August 21st, 2009
South Korean-born violin virtuoso Hahn-Bin accidently left his $500,000 18th century Giovanni Francesco Pressenda violin in the back of a New York City cab.
It was only after the exhausted fiddler had taken a shower in his Chinatown apartment that he realized what had happened.
City taxi officials say a GPS device in the cab led to the quick return of the instrument to the Korean violinist on Monday.

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