In the height of all of the terror threat activity and following on from Saturdays knife attack at Leytonstone tube station, a South Londoner today was the focus of a Twitter surge of much needed banter and relief after leaving his house with a novelty umbrella shaped like a samurai sword and having his morning train held up by police officers.
South London Marketing entrepreneur Raymond Brown was travelling to work in Stockwell this morning when a train that he was on was held up at Deptford Overground station as police officers responded to a call from the public about a man with a dangerous weapon and wanted to inspect the umbrella for themselves. The train full of early morning commuters burst out laughing as the object under scrutiny was opened up and revealed as nothing but a weapon against the rain.
The incident was posted up on Twitter with the headline ‘So Police just held up my train for 10 minutes because they thought my umbrella was a Samurai Sword’ and at the time of publishing has been see by over 200,000 people worldwide and received 2,283 Retweets and 2,129 Likes. should we be glad of the police’s vigillence in these times or hard on Raymond for choosing the Firebox ‘Samurai Umbrella’?
To check out some of the banter and comments follow Raymond Brown at Twitter @notblackbutbrwn
