A damn shame
 

A damn shame there isn't more to your post....

FIDDLESTICKS!

Crushing news. Crushing.

what? a $1,000,000 violin doesn't come with a case?

That should boost the value of the remaining violins.

Violin / Violence.......When will it end?



"I had it over my shoulder in its case and I fell down a concrete flight of stairs backward,"

good catch JR - I missed it.

Insurance fraud?

Not a terribly sturdy case, evidently.

Violin cases are meant to protect from dings, not major trauma like falling down a flight of stairs. They'd have to be twice as big and lined with inches of foam to protect a violin from something like that.

who the hell carries a million dollar violin over their shoulder like its a gym bag?

it's only fair that the prick should get looks, money and talent, but have the clumsiness to be able to fall backwards down steps. I hope, for the love of all that is fair and good on this earth, that he has a really tiny pee pee.

I've heard that the difference between a violin and a fiddle is that a violin is carried in a case and a fiddle is carried in a sack.
In hindsight, that might not be such a bad idea, for a priceless, irreplaceable instrument.

Although I guess if he had hindsight he wouldn't have fallen over backwards.

If I had broken a million-dollar violin that can't be replaced.... I'd probably be using the remaining strings to strangle myself to death.

Even if he does, hot women will line up around the block.

I don't think I'd loan him a Stradivarius after he busted his Guadagnini due to carelessness.

What idiot walks around with a million dollar ANYTHING over their shoulder?

the kind of idiot that is trying to commit insurance fraud after damaging his instrument in a way that his insurance won't cover.

Thats exactly what I thought, too

Another damn shame, with pictures.

This happened last year. Movers lost control of this $88K piano as they took it off the truck.

I'm not sure if I feel sorry for the guy. I just wish I had a Stradivarius to not lend him.

@glatt: that last photo reminded me of this.

It's hard to believe they'd be turning a piano like that on it's side to be honest with you. That would really fuck up the allignment of the keys if it went over a few bumps in the road.

Of course it'd need tuning after arrival, but still, I wouldn't be transporting a piano like that.

They've got a compression lift at the back of the truck if you closely at the pics.

Man, those guys suck at doing the YMCA dance.

They should take lessons from these guys:

SCF!

SCF?

Swallow
C___
First

I'm even more confused now...

Ha, funny, Liverpool frustration.

Swallow Coffee First, as in, you should have warned people to swallow their coffee before viewing your link, as anyone who didn't is likely to have just spewed it all over their monitor.