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Posted on 09/22/2006 10:02:43 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Man's lost gnome attends Steelers game
Thu Sep 21, 4:34 PM ET
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Allen Snyder's garden gnome is apparently out of jail and now traveling the country. The 14-inch tall red-and-white statue disappeared from Snyder's Morgantown yard in the spring, and Snyder has since received three letters claiming to have been written by "Gnomey."
The latest letter, which Snyder received this week, included photos of the gnome in the company of Steelers fans attending Pittsburgh's football home opener.
"You never took me to any games," the note said. The letter ended: "Have to go now. Boarding a plane. Now, finally, broadening my travels."
An earlier letter included a request for bail money and included what appeared to be booking photos of Gnomey and another of the gnome in the back seat of a police car.
Snyder has no idea who's pulling this prank but said his short list of suspects includes several gag-loving friends.
The plight of his gnome has gotten a lot of attention. Snyder says people are always asking if he's heard from Gnomey.
"I never thought it would go this far," he said.
The story has even caught the attention of officials at Travelocity, which uses a roaming gnome in the online travel agency's advertising.
"While we know that your dear friend, Gnomey, can never be replaced, we're sending the enclosed Roaming Gnome to keep you company in his absence," wrote Michelle Peluso, president and chief executive officer of Travelocity, based in Southlake, Texas. "Hopefully your friend will find his way out of trouble and back to your front yard soon, although we can't help but admire his sense of adventure and love of travel."
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Did Joey Porter's dogs eat it?
Well, if he couldn't attend a WVU game a Stillers game is the next big thing.
SG, maybe your garden gnome is up for a ROAD TRIP!
Pictures, dude, pictures!
Now that's funny!
But is it traveling through Travelocity??
The Roaming Gnome?
PING
Damn straight..WVU is going undefeated this year...
Mark my words!
"While we know that your dear friend, Gnomey, can never be replaced, we're sending the enclosed Roaming Gnome to keep you company in his absence," wrote Michelle Peluso, president and chief executive officer of Travelocity, based in Southlake, Texas. "Hopefully your friend will find his way out of trouble and back to your front yard soon, although we can't help but admire his sense of adventure and love of travel."
GMTA...
It would be more fun to kidnap someone else's and take him to the concert tonight and hockey game tomorrow. Ours is always sleeping!
Wasn't this storyline in the movie Amelie or something like that?
The WVU-Louisville game will be awesome. hopefully Brohm is back by then. The other RBs have stepped up nicely since Bush went down.
Yep,
She took her father's gnome and he got back pictures from all over the world.
Convinced him he needed to get out and travel himself.
(I loved the movie!)
It was a really delightful film. Even if it was French.
I forgave it that.....
It's one of those "I'm in a schlump, need to smile" movies.
This is a gag that has been pulled before (on someone else I think). Some guy (with bad taste in lawn ornamentation evidently) happened to hear a car drive in, looked out the window, and guys in ski masks were grabbing his lawn dwarf and speeding away before he could do anything.
Around a year later (if memory serves for all this), there was a knock on his door late one night. There was a bag which had the dwarf, plus numerous photos of the dwarf at various famous places, such as Stonehenge, Great Wall of China, whatever. What a weird hobby.
Of course, I also used to work with people who pulled a similar trick (not with a lawn dwarf, but rather some kind of goofy figurine he kept in his office) each time one of them took a vacation. Soooo, there wasn't much of a mystery to the disappearance. But it was pretty amusing.
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