Umbrella attack

An umbrella attack is a coordinated assault on someone or something that can lead to a variety of emotions and reactions. An umbrella or parasol is designed for many different uses. In an umbrella attack, the umbrella is used in a manner that may do harm or even cause laughter. Sometimes the attacks are physical and harm the one being attacked and at other times the attack can be non-physical and used as a warning or threatening tactic.
History of umbrella attacks can be dated to the umbrella’s origin. In the past one hundred years attacks by use of an umbrella have been recorded or reported more frequently.
Sometime in the 1930’s, in Baltimore, Maryland a man by the name of Frank A. Reichenberg was arrested or “Held For Assault” by the Baltimore Police Department for an umbrella attack on another man in front of his home. This victim was seriously harmed and do to lacerations to his head from the attack, the man was hospitalized.
Other and more recent attacks include celebrities who have used their umbrellas to attack the paparazzi. In 2007, Mike Fleeman wrote for People magazine, an article that reports on an umbrella attack by Britney Spears against a photographer’s car. She apologized and explained that she was preparing for a role in a movie.
Another, more recent umbrella attack was written about Katie Price, who allegedly attacked the paparazzi with a wet umbrella.
Umbrella Attacks have also been carried out by nature. Large beach umbrellas, often due to high winds, have become potentially deadly weapons as they flip and flop with the winds along beaches crowded with people. These beach umbrellas often are large, heavy and have long spiked metal or wooden poles used to hold them in the sand.
On a lighter note, umbrella attacks have also been carried out on prank television shows around the globe. In these umbrella attacks that are considered funny, a couple of people will randomly walk into a crowd of people and promptly open their umbrella causing the herds of people to become confused and move as a group outward away from the umbrellas.
Umbrella attacks have also been reporting in crime stopping. Boston.com and the Associated Press report that a valet attendant at a Boston Condominium attacked with an umbrella, a suspect who jumped into a woman’s car with a knife and threatened to kill her. The heroic valet attendant saw that crime and proceeded to use an umbrella to attack the suspect and save the woman.

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