Mark-1 Plumbing in Texas City is getting a lot of frantic calls lately. It is got nothing at all to do with plugged drains or leaks—and every thing to do with Syrian terrorists, social media, and a cast-off Ford F-250 bearing the tiny business’s name.
As Houston news station KHOU reports, Mark-1’s Jeff Oberholtzer traded in an old F-250 in October of last year. The truck went to auction, still wearing Mark-1’s name and telephone number on the door. Oberholtzer got his new vehicle and went on with his company.
Quick-forward to this week, when Oberholtzer’s truck appeared on Twitter in a decidedly different role:
#جبهة_أنصار_الدين #جيش_المهاجرين_والأنصار رشاش (٢٣) يحرق الأرض من تحت أقدام النصيرية والرافضة في #حندرات pic.twitter.com/3ZalpDNG8N
— جبهة أنصار الدين (@ansardeenfront) December 15, 2014
And cue the confused, frantic, and outraged phone calls.
The quickly-cash nature of auto auctions makes it tough to figure out exactly how the castoff Mark-1 truck went from Texas City, Texas, to, apparently, the front lines of Islamic extremist rebel group Ansar al-Deen’s fight in the Syrian Civil War. But it is produced for a planet of headaches for Oberholtzer, who’s had to reassure folks over and more than that, no, the loved ones-owned Texas enterprise does not assistance terrorists. “We have a secretary here, she’s scared to death,” he tells KHOU. “We all have families. We do not want no issues.”
There’s actually a straightforward explanation for how the truck ended up, allegedly, in Syria. The export market place for utilised U.S. vehicles reaches across the globe. The cars and trucks we consider of as old and busted hold immense worth in other parts of the planet, and auction transactions occur quick. The truck probably passed by way of numerous hands and ended up on a dealer’s lot in Syria before Mark-1 had fully broken in the car that replaced it. From there, judging by the image on Twitter, it became portion of Ansar al-Deen’s fleet.
But the world wide web is complete of hare-trigger conspiracy theorists prepared to pounce, and so Oberholtzer and the rest of the folks at Mark-1 have had to deal with death threats from mouth-breathers convinced that this plumbing shop is tied in to the worldwide terrorist ne2rk. The firm tells CBS News they’ve employed an attorney to try to take away the truck image from Twitter.
Don’;t forget: Get your business’s identifying information off your autos ahead of sending them to auction. Especially if these cars are capable of lugging a homebrew anti-aircraft rifle.
This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com through KHOU.
Texas Plumber’s Truck Traded In, Ends Up in Syria with Terrorists
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