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Posted on 04/19/2005 5:49:42 PM PDT by Dubya
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."
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Travelocity will have to work this shtick into their commercials...
It just seems so... "British." I remember an episode of Fawlty Towers ending with John Cleese about to use a garden gnome as a weapon.
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Was he being attacked with Rasberries?
I certainly hope that garden gnome was registered.
I think what you're trying to say there is that this could very well have been an Assault Gnome.
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If someone is on your property, attempting to enter your home, whatever you do: do not get involved!
If you want a Gnome try Gnome on the Range, or try digging in a shallow grave in the Heimlich National Forrest.
The loam gnome becomes a dome gnome.
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Stupid intruder armed himself with just a garden gnome? Like that is going to scare a grandma...
First thing I thought of, the episode ends with Basil marching off with intentions of inserting a large garden gnome into the bumbling contractor O'Reilly.
I still can't believe they only made 12 episodes. It seems like there were 30. I guess the writing was so tight that each episode carried a lot of punch.
"I certainly hope that garden gnome was registered."
She got it over the Internet. It's a full automatic.
I can't remember, is that what Hank did? I know his conscience got the better of him after a while.
I wonder if he got the point?
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