Unbreakable umbrella protects against assailants, watermelons

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2009/09/14 @ 6:36 am
Category General

Watch a man use the Unbreakable Walking-Stick Umbrella to chop through a watermelon at 1:12…

The Unbreakable Umbrella works just as well as a walking stick or cane but does not make you look funny or feel awkward. Whacks just as strong as a steel pipe but it weighs only 1 lb. and 11 oz. (775 g).

   * Legal to carry everywhere

   * Never raises suspicions

   * Does not make you look silly (no strange looks if carried by an able-bodied person)

Our Unbreakable Umbrella has no unusual parts, no more metal than an average umbrella, it does not arouse suspicion, can be carried legally everywhere where any weapons are prohibited, unlike a walking stick it does not cause strange looks if carried by an able-bodied person, and it does protect from rain. Anyone who can use a stick for defense can use this umbrella.

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8 Responses to Unbreakable umbrella protects against assailants, watermelons

Doctroid on September 14th, 2009 at 7:49 am said:

Anyone who’s read “Un Lun Dun” by China Mieville finds this deeply worrisome.

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jso on September 14th, 2009 at 10:01 am said:

Unfortunately for anyone who lives in an arid part of the world (Southern California, personally), you’ll still look silly when carrying an umbrella.

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- Becky Stern on September 14th, 2009 at 10:06 am said:
  
  Yeah, true, perhaps they’ll start making them in white as a parasol edition.
  
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- I have no mouth and I must scream on September 14th, 2009 at 12:37 pm said:
  
  Even in SoCal people can have an umbrella in the car. I kept one(large golf type) in my car until the kid got a hold of it need to get a new one.
  
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Colecoman1982 on September 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pm said:

IANAL, but I have researched the law regarding blunt objects for self defense (in my case, I was curious about those collapsible tactical batons).

Many states have laws against carrying “bludgeons” in public, where the definition of the term “bludgeon” is generally applied to anything you carry around with the primary use of hitting people with it. Whether or not something is considered an illegal “bludgeon” has nothing to do with what type of object it is, it has to do with what your intent was in having it on you.

A carpenter that gets assaulted on his way to work and beats someone with one of his hammers can claim that he was carrying it in order to use it at work. A guy that gets in a fight at a club and pulls out the ball-pien hammer he always carries on him will have a hard time rationalizing what reason he would have for carrying a hammer on him other than to beat people with in the case of a fight.

The same might hold true for this project. Between the specific suggestion in the instructions that the intent is to provide the owner with low-key weapon to any discussions the owner might have about it with friends, there could, easily, be enough evidence to suggest that it’s an illegal bludgeon.

I know it may seem weird that people are legally allowed to carry knives around but not blunt weapons (it was weird to me) but that seems to be the way, at least some, states have their laws written. You may want to check your local law before you decide to carry something like this around on a regular basis.

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rto on September 14th, 2009 at 2:29 pm said:

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sam on September 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pm said:

By my count he’s worked up at least 50 years bad luck in just that one video….

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Bobby R on September 18th, 2009 at 6:49 pm said:

It is impressive that the hinges hold up and the umbrella still opens after being used to hit like that.

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