IT SOUNDED A LITTLE FLAT...

[samhexum]

A California woman and her daughter are suing a New York City parking garage and a couple of its employees over a violin that got run over.

 

Beth Bergman filed the suit in Manhattan on Friday.

 

She claims she and her daughter were taking their possessions out of a car at the West 51st Street garage in August. They had put the expensive Degani violin in its case on the ground.

 

The suit says an employee drove over the instrument and caused damage in excess of $85,000.

 

A call to the garage company was not immediately returned on Sunday.

 

An employee named in the suit, Victor Asitimbay, told The New York Post, “We didn’t do anything wrong. If you have something very special, you don’t put it on the floor.”

[+ nycman]

A) wonderful thread title

 

B) if you leave a $85,000 violin on the ground where someone can

run over it in a parking garage....you are the one negligent and you

are the one at fault.

 

C) our courts need to cut this crap out....it’s an embarrassment to

our “legal” system.

[+ purplekow]

Perhaps if you park cars for a living you shouldn't run over something on the ground with someone else's car. There is plenty of fault to go around here. Still, which seems more culpable? A Placing an item on the ground in a parking lot B Running over a case as a parking lot attendant.