[rattrap]

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

[John Beresford Tipton]

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

[Khurkris]

When good gnomes go bad...