Umbrellas and Crime: Hide the Bank Robber and Collect the Money

It has been over two years since we last reported the use of an umbrella in a bank robbery, but it has happened again! According to the San Francisco Examiner:

On a clear and sunny Saturday, a careful crook walked into a bank in North Beach toting an open umbrella and walked out with handfuls of cash, police said.

The crook used the open umbrella to conceal himself from surveillance cameras during the heist at the Bank of the West on Columbus Avenue just after 9 a.m.

And if using the umbrella for concealment was not enough, this robber had the audacity to involve the innocent umbrella in the crime itself: "The tellers handed over cash, which the suspect collected in the open umbrella before fleeing, police said."

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