Crowd Mistakes Umbrella for Rifle - Panic Ensues

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So they mistook an umbrella that looks kind of like a sword for a rifle. Wow. Though IIRC this is the same place where neo signs of cartoon characters sent the whole city into a fit of anti-terrorist hysteria. There is deep, deep stupidity over there.
 
this happened to a college kid on campus, they freaked out, the police rolled everyone out...for an umbrella...
 
So they mistook an umbrella that looks kind of like a sword for a rifle. Wow. Though IIRC this is the same place where neo signs of cartoon characters sent the whole city into a fit of anti-terrorist hysteria. There is deep, deep stupidity over there.
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hey now, to be fair......the electronics were all wrapped into a bundle with duct tape and they were placed in prime bombing locations ( in subways, under bridges, ect.)...and there really wasnt a mass hysteria or mass evacuations.....that all was mostly media hype.

now was the response they got a little over-kill......yeah kinda......

but i can almost guarantee that if they were a little more professional looking and the locations a little less suspicious, no one would have thought anything of them.
 
this is a prime example of why we have to educate our kids about firearms. all this 'ban them all, get them out of tv shows, blah blah blah' turns people into timid sheep who flee at the sight of fully loaded umbrellas.
 
The gentleman carrying his umbrella should be able to sue the nutjob that tattle tailed on him! Deformation of character, humiliation, wrongfully accused.. unreal
 
This reminds me of wearing my old brick phone on my belt. The “brick” phone was one of the early cell phones and was roughly the size, shape and weight of a brick. Once, an a little mom-and-pop convenience store, I noticed that the clerk was staring at my right side and looked very nervous. I looked down and saw that the phone, under my jacket, was making a huge bulge right at my hip. She must have thought I had a Howitzer under there. And it was a lady with her approx 8 year old daughter, all by themselves running the store. Poor gal looked like she wanted to run screaming from the place. Once I put two and two together I just unzipped the jacket and let it fall open, revealing the phone. You could almost hear the sigh of relief. She gave me a big smile while she rang up my purchase. I’ll bet I had been wearing the phone like that the whole winter without it even occurring to me what it looked like. Maybe I should be glad I never got a mall locked down, but I’m not sure we did that sort of thing back then.
 
I wonder if you get caught with a compact umbrella in a bag you will be charged with carrying a concealed weapon? I guess you could push the extend button and poke someone in the eye.
 
Cosmoline said:
So they mistook an umbrella that looks kind of like a sword for a rifle. Wow.
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That's a double mental malfunction if I ever saw one. They weren't even educated enough to tell the police that a samurai or possibly a ninja was prowling the mall. :rolleyes:

Now all we need is people frantically calling 911 screaming about bullets when they see a tube of lipstick. :)

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Haha, I hope my sarcasm was obvious :)
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Only if mine was. ;)

FROGO207 said:
Betcha the participants of the original Boston Tea Party are doing revolutions in their graves tonight.:banghead:
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WOO-HOO! Renewable power source! If we and they keep it up, we could declare our independence from foreign oil. The cost? Only our freedom. :uhoh:
 
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This is on the stadium at Fenway Park. They aren't the brightest bunch in the country.
 
you know.....for the longest time....i thought that sign was an add of a musical about gun runners.........

if wasnt till a few years ago that i actually figured it out.
 
What's hilarious is not only that they mistook an umbrella for a rifle, but the umbrella is supposed to look like a Samurai sword, not a gun, in the first place. Somehow a Samurai sword looks like a rifle to them? Epic fail.
 
I think anything scary to those people equals a gun, size determines whether its a handgun or a rifle.
 
They see something black and long and freak out. This isnt the local communal showers, this is a mall when the weather is bad outside, demanding of an umbrella even. Some people are just wound up too tight.
 
Openly carrying umbrellas is legal in Illinois, but don't get caught concealing that umbrella...sorry, just had to get in a jab at my home state.
 
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