Villagers baffled by gnome attack

Ananova ^ | 26 June 2003 | Unknown

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Villagers baffled by gnome attack

Villagers were baffled when they awoke to find their homes invaded by garden gnomes.

The fourteen home-owners couldn't believe their eyes when they saw there lawns covered with the statuettes

Dopey pranksters have been blamed for the incident, which left residents mystified as to who brought them into Brattleby, Lincolnshire.

The gnomes - normally a target for burglars who swipe them from gardens - were unwelcome visitors to the conservation village, claims one man.

Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator Mike Spencer said he awoke on Tuesday morning to see one of the gnomes in the garden.

The 59-year-old chairman of Brattleby parish council said: "It is a bit of a mystery. It is such an odd thing to happen.

"The people down the far end of the village say our end is the posh end and I have a sneaking suspicion it is someone from the other end of the village.

"I absolutely detest gnomes and the majority of people living in the big houses would not want gnomes in their gardens either."

He said he had collected up a number of the little men and hidden them in his garage but he said everyone had taken the prank light-heartedly.

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Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator Mike Spencer said he awoke on Tuesday morning to see one of the gnomes in the garden.

I think a certain neighborhood needs a new watch coordinator.

[Weimdog]

This story is my favorite -

Gnome find is not gnormal, make gno mistake

August 10 2002

Puzzled French police are investigating after a mushroom hunter stumbled on an unexpected find in the middle of a pine forest in south-west France - 101 garden gnomes.

The gnomes, standing 10 to 80 centimetres high, were arranged in a circle, some of them on tree trunks, in the woods in Podensac, south of Bordeaux.

"It was very nice to look at, very tastefully done," said the local police chief, who has put out an appeal for anyone who believes they might have lost their figurines to come and identify them, if possible with photographs to prove ownership.

A shadowy organisation calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Gnomes warned last spring that it was waging "a mass campaign" against the "oppressors and enslavers" of garden gnomes, the local newspaper Sud Ouest said in its report on Saturday. - Sapa-AFP

[rattrap]

Have you heard the one about the guys who stole their neighbors gnome and took him to euorpe. They took pictures of the gnome at famous locations and sent the pictures back to the owner, finally returning the gnome on their return.

Classic.

[John Beresford Tipton]

The gnomes were probably attracted by a
large flock of plastic flamingoes.

[Mears]

I remember that story and I agree,it was very clever.

I didn't wake up to gnomes but one morning about 25 years ago I woke up to about 20 for sale signs in my front yard. I thought it was pretty funny but announced to all in my household I would not think it was funny the second time.

My house was full of teens at the time;enough said !!!

[Weimdog]

The link to the story you're talking about is here -

http://members.aol.com/upfront89/pages/rufus.html

It's great!

[rattrap]

That's a different one, but the idea is the same. The one i'm referring to was taken to europe, i distinctly remember the gnome at the arc de triumph(sp?).

[Tijeras_Slim]

ping

[TrebleRebel]

I remember a frog stolen from the yard of an elderly couple somewhere on the east coast. He "traveled" the globe and sent them postcards and pictures from all over the world, then finally came home in a chauferred limo. I read about the prank in an online newspaper, but I can't find anything when I search. I do remember seeing them interviewed on TV when the prankster was revealed.

[jriemer]

The horror!

Now "prankerstering" kids and "practical-joking" adults have fallen into the grasp of the Gnomes. See how they have beguiled humans to transport the normally-immobile Gnomes to travel our world? We are becoming their beasts of burden as they use our tools of commerce and communication to destroy us!

We must grow wise to their clever, cloy and "happy gardener" ways elst we will be plowed under. The vilest evil comes sugar coated...

Remember, this is the ceramic shell a demon.

[Khurkris]

When good gnomes go bad...