I wonder which one she grabbed.....
Posted on 04/15/2005 3:20:09 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
LONDON (AP) -- A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday. Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.
"I grabbed the first thing that came to hand - one of my garden gnomes - and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled.
"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."
A neighbor alerted police who arrived shortly afterward and arrested the intruder.
He added: "Our usual advice would be not to get involved, but to contact the police straight away," said a spokesman for the Devon and Cornwall Police.
"We do appreciate that in the heat of the moment people react to that situation, and if it results in a happy outcome that's great."
Don't forget your hat!
"He added: "Our usual advice would be not to get involved, but to contact the police straight away," said a spokesman for the Devon and Cornwall Police."
Yeah, she should have made him a cup of tea [/rolling eyes here
Tee hee! Take away their guns, and they'll use garden gnomes :-) Personally, I think I'd rather get shot, than smashed over the head with a concrete garden gnome.
That Roaming Gnome really DOES get around...
I wonder which one she grabbed.....
Burma Shave!
I love happy endings! LOL
Waste not want not.....good for Grandma!
The Labour Party had better ban garden gnomes before this sort of disgraceful vigilantism gets out of hand.
Is that aimed at me? LOL!!!
Stop... or I'll gnome!
I grabbed the first thing that came to hand - one of my garden gnomes - and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled.
"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."
If gnomes were illegal, only criminals would have gnomes!
Ban Assault Gnomes Now!
Its a good thing the perp didn't get in the house, she might have really creamed him with the rolling pin.
"I didn't want to break another gnome."
This is one of those sentences that might never have been said before.
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