PARKING GARAGE EMPLOYEE RUNS OVER $85,000 VIOLIN

A California woman and her daughter are suing a New York City parking garage over a violin that got run over. Beth Bergman claims she and her daughter were taking their possessions out of a car at the West 51st Street garage last August. They had put the expensive Degani violin in its case on the ground. They say an employee of the garage drove over the instrument and caused damage in excess of $85,000. An employee named in the suit, Victor Asitimbay, told The New York Post the daughter was “crying like somebody died.” He says, “We didn’t do anything wrong. If you have something very special, you don’t put it on the floor.”
* Oh, please, let me play my pity violin.
* It was a Classical instrument, but now it’s Baroque.
* Just curious – was the driver also smashed?
* And who gives their little daughter an $85,000 violin?
* And who wants to touch anything that’s been sitting on the ground of a New York parking garage, much less stick it under your chin?
* Maybe if they’d sprung just a little more for a better violin case.
* This wouldn’t have been such a tragedy if only the girl had taken up the accordion.