I truly don't believe $1mil was enough. Dude had to close shop, lost his whole business and all those clients, he and his employees received countless death threats, and they had to leave town.
My guess is that they paid him about 500k and that his lawyer took a good piece of that. Personally I think the dealership should have paid at least 2.5 million in damages.
@@papimaximus95 if you think Charley Thomas cares about that, then you didn't live through their horrible late nite commercials in the early 90's! During the day, they ran legit commercials. Starting Fri at Midnight, they had a fixed camera, a spanish speaking announcer and car after car would pull up, stop at the camera. A smoking hot half dressed mexican girl would crawl out the car, smile and the next car would pull into the shot. They'd fill a 3rd block of TV with ad after ad after ad. I'll never forget the heavy mexican accent saying "Char-ley Tho-mas"! Ha! All you heard about were those late nite used cars breaking down left and right.
"infidel" is the word that Christian crusaders used to describe Muslims. Muslims do not use that word, nor is there an Arabic equivalent of that word. Try reading on occasion 🤡
So weird that people would assume he was sympathetic to terrorists. Who knows where any of our old vehicles end up or what they are used for? Guns too for that matter.
Because they had thought he had sold it directly to them instead of actually finding the problem and root it out. Which people had blindly followed that "private sales" is "dangerous", despite not knowing the context. Sketchy gun sales is another reason why people had blindly lump all private gun sales "supporting" Cartels and Terrorists alike. Gun shows as well.
There are tons of stories about people getting tickets because they sold their car and let the buyer keep the plates so they wouldn't get stopped on the way home. I remember one guy only found out because he got denied buying a gun because of an outstanding warrant. Apparently the buyer or whoever was driving it racked up a TON of tickets on red light cameras.
Most people don’t know what the used car trade looks like. So I can see how conclusions could be drawn, but pretty basic research proves most of that wrong.
I’ll never forget this one, the plumber was from my home town specifically and when it happened I was out visiting family in Mississippi. I saw the news clip, recognized the area code as home, and remember feeling so terrible for the poor man. He didn’t do anything wrong, just got done over by a used car dealership.
Traded my vehicle to a dealership and didn't bother with the specific DMV papers stating I no longer owned it, cuz I thought I was dealing with a professional business, and they said they would handle all the DMV paperwork. 1 month later, I receive a bill from an out of state toll road that I owed them for an unpaid toll. They also said fines were added daily. They have no phone number to call and emails that took days to be responded too only stated that all I could bo is prove I didn't own it and send that paperwork in. Long story long, I sent a copy of the title transfer, bill of sale, and other proof to their claim dispute address and after one more updated bill from them I finally never heard from them again. Immoral of the story, don't trust anyone, document everything, and above all, in any response email to ass holes you shouldn't have to deal with in the first place, make sure to sign your email with "ingest feces and expire!". That is the more polite version of "eat shit and die!".
I get it. Had something similar happen to me but with far better consequences. After desert storm i separated from the army at fort hood. I found a job with a defense contractor in post war Kuwait. Sold my car to a local dealer in Killeen, packed up everything else into storage, and left for work. 4 months later, I'm leaving The Sultan Center in downtown Kuwait City after a Saturday morning breakfast and shopping run, and holy crap, there's, my car. Even had the spare key in the magnetic holder hidden under the body and my old Texas plates in the trunk. Thankfully the new owner was calm about the whole thing and we became close friends over the incident. Incidents like these make you wonder just how reputable and thorough automotive wholesalers and exporters really are.
Id say they had a duty to remove it before selling it. An Electrician from Texas gave me his old work truck. I took it to a body shop to have the decals removed. They where booked solid for a month so I scheduled a time to drop it off. During that 30 odd day wait to drop it off, I got in hot water for having an electrician's company name, phone number and license number on the sides of the truck when I wasnt an electrician.
I traded in an old Oldsmobile in Houston… Received a call from HPD a few days later asking me about a store robbery; said they had the getaway car on video and it would be easier on me to just surrender.😂
About six months before this story appeared on TV, a Middle Eastern man came to my front door and wanted to buy my old truck. I politely refused but I always wondered if that guy was a buyer for ISIS.
Probably a lot less sinister the cheapest car you could buy on a lot today is about 20,000 that's with nothing on it, big money. if you need a work truck in the developing world where incomes are a fraction of what they are in the United States your secondary market becomes super attractive because you can get cars for relatively little money
It’s funny to wake up and see this story again. That is my great uncle (grandfather’s younger brother) and our family still jokes about this incident regularly.
@ Oh yeah this was just a bump in the road all things considered. Aside from all the crazies coming out of the wood work and sending threats. I remember the FBI/HSI came out and after talking with them it became more of a protective thing then an investigation. But, everything has been fine and his company is still very successful.
Some lowly employee: "Hey, this thing is scheduled to be shipped over to Turkey. Who knows where it will end up after that. Think we should remove this guys name and number?" Middle management employee: "Nah, fuck it."
Yeah I used to work for ADESA (I think they're called openlane now) the story is this truck came through one of the auctions. An important thing to note is ADESA a paint and body shop on site to fix up vehicles before they go through auction. So yes this is 100% on the dealer being cheap.
Considering he was pulling in six figures a year as a plumber easy, and this ruined his reputation and business, I think a million dollars is far short of what he should be owed. That's not even considering the emotional distress he and anyone associated with him went through. It should have been 10 million at least
@Genesis23OPB stupidity is a global problem, not just an american one. Follow foreign news services talking about their domestic issues & you'll hear the same sorts of stories. I used to work in tourism and dealt with bus loads (literally) of people from all over the world who - at the moment I was dealing with them - had room temperature IQ's.
This is why you remove any signage before you sell the vehicle. I bought a truck from U-Haul one time and they removed EVERYTHING that said U-Haul. The tires actually had U-Haul in raised letters on them and they took a 4'' grinder and removed the letters.
While on foot patrol in Afghanistan came across a Ford Taurus with Texas plates and a just barely expired registration parked on the dirt street. Took pics but never followed up. Sure it has a similar story.
No it’s not excessive at all he lost his business and was harassed , more to the point though how stupid do u need to be to think that a plumber in Texas is sponsoring terrorist in the ME I mean seriously are there really that many stupid people in the USA
@@milospavlovic7520 it’s just baffling to me that people would think he sponsored isis and then went and advertised the fact on a vehicle like he’s Pepsi at the Super Bowl or something
It was likely word of mouth. If he was that concerned it would have been best to walk out without a new truck that day then show back up without the decals. The dealer would give you more for your trade at that point.
James is fantasizing about what kind of weaponry could be mounted on the Sambar. I can't believe he only sued for $1m. We Texans are often a simple folk.
Was this case before or after Texas imposed 250k liability limits? I am not a lawyer, just a keyboard warrior with little to no knowledge. Otherwise, a million was cheap. I mean, look what a hot coffee got that one lady.
@@ThewTheKooky If you're talking about the McDonalds lady, "hot coffee" is severely underplaying it. Her burns were so severe that it fused her fucking labia to her leg, that's not coffee that's lava. And IIRC, all she wanted originally was for McDonalds to cover her medical expenses, and they turned around and told her to go fuck herself and ran a massive smear campaign against her.
As extreme as what happened was, yes, negative consequences of not removing the decals were totally foreseeable, and the dealer should've definitely been on the hook.
I would have sued for a billion dollars since he had to shutdown his business and the amount of crap he was getting I would've wanted the dealership to go out of business if they refused would've gone to court and not accept the dealers offer I would've refused the dealers offer and actually go to court.
Build a platform around 16 inches above the bed floor. That area will be needed for wire routing and storage of spare parts, barrels, etc. Drawers could be added like "Decked" does theirs. 1/4 inch steel at a minimum for the platform and all associated supports. Those supports will need to have bolts through the bed to matching brackets that bolt to the frame with 1 inch wood in between. While under there, build a bracket for a small generator to charge batteries for radios, lighting, gyroscopes, etc. All work performed will be taking into account the rotating components of the installed fun maker so that things don't run into other things. Also account for pinch points and human stupidity during combat. Bonus points if it all fits under a quick release color matched (to the truck) bed topper shell. Happy motoring!
I can never find the vidoe anymore. But there is a video of a fighter in the syrian civil war who is shooting out of a hole in a block wall. After a few shots he leans back in and a few rounds sail through the wall he was just peaking out of. As he leans back you can see he is wearing a "Cooper Hawks 2012" shirt. Thats my high-school. Cooper high school in New Hope MN. I have that exact same shirt in my closet. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 ive always wanted to know the lore on how that shirt got on the fighter 😂😂
Even if it's not foreseeable that the truck would end up in the hands of ISIS, I'd argue that it is a foreseeable outcome that the truck could end up in the hands of someone who does something shitty with it while still showing those decals, and so causing reputational harm. At which point the dealership should be held liable: the difference between "it ended up with some local idiot who ran it into a building while drunk - it was a minor local scandal" and "it ended up with a fundamentalist group who used it for war crimes in the middle east - death threats and FBI investigations ensue" is only one of scale of damages.
Mark And Related Employees Should Have Recieved A Lot More Than A Million, They Should Have Recieved Millions! The Dealership Has/Had Liabilities Of Which Is/Was Insane And Gross Negligence! GOD Bless, Pa-Pow, Amen! 😎 🙉🙈🙊 🇺🇸
It seems like the worst part about this is the reaction of his neighbors. I mean, this wouldn’t really even be a thing if they had thought about things before abusing Mark. Frankly the entirely situation is f-ing hilarious and should have generated a good laugh.
If i remember correctly, texas law now requires dealers to remove all decals on any vehicles that are traded in before they leave the dealer or place of trade in. And to be documented by any means that the dealer or facility deems ok forms of documentation. Something about a FTC fine amount that i can't remember. And that the texas dealer board was fighting for 2 years to block before it instated and made law in texas.
When my employer sold our old vehicles, he had us go out and pull the decals off, largely because of this. I mean, it could end up in some local news story and be a bad time for us. As for Mark, assuming what he says is correct, he was specifically told by the dealership to not pull the decals off himself. To me that's the dealer taking responsibility to remove them. The dealer must have thought that there was something there because they settled.
I totally get where he's coming from. Years ago, my lettered work truck was visible in a scene from Amish Mafia and I started getting calls the day after it aired. Luckily, nothing like the calls Mark got, but still, it reminds you how quickly a little negative advertising works.
For anyone wondering the correct way to remove an old decal is a rubber wheel on a die grinder or drill. Wpuld have taken 30 seconds to do for the letters on that pickups door
Legend has it the plumbers truck was driven all the way to Syria, in the passing lane, 10% below the speed limit
Negative, it wasn’t a Chevy.
...and the left blinker was on all the way.
And had a pair of truck n*ts.
@@jeffscranton that's the only one that works, so he had no choice
Well. The left lane IS for crime.
I truly don't believe $1mil was enough. Dude had to close shop, lost his whole business and all those clients, he and his employees received countless death threats, and they had to leave town.
Agreed.
And it’s assuming the calls, harassment, and prejudices stopped since then.
Right? I was thinking 10 mil would be a decent starting number.
Hopefully all his employees also sued the dealership for their own "undisclosed sum".
People are so stupid. Why tf are they persecuting him if he’s not even over there fighting?
So, morals of the story: remove your decals before selling off your work truck, don't trust car dealerships and technicals are awesome.
pretty much
"Don't trust car dealerships", "Lawyers", Or "Politicians".....ALL words to live by.
@rodneyferguson446 never waste a boner or trust a fart. Another piece of sound advice 👌
@@rodneyferguson446 99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name. Our sexy host is one of the 1%.
any coherent person would've removed the decals before going to dealership. this was his own fault. he was lucky to get anything
The fact we can't make our own technicals with DShK in the USA is a 2A violation!
As a never-been pretend-only lawyer…(the best kind)….
I can confirm that you are correct. Join my class-action lawsuit.
@@wesleypipelayer7627where do we sign up and give you all of our money?
Perhaps your state does not allow it, but you can mount a machine gun on a vehicle where I live in the USA.
Ma Duece.
Who says we can’t?
I love that youtube reminds me of this story every few years. Its so nuts
I just assumed the ISIS fighters were from the Mark-1 Plumbing province of northern Syria.
Place has really gone down the drain
My guess is that they paid him about 500k and that his lawyer took a good piece of that.
Personally I think the dealership should have paid at least 2.5 million in damages.
My guess is they paid him $1.5M to avoid being labeled the worst Ford AutoNation in the country.
@@papimaximus95 that is a very low bar for them to slip under.
Why is anyone shocked that a ford dealership did something scummy and dishonest.
Just to keep it from going viral again. Imagine Marks lawyers asking for a trial. PURE INTERNET GOLD!
@@papimaximus95 if you think Charley Thomas cares about that, then you didn't live through their horrible late nite commercials in the early 90's!
During the day, they ran legit commercials.
Starting Fri at Midnight, they had a fixed camera, a spanish speaking announcer and car after car would pull up, stop at the camera. A smoking hot half dressed mexican girl would crawl out the car, smile and the next car would pull into the shot.
They'd fill a 3rd block of TV with ad after ad after ad.
I'll never forget the heavy mexican accent saying "Char-ley Tho-mas"! Ha!
All you heard about were those late nite used cars breaking down left and right.
If I was isis an got a f250 instead of a hilux I would go on strike! 😂😂
I think strikes were what they were trying to avoid. A hilux might as well be neon.
The huge gun in the bed probably gives any make/model away.
@@vincedibona4687 They needed a heavy duty chassis, they got a heavy duty chassis; courtesy of the State Department.
@@LFDNCHilux is heavy duty, Tacoma is pot metal ATV.
@@zelenizub2036 I don’t know enough about cars to do better than the lame joke I made.
Served with Mark Plumbing during the Great Trades war. Electricians wiped out my whole squad. 😢
The Carpenter is just the innocent man in the middle catching the crossfire.
@@gregkrueger331 No way, carpenters do too much meth to be innocent
@@reginaldcaine6161 that’s the roofers you’re confusing us with.
@@gregkrueger331 🤣
A/C guys orchestrated the whole thing
Mark.....Magnetic placard next time!
no go ...they are aluminum now
Unfortunately magnets don't stick well to newer vehicles because they are not solid steel anymore
Probably mostly aluminum
"Achmed, Should we paint out these infidel letters on the truck?" "Nah, Let's just roll with it."
The ultimate troll.
pretty racist!
It's like the reverse Chinese tattoo where you have a character saying "dumpling soup" but you think it has a badass name.
@@deeman1643 how is that racist?
"infidel" is the word that Christian crusaders used to describe Muslims.
Muslims do not use that word, nor is there an Arabic equivalent of that word.
Try reading on occasion 🤡
$1,000,000 was minimal, IMO! By the way... a great story!
So weird that people would assume he was sympathetic to terrorists.
Who knows where any of our old vehicles end up or what they are used for? Guns too for that matter.
Because they had thought he had sold it directly to them instead of actually finding the problem and root it out. Which people had blindly followed that "private sales" is "dangerous", despite not knowing the context. Sketchy gun sales is another reason why people had blindly lump all private gun sales "supporting" Cartels and Terrorists alike. Gun shows as well.
The truck is part of America AID to issis to spread demoncrazy in the middle east
There are tons of stories about people getting tickets because they sold their car and let the buyer keep the plates so they wouldn't get stopped on the way home. I remember one guy only found out because he got denied buying a gun because of an outstanding warrant. Apparently the buyer or whoever was driving it racked up a TON of tickets on red light cameras.
The average person is a moron.
Most people don’t know what the used car trade looks like. So I can see how conclusions could be drawn, but pretty basic research proves most of that wrong.
I’ll never forget this one, the plumber was from my home town specifically and when it happened I was out visiting family in Mississippi. I saw the news clip, recognized the area code as home, and remember feeling so terrible for the poor man. He didn’t do anything wrong, just got done over by a used car dealership.
I smell a commemorative TFBTV t-shirt sporting a Mark-1 Plumbing technical. I’d buy it.
James Sir, this might be yur mandate ✌🏽 Get u some!
I believe you!
I wanted to like your comment. But it’s sitting at 69 so I’ll let it be 🫡
Make the shirt happen, James. Proceeds could go towards Mark-1 Plumbing and/or James’ personal technical.
Cool t shirt design
James is SEETHING that it wasn’t his truck
By Allah, he must give them a taste of his shoe.
He would have painted it cameo, and stenciled "Booty Shorts Brigade" on the doors. :)
"Humorously grave consequences arising from vile negligence".... dam man, were we separated at birth?
“Mild” not vile
@user-bt6hh9yu1n nothing about shorty shorts is "mild", except those gay beers 🍻
Traded my vehicle to a dealership and didn't bother with the specific DMV papers stating I no longer owned it, cuz I thought I was dealing with a professional business, and they said they would handle all the DMV paperwork.
1 month later, I receive a bill from an out of state toll road that I owed them for an unpaid toll. They also said fines were added daily. They have no phone number to call and emails that took days to be responded too only stated that all I could bo is prove I didn't own it and send that paperwork in.
Long story long, I sent a copy of the title transfer, bill of sale, and other proof to their claim dispute address and after one more updated bill from them I finally never heard from them again.
Immoral of the story, don't trust anyone, document everything, and above all, in any response email to ass holes you shouldn't have to deal with in the first place, make sure to sign your email with "ingest feces and expire!".
That is the more polite version of "eat shit and die!".
I get it. Had something similar happen to me but with far better consequences. After desert storm i separated from the army at fort hood. I found a job with a defense contractor in post war Kuwait. Sold my car to a local dealer in Killeen, packed up everything else into storage, and left for work.
4 months later, I'm leaving The Sultan Center in downtown Kuwait City after a Saturday morning breakfast and shopping run, and holy crap, there's, my car. Even had the spare key in the magnetic holder hidden under the body and my old Texas plates in the trunk. Thankfully the new owner was calm about the whole thing and we became close friends over the incident.
Incidents like these make you wonder just how reputable and thorough automotive wholesalers and exporters really are.
Just when you think the bar for dealerships can't be set any lower, they find a way to lower it. Scuzzy!
Id say they had a duty to remove it before selling it. An Electrician from Texas gave me his old work truck. I took it to a body shop to have the decals removed. They where booked solid for a month so I scheduled a time to drop it off. During that 30 odd day wait to drop it off, I got in hot water for having an electrician's company name, phone number and license number on the sides of the truck when I wasnt an electrician.
You did not get in any trouble whatsoever for it
Im seriously being curious...so why did you get into "hot water" for that?
I don't believe you got in "hot water" that makes no sense at all.
Did someone try to hire you to work on their electric hot water heater?
I traded in an old Oldsmobile in Houston… Received a call from HPD a few days later asking me about a store robbery; said they had the getaway car on video and it would be easier on me to just surrender.😂
About six months before this story appeared on TV, a Middle Eastern man came to my front door and wanted to buy my old truck. I politely refused but I always wondered if that guy was a buyer for ISIS.
You know mossad and CIA does this type of shit.
Israel and the US fund and train isis
Probably a lot less sinister the cheapest car you could buy on a lot today is about 20,000 that's with nothing on it, big money. if you need a work truck in the developing world where incomes are a fraction of what they are in the United States your secondary market becomes super attractive because you can get cars for relatively little money
“Stars in its eyes, high explosives under its tunics” 😂😂😂😂😂
It’s funny to wake up and see this story again. That is my great uncle (grandfather’s younger brother) and our family still jokes about this incident regularly.
How's he doing today? Did he ever get his life back to normal?
@
Oh yeah this was just a bump in the road all things considered. Aside from all the crazies coming out of the wood work and sending threats. I remember the FBI/HSI came out and after talking with them it became more of a protective thing then an investigation. But, everything has been fine and his company is still very successful.
Some lowly employee: "Hey, this thing is scheduled to be shipped over to Turkey. Who knows where it will end up after that. Think we should remove this guys name and number?"
Middle management employee: "Nah, fuck it."
Should of asked for 10 million
Should’ve or should have, not “should of”.
A million dollars? He is crazy.
I'd have sued them for at least 20 million with a 10 million out of court settlement offer.
Yeah I used to work for ADESA (I think they're called openlane now) the story is this truck came through one of the auctions. An important thing to note is ADESA a paint and body shop on site to fix up vehicles before they go through auction. So yes this is 100% on the dealer being cheap.
Considering he was pulling in six figures a year as a plumber easy, and this ruined his reputation and business, I think a million dollars is far short of what he should be owed. That's not even considering the emotional distress he and anyone associated with him went through. It should have been 10 million at least
I’m am constantly shocked at the obtuse stupidity of the general public and their lack of critical thinking skills.
welcome to the USA
Remember, in the U.S., they are taught to react solely on emotion and thinking outside group think is wrong.
@Genesis23OPB stupidity is a global problem, not just an american one.
Follow foreign news services talking about their domestic issues & you'll hear the same sorts of stories.
I used to work in tourism and dealt with bus loads (literally) of people from all over the world who - at the moment I was dealing with them - had room temperature IQ's.
Some are so dense, that light bends around them..
@LUCNUKEM but there is no nation where people love to rage for days instead of thinking two seconds first like the USA
Most companies strip all the decals off of their vehicles before selling them.
And slap theirs on even when you state you don't want any stickers put on your new ordered truck.
This is why you remove any signage before you sell the vehicle. I bought a truck from U-Haul one time and they removed EVERYTHING that said U-Haul. The tires actually had U-Haul in raised letters on them and they took a 4'' grinder and removed the letters.
If Mark-1 Plumbing didn't start selling merch online, well sir I just don't understand meme culture anymore.
It’s a 6.0 powerstroke it won’t last long in Durkastan
Durka-durka! 😄
Lol! It probably had issues when it was traded in
At least they didn’t buy a 6.4
While on foot patrol in Afghanistan came across a Ford Taurus with Texas plates and a just barely expired registration parked on the dirt street. Took pics but never followed up. Sure it has a similar story.
No it’s not excessive at all he lost his business and was harassed , more to the point though how stupid do u need to be to think that a plumber in Texas is sponsoring terrorist in the ME I mean seriously are there really that many stupid people in the USA
In my experience, roughly 80% of all people are absolute fucktards.
"Are that many stupid people in the USA"
Are there that many sushi restaurants in Japan?
@ fair enough lol , I don’t mean it as an insult to the many intelligent people in the USA I just find it amazing that people would do this
The story was seen likely by millions of people. Even if 0.1% make this wrong assumption and call, that's still a lot of calls
@@milospavlovic7520 it’s just baffling to me that people would think he sponsored isis and then went and advertised the fact on a vehicle like he’s Pepsi at the Super Bowl or something
This HAD to have been the inspiration behind the Shane Gillis skit.
One of those "life is stranger than fiction" moments. He may have a real case if he has it in writing that the company was going to remove his decals.
He settled for $$$
It was likely word of mouth. If he was that concerned it would have been best to walk out without a new truck that day then show back up without the decals. The dealer would give you more for your trade at that point.
The opening with David Muir made me nauseous. Send terrible reporters with the next truck.
Since the salesman told him the decals would be removed, foreseen or not the dealership liable for the damage to the business and his reputation.
James is fantasizing about what kind of weaponry could be mounted on the Sambar.
I can't believe he only sued for $1m. We Texans are often a simple folk.
Was this case before or after Texas imposed 250k liability limits?
I am not a lawyer, just a keyboard warrior with little to no knowledge.
Otherwise, a million was cheap. I mean, look what a hot coffee got that one lady.
@@ThewTheKooky If you're talking about the McDonalds lady, "hot coffee" is severely underplaying it. Her burns were so severe that it fused her fucking labia to her leg, that's not coffee that's lava. And IIRC, all she wanted originally was for McDonalds to cover her medical expenses, and they turned around and told her to go fuck herself and ran a massive smear campaign against her.
Wow, wasn't expecting a James Reeves x Jimports collab!😮
As extreme as what happened was, yes, negative consequences of not removing the decals were totally foreseeable, and the dealer should've definitely been on the hook.
A million dollars OR get my truck back.
I would invest the settlement money into my new business called “Technical Plumbing”
$1M might have been enough in 2013 but now, there is no way that is a enough.
COMES NOW: Me when James does his lawyer stuff
Ford's next special edition F250, the Jihad package. 😂
Sold in Dearborn Michigan and Minneapolis Minnesota
Your narration is top notch bro you have mastered the 4 inch inseam and the English language kudos sir
Only a million? I'd have gone scorched earth.
That the FBI questioned Mark & what his secretary was called had me LMAO
1 million for that much hell is chump change. I would have sued for 10 million haha
I would have sued for a billion dollars since he had to shutdown his business and the amount of crap he was getting I would've wanted the dealership to go out of business if they refused would've gone to court and not accept the dealers offer I would've refused the dealers offer and actually go to court.
I'd like a video covering how to convert a truck into a technical. Just in case a person ever needed to know.
Build a platform around 16 inches above the bed floor. That area will be needed for wire routing and storage of spare parts, barrels, etc. Drawers could be added like "Decked" does theirs. 1/4 inch steel at a minimum for the platform and all associated supports. Those supports will need to have bolts through the bed to matching brackets that bolt to the frame with 1 inch wood in between. While under there, build a bracket for a small generator to charge batteries for radios, lighting, gyroscopes, etc. All work performed will be taking into account the rotating components of the installed fun maker so that things don't run into other things. Also account for pinch points and human stupidity during combat. Bonus points if it all fits under a quick release color matched (to the truck) bed topper shell. Happy motoring!
Mark should own that dealership. Thats the only fair recompense.
In situations like this, never use a round number.
James looks like Fred Ward from the movie tremors
A million is not to much to ask, he did more than that a year as a plumbing company
Tons of Teslas that are supposed to be destroyed by insurance companies are showing up in Ukraine with the original owners info still logged in.
If only people weren’t stupid enough to believe a local business would intentionally send their truck out there
Unintentional humor of this is off the charts
Worst part about this is the ppl who called him to threaten him are allowed to vote, buy guns, drive cars, go outside. 😮
Mark looked like he was ready to retire. Got a nice bonus and a good story.
This truck NEEDS to be on ur next "if guns were vehicles"
Another question?
How did ISIS get hundreds of brand new tan Toyota Tacoma pickups that were built in .............?
A few hundred is easy peasy. ISIS was taking over oil rigs and selling oil to whoever didn't mind getting their hands dirty.
US state department facilitation, if not outright gifting
I don't like frivolous lawsuits but that s*** is funny as hell. He should get it a free truck at least
I remember hearing about this on the news!
What a great idea for subject.
1 million is cheap for what that dealership did
1 mill is nowhere near enough. Should be free cars and $5 mil
Mark should have sued for a years salary of Colbert, paid by Colbert for defamation.
The fact that this poor guy got thousands of death threats tells you how simple minded many Americans are. Very sad and disturbing.
Love these legal videos. Keep em up. 👍
It’s not enough. It should be sued for more than 1 million.
A-10 goes Brrrrrrrrrrrr... & F-250 goes chug-chug-chug-chuga
He declared a total jihad on leaking plumbing.
Best damn content on the interwebs!
Perfect delivery
Mark should've asked for 10 mil
What a wild story. You should write this up for Field Ethos magazine.
Since the dealership told him to stop picking at the decal, they would take care of it. Then dealership did not follow through. They should lose
I can never find the vidoe anymore. But there is a video of a fighter in the syrian civil war who is shooting out of a hole in a block wall. After a few shots he leans back in and a few rounds sail through the wall he was just peaking out of. As he leans back you can see he is wearing a "Cooper Hawks 2012" shirt. Thats my high-school. Cooper high school in New Hope MN. I have that exact same shirt in my closet. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 ive always wanted to know the lore on how that shirt got on the fighter 😂😂
Even if it's not foreseeable that the truck would end up in the hands of ISIS, I'd argue that it is a foreseeable outcome that the truck could end up in the hands of someone who does something shitty with it while still showing those decals, and so causing reputational harm.
At which point the dealership should be held liable: the difference between "it ended up with some local idiot who ran it into a building while drunk - it was a minor local scandal" and "it ended up with a fundamentalist group who used it for war crimes in the middle east - death threats and FBI investigations ensue" is only one of scale of damages.
Mark And Related Employees Should Have Recieved A Lot More Than A Million, They Should Have Recieved Millions!
The Dealership Has/Had Liabilities Of Which Is/Was Insane And Gross Negligence!
GOD Bless,
Pa-Pow, Amen!
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It seems like the worst part about this is the reaction of his neighbors. I mean, this wouldn’t really even be a thing if they had thought about things before abusing Mark. Frankly the entirely situation is f-ing hilarious and should have generated a good laugh.
Jus great James!!!
If i remember correctly, texas law now requires dealers to remove all decals on any vehicles that are traded in before they leave the dealer or place of trade in.
And to be documented by any means that the dealer or facility deems ok forms of documentation.
Something about a FTC fine amount that i can't remember.
And that the texas dealer board was fighting for 2 years to block before it instated and made law in texas.
F250 with a 6.0 powerstroke, what a Chad move.
When my employer sold our old vehicles, he had us go out and pull the decals off, largely because of this. I mean, it could end up in some local news story and be a bad time for us. As for Mark, assuming what he says is correct, he was specifically told by the dealership to not pull the decals off himself. To me that's the dealer taking responsibility to remove them. The dealer must have thought that there was something there because they settled.
I totally get where he's coming from. Years ago, my lettered work truck was visible in a scene from Amish Mafia and I started getting calls the day after it aired. Luckily, nothing like the calls Mark got, but still, it reminds you how quickly a little negative advertising works.
This is fantastic content
He did not ask for enough money.
I wonder if Mohammed ever called Mark about some hot water heaters
Oh James. The little photo montage with arrows at 4:45. 😂
I remember seeing this story on one of the big news networks like ABC or NBC years ago. I'm glad he got something from the settlement.
What’s hilarious is that he thought he needed to get rid of his truck, but it’s working totally fine in war. Lmao
I just now found this story. Too funny..
The ZPU-23-2, the Russian off spring of the Flak 38. Both are rocking platforms..😊
For anyone wondering the correct way to remove an old decal is a rubber wheel on a die grinder or drill. Wpuld have taken 30 seconds to do for the letters on that pickups door
Based on what others have sued for, he should have asked for more.
$1000000 isn't enough.