The Washington Post reports on a new instance of umbrella-carrying malefactors: This time in Potomac, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC, according to this poetic news account:
More important to our readership, the Post does note that "The account did not say whether anyone saw the umbrella unfurled." Thus, we can be assured that this criminal, at any rate, did not use the umbrella itself for nefarious purposes, but was preserving it for its primary purpose--protection from the rain!
[Aside: In another report on the same crime, the headline writer says that the robber "wielded" the umbrella, but the text gives no support, merely stating that he had a black umbrella with him.]
The rain falls, according to the Bible, “on the just and on the unjust, ” and a man who robbed a bank in Montgomery County on Friday may have taken that idea into account.
The M&T Bank in Potomac was held up about 9:40 a.m. by a robber who seemed specially prepared for the wet weather conditions prevailing in the Washington area at that time.
He had a handgun, Montgomery County police said. But he also carried, according to the description released by the police, an item not normally included in descriptions of robbers. During the robbery, police said in a statement, he “carried an umbrella.”Unfortunately, the Washington Post is not familiar with the Brolly Blog and its crime reports involving umbrellas, not to speak of the use of umbrellas as weapons. For, as faithful readers would know, this is far from the first, and we do not purport to be complete in our recording. Nevertheless, the Post tells ITS readers that "But over the weeks and months, few descriptions of robbers have included umbrellas."
More important to our readership, the Post does note that "The account did not say whether anyone saw the umbrella unfurled." Thus, we can be assured that this criminal, at any rate, did not use the umbrella itself for nefarious purposes, but was preserving it for its primary purpose--protection from the rain!
[Aside: In another report on the same crime, the headline writer says that the robber "wielded" the umbrella, but the text gives no support, merely stating that he had a black umbrella with him.]
