Texas Plumber Sells Truck, Gets Branded A Terrorist

[pstokely]

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 doesn’t lead to an international furor. The plumbing company just traded its old truck in at a local dealership last fall, and didn’t 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.) That’s how trading your truck in works. Only what they failed to do was remove the business name and phone number from the door.
The company’s owner assures the public that they are not sponsors of any militant groups in other countries, but that hasn’t stopped angry members of the public from calling them and even making threats. “We have a secretary here, she’s scared to death. We all have families. We don’t want no problems,” the company’s 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 Syria’s 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?

[Major Nikon]

1. Any publicity is good publicity?

[Scootaloo]

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]

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]

4. He should have removed the decals

Because the public is indeed that stupid.

[pstokely]

6. he assumed the dealer would remove the decals

nt

[Glassunion]

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]

5. Mark-1 Plumbing

Official Plumbers of ISIS
Serving Texas City and areas north of the Baghdad, Hadithah, Kobani highway.
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