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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Plumber Sells Truck, Gets Branded A Terrorist
http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2014/12/16/texas-city-truck-seen-on-islamic-military-groups-twitter-feed/20509567/http://consumerist.com/2014/12/17/texas-plumber-sells-truck-gets-branded-a-terrorist/
"Normally, just selling your old truck doesnt lead to an international furor. The plumbing company just traded its old truck in at a local dealership last fall, and didnt expect to hear about it again. (Update: a local newspaper reports that the trade-in happened three years ago, a timeline that would give the truck more time to make its way to Syria.) Thats how trading your truck in works. Only what they failed to do was remove the business name and phone number from the door.
The companys owner assures the public that they are not sponsors of any militant groups in other countries, but that hasnt stopped angry members of the public from calling them and even making threats. We have a secretary here, shes scared to death. We all have families. We dont want no problems, the companys owner told TV station KHOU. They are no longer answering the phone.
The dealership sold the Ford F-250 at auction, and from there it disappeared into the used car market. Until it reappeared in a photo posted to Twitter by a group of Islamic militants fighting in Syrias civil war, with an anti-aircraft weapon mounted on the back. Unfortunately, the name and phone number of the plumbing company in Texas were still on the side.
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why didn't he just remove the decals before trading in the truck?
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Texas Plumber Sells Truck, Gets Branded A Terrorist (Original Post)
pstokely
Dec 2014
OP
All publicity is good publicity, right? Now no one will forget the name Mark-1 Plumbing!
petronius
Dec 2014
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Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)1. Any publicity is good publicity?
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. Why didn't the guys in the picture?
Okay, maybe they think it's funny as hell. I wonder if any of them know the landshark routine.
What a weird series of events, I suppose.
petronius
(26,604 posts)3. All publicity is good publicity, right? Now no one will forget the name Mark-1 Plumbing!
I feel bad for the company--people can be amazingly stupid and vicious--but it is a memorable example of globalization...
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)4. He should have removed the decals
Because the public is indeed that stupid.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)6. he assumed the dealer would remove the decals
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Glassunion
(10,201 posts)7. Never underestimate the power of stupidity in the public.
I think it was George Carlin who said something along the lines of: Just think about how stupid the average person is. You then have to realize that 1/2 of them are even stupider than that.
sarisataka
(18,779 posts)5. Mark-1 Plumbing
Official Plumbers of ISIS
Serving Texas City and areas north of the Baghdad, Hadithah, Kobani highway.
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