[MA/HT] Innocuous Improvised Weapons

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Originally Posted by Icelander

The persona would be a fairly normal motorist or tourist, a middle-aged guy of the kind who has a multi-tool, duct tape, string, WD-40, notebook, pencil, disinfectant, aspirin, petroleum jelly, Ace bandages and a range of other mostly harmless things that make up the small version Personal Basics and the most basic of first-aid gear on him at all times.

A flashlight seems to fit with that. Not a 2-lb one, more like a 0.5-lb one.

I think the umbrella--particularly the "unbreakable umbrella" referenced above--causes the least amount of suspicion. You walk into a rest stop or office building with a flashlight in your hand, people will wonder why you have it. Nobody wonders why someone has an umbrella on their person, unless it's Arizona in the middle of a drought--but even then, it would just be peculiar, not "he's going to use that as a weapon."