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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's the story about the Texas City plumber whose Toyota truck was used by ISIS for those that haven't read it

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/us/terror-truck-lawsuit/index.html

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Holy shit thanks for the laugh

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

did he win that? why didn't he just remove the decals himself?

[–] bizarrocullen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dealer advised him not to remove it because it might ruin the paint, and he won the lawsuit

[–] overat8@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The article doesn't mention whether or not he won the lawsuit. Where did you get the info on him winning the case?

Edit: I found the article - He won an undisclosed sum of money

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/plumber-whose-decaled-truck-went-to-syria-settles-lawsuit

[–] Conradfart@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Almost as lazy as the guy who didn't bother to read the article, amirite?

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

think you need to edit your comment mate, "almost as lazy" as an opener only works if I had called him lazy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Thats the secret. You're always in NCD.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't matter to Toyota one bit.

Their initial sale isn't to the middle east or in any way driven by the middle eastern market and tends to be completely done on the merit of the vehicle.

The trucks in the middle east are almost all second hand to the level some people were horrified and surprised when the vehicle they sold in the US, still bearing their logos and name, showed up in videos of insurgents and straight up terrorists in the Middle East.

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

You're forgetting all the free advertising when your cars show up in the news all the time /s

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

That does help the resale value though, which has a knock on effect to sales.

[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

Did shittytechnicals make it over to here, yet?

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well you never see new trucks, only ever like 90s Hiluxes. So really it's Bob's Used Cars who's licking their lips

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of 70 series cruisers, which look older than they are because Toyota has been making them for thirty years straight at this point.

[–] Doods@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

Bob's Car On A Stick

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they ever make a Toyota Lowlux? Just something not so damn bright.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Toyota: we need a model that literally scrapes the ground, the lowrider market is untapped

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

All sorts of armed rebels in the Sahel too

[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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