Black, red, soaked all over

The weekend's awesome weather enabled us to welcome another new umbrellarazzi via Twitter, @Michellejoni from Manhattan who acknowledged that the number of umbrella casualties was alarmingly high. (indeed).

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Flash mob caught by @_samantha_lee_ during a walk through SoHo.

UPDATED: Also spotted by @jacobsoboroff!

UPDATED X 2: @LenDamico emails us this link

UPDATENDUM: This location has now reached New York Tourist site status. Reader @Cwallin @ us a Tweet from Jim Gaffigan. Yeah, that Jim Gaffigan.

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

Courtney's rainy day: part 3

Spot 3: 40th and Market Street, Philadelphia.



We're starting to think @Coujones leaves for work with a little more buffer than we do.

Also, we want to make sure that anyone who Googles "What was that woman taking pictures of, 40th and Market, Philadelphia" gets their answer.

Triptych

Look, I know I've had a bit of a downward spiral lately, but I'd appreciate a little privacy for my martyring.

No?

Still no?

I see then.

Special thanks to London correspondent @RobinBogg for chronicling this lost cause.

8 crazy nights

Hope our absentee owner parked close to the perimeter.

@GeorgeWardTwittered this our way from Laurel Springs, NJ.

Splash zone

Sent from @BellaFoxx. We like how you can see the rain that has fallen around our corpse.

General Ts-uh oh's

A great late submission, these Chinese takeout leftovers Twitteredby @GeorgeWard from 11th & Arch, Philadelphia.

Dumped

Talk about a fall
from grace. Once held in esteem.
Now here with the plebes.


Our California correspondent@Howardweaver checks in with this soldier first spotted at the Amador Country transfer station and then given a proper burial with full military honors.

Not happy hour

Superwoman, @Jerseyshorejen took a minute to think of us on her walk back to the car after completing Philadelphia's 1/2 marathon last weekend. We're completely humbled.

Midnight stroll

Via our Argentine correspondent, @jpstamm.

Snap trap

The day started fine
We stopped for coffee, and then
Something... I just snapped.

The first of two sent by @WhitneyBender

Hasty retreat

Ipod's fault, music
blaring. He almost missed stop
Yet I'm left behind.

A second sent in by @WhitneyBender in one day.

All aboard

@SweenITsent this over the wire from Grand Central Station

What's your sleep number?

1?
5?
10,000 dead leaves?

@Parkview sent this skeleton along to us from Malcolm X Park in Philadelphia

Well-spoken

Umbrella Chief, Robin Bogg, sent this London crash victim our way via Twitter.

Bat nap

First-timer umbrellarazza Jacquelyn sends us this snoozer from New York's subway system.

Pop quiz, you long-time readers. Did Jacquelyn's snap trigger your memory to a similar one sent in from another umbrellarazzi earlier this year?

Fall apart

You love us when we're
Pretty. Colors, cov'rage, shade.
Fall burial ground.


@whitneybender found this poor fella asleep in Philadelphia

Ruin

California-based reader @howardweaver sends us this one, which he spotted during a recent visit to Rome while walking between the Coliseum and the Forum. We can't remember from our Latin classes who was the Roman God of rainfall.

Nosedive

Another gem from @gaillary during her visit to Manhattan.