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Tragedy Pulls Small Businesses Together

By Miss Cellania in Pictures on Dec 24, 2007 at 5:39 pm


Pedro ToalaPedro Toala is paying the price of a prank. A group of kids tipped over a portable toilet in a park while Toala was inside. He was left with a broken back, permanently paralyzed, yet he forgave those who did this to him. Cher Przelomski, co-owner of the Planning Factory International, was inspired by Pedro’s story and began a project involving many businesses in the Wilmington, Delaware area. They remodeled Toala’s split-level home to turn it into an accessible dream house. The Pedro Project was completed in time for Toala and his family to return home on December 15th. Link to story. Link to a slideshow of the finished project. -via Fark

(Photo credit: Suchat Pederson/The News Journal)


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  1. Britt
    Dec 24th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    Tipping portable toilets is a right disgusting prank. Poor guy.

  2. Denita TwoDragons
    Dec 24th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    I was doing good until I saw Pedro Toala crying with joy in his beautiful house.

    Then the screen went all blurry...

    --TwoDragons

  3. sickb*stard
    Dec 24th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    Kids do stupid stuff. I myself tipped a porta-john or two when I was a lad. Had I known that it could possibly result in someone being paralyzed, I probably wouldn't have done it.

  4. MoniA
    Dec 24th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    This is such a great story.

  5. kati
    Dec 25th, 2007 at 10:40 am

    i drive by "the pedro project" every day on my way to work and was wondering what it was all about! i'm glad to see the community pull together for such a good cause.

  6. snackcakes
    Dec 26th, 2007 at 10:15 am

    "via Fark" -- wow, are they going soft?

  7. whatthehell
    Dec 27th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Why is everyone warm and fuzzy over a story where some kids maimed an innocent man?

    I feel sorry for him, but who should be fixing his house, who should be wiping his ass every day for the rest of his life - is those shitty kids.

  8. Shay
    Feb 24th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    I honestly don't see the lighter "inspirational" turn of this story as any real consolation for this man. Cold hard justice for those punkass kids (a good tossing in prison perhaps?) would warm my heart more.

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