Blunt force trauma

You work in this biz long enough and you get to realizin' that wind is only capable of a certain kinda damage.


Sent in by @Coujones from 11th and Walnut, Philadelphia

Nervous system

Spotted by @Coujones on 9th and Walnut, Philadelphia

Lodged complaint

This looked like a particularly angry breakup, spotted by reader @WhitneyBender in Philadelphia.

Flutter by

It's been awhile since we've captured the elusive corporate broken umbrella. Reader Alyssa notes that what looks like a delicate butterfly umbrella is really covered in Modell's logos.


Broad and South, Philadelphia

It was certainly fun while it lasted

In deeeeeeed.

Captured by our Baltimore correspondent, Moira.

Where the wind gets off scott free

Roisin's third corpse received its death sentence outside Boston University's Law School Tower. Witnesses say the defense presented a weak case.

Sitting out this round

Roisin spotted this delinq pondering its future outside Boston University's Student Center. We're thinking Liberal Arts major.

Pick one

Convenience, Value, Soaked.

Boston broken umbrella correspondent Roisin went on a hot streak earlier this week. Here's her first of three.

Window to the soul

A brave warrior surveys the situation, and pauses for reflection.

Captured by umbrellarazza @SweenIT in Manhattan

Walkin' with George, IV

We were on 9th and Market when @GeorgeWard, that bold stump, asked if I even knew what it felt like to wear wet denim all day so I knew I had to do something really really big if I was going to win.

Check Mate.

Pleasure passing the blocks with you @GeorgeWard. Hope we can do it again soon! (Just checked the Doppler - we probably will.)

Walkin' with George, III

Around 12th and Market we started experiencing a bit of vertigo.

@GeorgeWard, however, had little time for our shenannies and soldiered on.

Walkin' with George, II

Our second stop with @GeorgeWard was on 11th and Chestnut, where we can now admit we became a LITTLE dramatic about the recent climate situation.

Walkin' with George, I

We walked a few blocks through Philadelphia with reader @GeorgeWard on Tuesday night. Things started out friendly and rule-abidingly enough, but rest assured, deteriorated quickly.

Stay tuned.

First, from 11th and Locust

What happens when you mix your beverages

Tweets @RobinBogg to us from soggy London!

Where broken umbrellas come to die

Caught in our Twitter stream by @PattyRandall from Brooklyn, New York.

Thanks for letting us cross post, Patty!

sNOw time to waste

Perhaps the decomposed skeleton of the carnage sent in by @csembrot earlier this month? Calling all brellentologists!


via reader Jen from Portico Row, the 900 block of Spruce Street in Philadelphia.

Clear(ed) for landing

This does *nothing* to help our efforts to get in with the 'ista set. Blerg.

Snapped and sent in by super snapper, @WhitneyBender from Philadelphia.

Hit & Run

Our intrepid umbrellarazza, @BellaFoxx arrived on the scene too late to catch Soaked offender, and far too late to help save this hero.

Sent in from the corner of Jackson Ave and 11th Street, foot of the Pulaski Bridge, Long Island City, Queens NY

The Olympic Code

Thou shalt not be photographed with any beverage that is not an official sponsor. Or else.

Spotted by reader Jason on Broad and South Street, Philadelphia

Let's see what the Russian judges have to say about this landing

Definitely, definitely out of medal contention.


Spotted by @jillybeans3 in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia.

Red Rider

Reader @Moodyest found this subway hawker outside the Broad and Fairmount station in Philadelphia.

Snowzen

Another broken snow umbrella spotted by Jason in snowy Philadelphia.

11th and Market Street

Ditched

Love this one from 17th and Carptenter, sent in by Philadelphia reader @Parkview

Struggling to find the upside to this situation

Spotted by Jason in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square

Plaidcap hyjinx

#6th and final featured carnage from Jen's amazing graveyard map.

Thanks so much Jen!

Dark passenger

#5 featured in Jen's graveyard montage.

Butt out

#4 featured in Jen's graveyard series.

Environmental studies flunky

#3 featured in Jen's graveyard series.

34th and Sansom, Philadelphia

Rainy day blues

#2 featured in Jen's mother lode.



34th and Sansom, Philadelphia

Trashtastic

#1 featured in Jen's mother lode

34th and Sansom, Philadelphia

Cartography

Check this out!



Eagle-eyed reader Jen sends in a Graveyard Map, along with individual shots of broken umbrella carnage that we'll highlight throughout the day. LOVE!

34th and Sansom, Philadelphia

What's your excuse?

Said the broken umbrella to the Wendy's cup.

Sent in by @WhitneyBender from Philadelphia

Light and sweet

Caffeinated mess sent in by @melissadipento from South PHiladelphia.

Lonely hearts' club

So close, yet so, so far.

Terrific "snowtograph" (<-- NOT claiming ownership of that)Sent in by first-time umbrellarazzo @csembrot from somewhere in the Philadelphia tundra. Thanks Chris!

Sno-caps

But not the delicious, movie theater kind kind

Sent in from Manhattan by reader Cath

A very still life

This beautiful shot sent in by @Stumphouse from Charleston, South Carolina.

Not growing anywhere for a while

Broken umbrella: "Really? Right here? Right next to this gorgeous, tall, GROWING tree?"

Sent in by 1st-timer @Tossed_Salad from 16th and Spring Garden, Philadelphia

snOMG

Sent in by reader @SweenIT in Brooklyn after Saturday's non-snow event.

Snowpocalypse 2010

Broken umbrella: "Suuuuure Ben, you had a bunch of great ideas about eyeglasses, rocking chairs, and electricity, but not one innovation to help a 'brella out?"



As you may have heard, the East Coast got a little snow today. Special thanks to reader Alyssa who had a camera handy while she braved the storm in Philadelphia.

That's a wrap

Lovingly wrapped and secured after the fatal injury, yet discarded so thoughtlessly? Or did the fatal injury occur during non-use? So many questions here.

Another send in by @WhitneyBender from Philadelphia.

Curbed appeal

The neighbors must love this.

Sent in by @WhitneyBender from Philadelphia

Cold shoulder

Another from @gaillary and the magnetic trash can in Rittenhouse Square

Taking root

Broken umbrella: "The nectar of life for you; my final undoing."

Another spotted by @gaillary in Rittenhouse Square

Frosty

As our umbrellarazza @Coujones says, "When you're down, they may just take another swing."

Well said, well said

The last shred of dignity

Taken from the Vernon Jackson Subway station, where @BellaFoxx serves as umbrellarazza mayor.


Special thanks to @BellaFoxx for this and today's previous submissions taken last week during the East Coast's torrential worstish not-snow.

Umbrella on the ground, umbrella on the ground

Lookin' like a fool with your hair a mess.


@BellaFoxx sends a second submission from right under the Pulaski Bridge in Queens

I think we're done here

Sent in by @BellaFoxx from the graveyard that is Jackson & 11th Street, Queens.

Little Jack Brella

Sat on the cellar
Dripping with regret and rain

Spotted by 1st timer @MikeyIl from 5th and McKean, Philadelphia

Backyardigans

Broken umbrella: "Did someone say snack?"

Our South Carolina correspondent, Ginny spied this traveler while she was pulling out of her driveway last week for work. Loyal readers may remember that this isn't all that uncommon an occurance, as spotted by @SweenIT in Queens.

The one thing the Times Square Info Center lacks

Replacement umbrella, please?

A terrific stuffed and broken corpse sent in by Alyssa, from 42nd and 7th, right in the heart of Times Square.