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A Houston Car Salesman had to Fight for His Life after a Test Drive Gone Terribly Wrong

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By January 7, 2016 at 9:19 am

A car salesman in Houston, Texas had to fight for his life when a “customer” on a test drive physically attacked him in an attempt to steal the car. But the car salesman, Jose Martinez, wasn’t going down without a fight.

Jose Martinez, 22, is a car salesman at Gillman Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in Houston, Texas.

On Jan. 4, Martinez would be left to fight for his life after a test drive gone terribly wrong.

Around 6 p.m. on Monday night, a “customer” came to the dealership and asked Martinez if he could test drive a Dodge Challenger.

During the test drive, the “customer” drove down a dark, small road. Martinez became suspicious of the “customer” and asked for the keys to the car. Moments later, two other people showed up and attacked Martinez.

Martinez was tied up with tape and his own belt before being thrown in the trunk, which he was able to get out of almost instantly.

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“I asked them why they were doing it while I was in the trunk. They told me to stop asking questions,” Martinez told KHOU. “They were taping me up and I said do you want money? What do you need? Let me go you can have the car. They said ‘No, you’re coming with us.'”

Luckily, Martinez had the awareness to call his general manger to let him know what was happening.

He even sent a friend his current location and activated GPS tracking on his phone so people would know where he was.

At some point, the kidnappers stopped the car because they heard Martinez escaping.

He knew that it was his chance to escape and he took it.

Martinez popped the trunk from the inside and was chased by the three men. That’s when one attacker dropped a gun. Martinez picked it up and fired at his attackers.

Once he fired at the suspects, it forced them to RUN AWAY.

Here’s a “reenactment” of Martinez’s epic escape.

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The three suspects ran from Martinez and stole the car which was later found abandoned. Authorities are still looking for the three men, but Martinez says he never got a good look at their faces.

Check out the news report below:


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By Adriana Venegas January 7, 2016 at 4:00 pm

When Mark Hentemann and Seth MacFarlane set out to create their new animated series “Bordertown” — a sort of Hispanic “American Dad” — they wanted to take part in the anti-Latino, anti-immigration conversation that is relevant now — only they wanted to do it with the type of humor found in their other series like “Cleveland Show” and “Family Guy.”

However, after only two episodes filled with in-your-face jokes and too-subtle cultural relevance, the critics have spoken: “Despite the show’s apt timing, the satire gets swallowed up by the hyperactive joke engine. There are so many cutaway gags that the show feels bored with itself. The social humor is curdled and mean,” said The New York Times.

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And The Hollywood Reporter said: “More than anything, the early episodes of Bordertown feel like the launch of MacFarlane’s American Dad!, which premiered as a Family Guy clone…  It took a couple seasons for it to develop into its own occasionally wildly imaginative series and it’s not unreasonable to imagine Bordertown could do the same… check back in in two years if it survives.”

Ouch!

Read more about what the critics have to say here and here.

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