Resident crashes R$ 205 thousand car in the garage and blames the manager: “Taken by fury”

A resident of a condominium in the Bigorrilho neighborhood, in Curitiba, went viral on social networks by recording a video (at the end of the text) in which he holds the manager responsible for the damage to his own car, which he had just collided with a column in the garage. The publication, reported by GMC Online, reverberated on Tuesday (30) and accumulated thousands of views, fueling a debate about who is responsible for the loss.

In the images, taken by the driver himself shortly after the accident, he states that the condominium administration should have installed protective foams in the corners of the garage columns to reduce damage in any collisions. According to the resident, the manager would have mentioned, in a meeting, that she had a sample of this material, which would not have been installed.

“Look what happened to my 0 km car. I just hit this column. All cars hit this column,” he says in the recording, in which he introduces himself as a “full engineer” and directs a series of offenses to the manager. The allegation that other vehicles had already collided at the same point was not confirmed by the building’s management.

In the caption of the publication, the driver states that the vehicle, described by him as “brand new”, is valued at R$ 205 thousand and writes that he is “taken by fury” and with an “anger” that “will not be controlled”. He also declares that he intends to expel the manager from the condominium, without detailing how he intends to do so.

When contacted, the manager — who has held the position for 16 years — said that the disagreements with the resident predate the accident. According to her, in an interview with RIC Record, the condominium owner lives alone, has no family in the building and usually creates conflicts related to the management of the building. For her, therefore, the garage episode would be another chapter in an already worn out relationship, and not the origin of the friction.

In situations like this, experts in condominium law consider that the condominium is usually only held responsible for damage to cars in the garage when there is proof of failure or negligence of the administration – such as lack of maintenance or adequate signage in the circulation areas. Without this proof, they assess, the cost of repair tends to fall on the owner of the vehicle himself, even if he considers the space poorly designed.

Until the last update, there was no record that the case had been formally taken to court or to a condominium assembly. The episode was initially reported by Banda B and echoed by local press outlets.