Texas Plumber Wants $1M After Jihadists Get His Truck

(Newser) – The Texas plumber whose truck infamously ended up in the hands of jihdists is suing a car dealership for more than $1 million, the Houston Chronicle reports.

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At issue: the dealership’s failure to remove a decal bearing the name and phone number of the Texas City man's business, which he says destroyed his livelihood and resulted in ongoing "shock, fear, anxiety, mental anguish, humiliation, and degradation" after a photo of his truck in Syria was widely circulated. In the suit filed last week, Mark Oberholtzer of Mark-1 Plumbing claims that, as he traded in the 2005 Ford F-250 in October 2013, he began to remove the decal, but a salesman said to "let them handle it." The suit traces the pickup's journey from a local auto auction to Mersin, Turkey. At some point, it entered Syria, as evidenced by a photo of the vehicle in Aleppo tweeted last December by an Ansar al-Deen militant. More...

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