All Mark Oberholtzer wanted to do was upgrade his ride.
What he got instead was a world of trouble from half a world away.
The Texas City, Texas, plumbing company owner is suing a
Ford dealership for more than $1 million in financial losses and damages to his
company's reputation after a pickup truck he once owned ended up with Islamic
militants fighting in Syria's civil war.
A photo of the truck, with his Mark-1 Plumbing decals
still attached, went viral, leading to thousands of harassing phone calls.
"By the end of the day, Mark-1's office, Mark-1's
business phone, and Mark's personal cell had received over 1,000 phone calls
from around the nation," Oberholzer's lawyer wrote in the lawsuit, filed
December 9 in Harris County, Texas. "These phone calls were in large part
harassing and contained countless threats of violence, property harm, injury
and even death."
Oberholtzer said this wouldn't have happened if the
dealership had just removed the decals before the truck was resold.
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