He called the police because he had seen a woman disguised as a "housekeeper" who was going to commit suicide, but it was not what he seemed

It was a moment of tension. From your window saw a woman who was committing suicide by throwing herself on the 11th floor, dressed in the housekeeper costume of the novel and Margaret Atwood's series, The servant's tale (or The tale of the good). Casey McCormick warned his colleagues in the office and called the police.

"There are so many things happening in the country's politics that I would not be surprised if someone makes such a decision, that's why the situation has become very scary," he said. he explained to the media and another message posted on Twitter. Fortunately, when the police arrived, everything was a false alarm. I was not a disguised woman, what McCormick saw was an umbrella, installed on the neighboring terrace.

"Today, I thought I saw a woman dressed as a" housekeeper "about to jump out of a building, called 911," wrote Casey on Twitter, where he shared the view from his window and the resolution of the police: it was an umbrella.

The news has reached all the media and the terrace owner has found his umbrella on thousands of blankets. "I discovered by reading the site of the NYPost"he said Clarin the man, married to an argentine woman, leader of a multinational.

The American newspaper confirmed to the New York police the veracity of the story. The authorities indicated that they had received a call at 11 am, near West 27th and Park Avenue, telling them that they could access the building and that they had verified that the nobody "was an umbrella.

The police also sent Casey a message saying "blessed be the umbrella", with reference to a sentence from Atwood's novel. The same phrase used in their official Twitter account to thank the notification and send a message to the public. "If you have doubts about the call to 911, do not hesitate! We take all calls seriously and in the worst case, we go home with a beautiful story, "they wrote.