return a call seeking comment.

The Associated Press has not been able to verify the photo.

Topics Lawsuits Texas Auto

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  • December 17, 2015 at 12:18 am
    Captain Planet says:
    Sean Hannity and team are in some back room at Faux News dreaming up a story suggesting that somehow, this is President Obama's fault. I guarantee it.
  • December 16, 2015 at 12:20 am
    boonedoggle says:
    Has he received any plumbing service call requests from Islamic customers?
  • December 15, 2015 at 4:26 pm
    BS says:
    Poor guy. Hope he wins big. On another note, shouldn't the feds/homeland security should be looking into this? I'm not necessarily saying that the dealer is knowingly supplyin... read more

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