Dear AGO Friends,
I just shed in tears soon after start reading this thread. Thank you, Thank you for reminding and taking your time writing greetings regarding my 33 y/o birthday celebration.
I consider myself truly close (connected) to each one of you and until present we were (still are) only virtually connected:
- but I believe in something bigger, I feel you all in my mind and heart.
We are all moved, feed and motivated by the same detailing 'gasoline'.
God,
I'm sorry for what happened to me. Wish I could be stronger now, forgive my human being limitations.
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Here's what's happening to mine and Family's life at present date:
Not long ago, I
contemplated my new garage makeover which had set a strong benchmark in my detailing achievements. Many of you were 'by-my-side' sharing happiness from that date.
My eXtreme Garage Makeover plus some detailing work
Well, in that thread I said someone decided to put a 14 (fourteen) floor, 44 meters high just next to my garage door.
It's now ~20m high, 24 more meters to go
View From inside my Garage, ('BACK VIEW')
Started from Scratch (sub floor), so it took till 20 meters high (1 year and a half) to start becoming EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to be close.
In fact, builders told us it was safe because they were taking all safety care of everything.
We someway 'adapted' to the situation of having a building (construction) next door, and in a mind lapse became unaware of the great danger we were facing.
We're Humans, We adapt to oddest situations, we are sons of adaptation, we are fruit of evolution.
Annunciated Catastrophe:
Although daily we had objects falling issues (construction has it's problems), without victims or major damage, we couldn't be fighting all day and everyday against construction workers because of smaller falling things, we wouldn't handle to complain every single minute all the time to be scratched by them.
It was over my head all this time:
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Minutes before what you're going to see bellow, my little darling 3 y/o Helena took this selfie picture with me, although she always insists coming by me while I'm working I tell her to keep inside. Not mainly (but also) because of building but because she understands I'm working with cars not playing, I use tools and so, not a place for children anyway.
Can't help but let her 'Picture, Papai!, Picture!'...
It was just a selfie, she went inside then.
I was detailing the trunk of a Citroen Aircross, my wife had just arrived with vacuum and started cleaning Driver's side of the car.
She was bent with her head/upper body inside the car, back/lowebody exposed.
I HEARD A STRONG CRANK "POWWWWWWWWW!", and the roof of garage started falling over her back. My wife screamed, I could just scream back for her to GET OUT!, we couldn't understand what was happening but thought about building falling on us!
Here's the object that was thrown over us (considered thrown since they weren't using the supposed safety measures they alleged and it was hammered by someone from the seventh floor directly over my wife).
It's positioned were it fell just after hitting the roof and kicking outside.
Could be over any of us at any moment, anytime. How long I was feeling safe but left at lucky's hand?
Talking about lucky, the object hit the only concrete part of the roof and kicked outside: by 1cm to the right it would have passed over the roof and directly over her back. 1 cm. Notice this close shot:
The roof contents destroyed were projected downwards and hit my wife on her back, LUCKILY she escaped with only a 'small scratch'. Thank GOD! I wasn't hit (physically).
That moment I saw my dream being drastically turned out into a nightmare.
Customer car was also hit in the accident. Luckily (Again!) Customer plentifully understood what happened and was really much more concerned about me and wife than the car itself.
Picture order in this thread is not 'fully coherent in a temporal manner' because some I took a day after (roof pics), and this floor pic I took just after taking the car to safety, when I felt I could risk going there to take it out before something worst happened.
To date, we already fixed the car and garage roof, my wife goes fine. Material damage I truly don't consider. Fixing those things haven't solved any of my issues.
At the moment of the accident I called 911 (190 in Brazil) and started a journey for justice that is being lived intensely EVERYDAY till this day.
I now have such a big problem to solve, and I have a life to build again from scratch.
Luckily, we are alive. Unfortunately, we couldn't develop our detailing passion through the last few weeks since we are not willing to be victims of such irresponsibility again.
Enough for now, please ask any detail if you are interested in something I've not said.
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Here's the message I received today from Forum, noticing my Absence.
"Hello Tato it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?"
I know I should have been stronger than all this (I must be) - life goes (will go) on, but I just couldn't come before here to say anything Detailing Related other than what happened to me and my family.
At this moment my life is stuck at the paradigm, Detailing for a living when I don't have a life? Doesn't make sense. Time will cure.
Today I'm 33 year's old, Happy Hearing from you.
Physically, I'm 101 percent;, trying to maintain my integrity. Morally, I'm considered dead.
Not the first time I'm down, will not be the last but it's the
Present of situation. Future, we never know, but wish our best from it.
I did my best to keep you all out of this 'Personal Problem' so my silence was to avoid making even more suffering from my suffer.
Put it out, let's see if I feel relieved at least from trying to take it all to myself.
Thank you so much for consideration, and I really appreciate your attention.
Wish to come back soon with better news.
Kind Regards, from Brazil.
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