The Good News Thread

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How a Long Island Car Crash Saved a Family in Ukraine

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At first, Gia Savocchi of Long Island thought the Instagram message she received late last week from a man with a name spelled out in Cyrillic letters was a scam. Then she saw the photos that Serhiy Lutskyi sent of the dark blue 2014 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen that she had reluctantly sold for scrap more than a year ago. And what she learned next was extraordinary: Lutskyi told her that the junked car had ended up in Ukraine and enabled him and his family to escape the horrors of war. “The car arrive miraculously,” Lutskyi told Savocchi via a translation app after he tracked down the 36-year-old dog behavior specialist through ownership papers she left in the glovebox. “I [repaired] it, put my wife and two children in it and left for the Czech Republic.” “Wow! This is incredible. Omg. My car has a crazy exciting new life,” Savocchi replied. “My car has a family and is an escape vehicle.” “Nice car,” said Lutskyi, who is 28. “I took good care of it,” Savocchi said. “A man hit me in a parking lot while I was eating a bagel about to get my coffee. It had some damage insurance wouldn’t fix.”

It's a long story, but a junked car ended up in Ukraine, where a young man with a family got hold of it. He fixed it up and used it to get his family out of Ukraine, and ended up in the Czech Republic, where his 1-year-old daughter is now getting good medical treatment for a rare genetic disease.

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/pXVGdCZ