PRIMARY SOURCE
This is the plain-language edition of the second U-Haul. Same facts, same grades, none of the record numbers, nothing put into the colored grade boxes. Every claim below is stated again on the cited edition, with the receipts and the video timestamps attached.
A LEGO resale company was asked why its man had a moving truck at the store it took over. It said the truck was there to tow a camper. The man rented two moving trucks that autumn, three weeks apart, both under his own name. The company showed the public only one of them. On the odometer, the two trucks drove the same trip.
When a former employee of the company’s Eugene store said a truck had come up from the Salem area full of Star Wars LEGO, the company had an answer ready. That truck was from October, it said, and it belonged to a different store owner. The truck on the night of the takeover was for something else. First the second in charge said there had been no truck at all. Then the story changed, and a camper appeared to explain it. On camera, the company’s chief executive gave the account in his own words: the man flew in overnight, picked up a rental truck, and stayed in a camper trailer that had been moved to Oregon ahead of time, “in anticipation of the potential hostile takeover.” He said the man slept in it for a couple of hours before heading to the store.
For the night of the takeover, the company produced a rental contract. A fifteen foot truck, picked up in Eugene at 10:17 in the morning on November 14, and returned to Eugene just after midnight. The bill came to $216.09, which works out to 186 miles driven. The company said the truck was there to tow the camper. The contract rented nothing to tow with: no tow dolly, no trailer equipment, nothing.
The October truck the company only talked about. It never showed the paper for it. This site has it now. A seventeen foot truck with a hand dolly, rented by the same man in Eugene at about ten in the morning on October 24, a round trip. The bill came to $232.35, which works out to about 180 miles. The company says this truck carried a different store owner’s inventory to Eugene. It has never said who that owner was. And October 24 is the same day the company says the man went to the store to scout it.
Eugene to the Salem area and back is about 140 miles of highway. The October truck drove about 180. The November truck drove 186. Almost exactly the same. One of them the company calls cargo. The other it calls a camper. On the odometer they are the same drive.
The company’s reason for the truck is that a rental pickup could not tow the camper, so a moving truck could. That is backwards. A full-size pickup tows more than one of these box trucks, not less. A box truck is built to carry things in the box, not to pull a big travel trailer behind it. The rental company’s own rules do not even allow towing a trailer it did not supply, and its trucks are not fitted with the brake hookup a trailer that size needs. And the November receipt rented no towing equipment at all. Whatever the truck was for, the paperwork is a cargo receipt: a box, and in October a dolly to load it.
Take the company at its word that a camper was moved to Oregon before the takeover. A camper does not move itself. The man, by the company’s own account, flew in overnight, so he did not drive a camper across two states. The two men who took the store over, and who together own the Eugene store where the collection later showed up for sale, are named together in the company’s own filings. Who towed the camper to Oregon, and in what, the company has not said, and neither receipt answers it, because neither truck could tow it.
The man rented no moving truck for the next twelve months. His next rental is a year later. Yet over those twelve months and into the following year, LEGO sets matching the seized collection went up for sale on the Eugene store’s own website, a few at a time, month after month. Whatever moved, moved around the takeover, not in a steady stream afterward. The selling was slow. The moving was not.
On camera, the company’s chief executive said a timeline “makes absolutely zero sense.” He said it right after laying out the camper story. The two receipts are the company’s own timeline. A box truck with nothing to tow with drove the same road as a truck the company admits was cargo, three weeks apart, both under the same man, and the public was shown only one of them.
To be fair: a rental record shows the truck, the dates, the miles, and the equipment, but not what was inside either truck. The company’s position is that the November truck towed a camper and the October load belonged to a different, unnamed owner. No court has ruled on any of this. Everyone named is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and nothing here is a finding that anyone committed a crime.
The company showed the internet one moving truck. Its own story needed two, plus a camper it says was waiting in Oregon before the takeover began. The truck it would not show is a cargo truck that drove the same road, on the same account, three weeks earlier, on the day the company says its man went to look the store over.
Where this comes from. Two primary sources carry this piece: the man’s own rental records for both trucks, and the company’s own franchise filings that name the two men who took over the store. The chief executive’s camper account, the change from “no truck” to “there was a truck,” and the November receipt are quoted from the video where the company laid out its story. All of it is attached, with links and video timestamps, on the cited edition.
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