[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.

[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!