I had a chance to talk to the old man while we worked together. Apparently he had grown up in horrendous child abuse. Stuff I really don't want to type out and I can only marginally relate to. This sort of upbringing primes a person to be victimized as abusive manipulative people are attracted to people like that. They may not search them out in a calculated conscious way but they search them out just the same. Also, the child that's been victimized has a hard time as an adult being able to defend themselves. I learned how to fight back at 14 which got me in legal problems with juvenile justice sentence but since they couldn't actually pin anything on me that was criminal I just got sent away for a year. If That was me in that guy's position or any other person who doesn't put up with shit there'd be hell to pay for taking his umbrella. We stopped by and told him they were lying their ass off about it being against city code to have an umbrella in your front yard. Total bullshit.