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Ransom note demands cheesecake in exchange for garden gnome’s freedom
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Posted on 06/14/2021 11:42:20 AM PDT by mylife

The kidnapping of a cafe’s beloved garden gnome in the Portobello area of Edinburgh, Scotland, has locals mesmerized.

The gnome went missing in early June from the Butternut Squash Café, which was soon sent a bizarre ransom note demanding no money, but cheesecake.

The cafe posted a pic of the note on its Facebook page which read: “We have your gnome. If you want to see him again leave 2 cheesecakes when you shut the cafe, We will be watching.”

The cafe refused to bow to the specific demands and instead left two pieces of shortbread outside the eatery with a note on social media that read: “Kidnappers your treasure awaits…”

The thieves were not impressed and sent another ransom note threatening: “Shortbread!!!!! We asked for cheesecake!!!!! You have 24 hours or your gnome gets dusty binned.”

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To: dfwgator

simple.


21 posted on 06/14/2021 12:03:03 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ransomnote

You demand cheesecake?................


22 posted on 06/14/2021 12:06:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: mylife

a friend of mine left his jaegermeister deer head shaped shot glass at our local watering hole and i kidnapped it and took pictures of it every week at different bars throughout ocean city maryland for 4 months and another friend of ours published the pictures in their local newspaper every week...

drove him nuts...


23 posted on 06/14/2021 12:07:13 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: humblegunner

Sadly, I can no longer has cheesecake................


24 posted on 06/14/2021 12:07:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: heavy metal

:)


25 posted on 06/14/2021 12:08:15 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: JoSixChip

Oh, my God. Because he cracked a joke about Jesus and cheesecake?!
Get a grip.


26 posted on 06/14/2021 12:09:46 PM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
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To: JoSixChip
But now, I just flat out don’t like you.

I'll take you off the Christmas Card list.

Wish we had a block feature ob FR.

Me too, you clearly need your little eyes to be shielded
from anything that you don't like and can't understand.

I hope you are shielded from as many bad things as your keepers
can manage. You should take time to thank them, Snowflake.

27 posted on 06/14/2021 12:10:31 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: mylife; 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; DoodleBob; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...

DANG!


28 posted on 06/14/2021 12:12:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Red Badger
Sadly, I can no longer has cheesecake.......

Who said?

29 posted on 06/14/2021 12:12:48 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

YEEEEWWWWW VACCCIIIINE MUUUUUTANTS!!! YOU SHOULD GOOOO TO A MAARRRRS COLONIEEEEEEE!!! MEEEEEHHHHHHHH!!!

/sarc


30 posted on 06/14/2021 12:13:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: mylife

Sounds like a marketing plot to me. 8>)


31 posted on 06/14/2021 12:13:36 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: mylife

see up thread, gnomes drink beer.

Does beer go with cheesecake?


33 posted on 06/14/2021 12:16:38 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: mylife
The perps get around. From 2012...

The shadowy world of the sinister Gnome Liberation Front

34 posted on 06/14/2021 12:17:16 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: humblegunner

My cardiologist doc and my wife......................


35 posted on 06/14/2021 12:20:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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To: Gen.Blather

Several years back when student were coming in for the last day of school, hundreds of gnomes were on their schools front lawn. Apparently as a senior prank gnomes from the whole district found themselves there. The local police requested those missing gnomes to stop by to collect them.


36 posted on 06/14/2021 12:22:22 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: mewzilla

37 posted on 06/14/2021 12:22:50 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Flick Lives

conceivably a russian imperial stout in a chocolate cheesecake..


38 posted on 06/14/2021 12:25:21 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Red Badger
My cardiologist doc and my wife.

Cast off the chains they have laid upon you and be free.

39 posted on 06/14/2021 12:25:22 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Unfortunately, there’s a 8 inch scar down the middle of my chest that reminds me every day that is where it came from.................


40 posted on 06/14/2021 12:27:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
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