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Garden gnome attack injures neighbour
theaustralian.news.com.au ^
| October 01, 2008
| Paul Carter
Posted on 10/01/2008 1:38:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The court heard a long-running dispute between neighbours erupted in violence in November last year, with the two sides throwing objects at each other over a common fence.
...Justice Tennent said Shepherd and his male neighbour had been equally stupid, but Shepherd's reckless act had caused injury to Ms Bryce.
"You must have foreseen that your actions could result in the injury but you continued to throw the gnome nevertheless," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gnome
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:42:36 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: savedbygrace
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:43:06 PM PDT
by
dragonblustar
(Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Never bring a golf club to a gnomefight.
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:44:09 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Berlin_Freeper; Liberty Valance
Yes, this gnome was used inappropriately, but that’s part of the price of a free society. When gnomes are outlawed, they will pry my gnome from my cold, dead fingers.
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:44:27 PM PDT
by
Brucifer
("The dog ate my copy of the Constitution." G W Bush)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Travelocity denies any wrongdoing by their Traveling Gnome, saying “They all look the same to me!”. The Gnome, himself, was unable to comment.
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:46:17 PM PDT
by
blu
(Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
To: dragonblustar
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:46:58 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: Berlin_Freeper
"You must have foreseen that your actions could result in the injury but you continued to throw the gnome nevertheless," she said. It's all fun and games until somebody's noggin gets nailed with a gnome.
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:49:01 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(Welcome PUMAs!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Mugshot of the perp.
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:52:24 PM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
To: Berlin_Freeper
BOBBY: We have a garden gnome!
HANK: Oh, boy.
BOBBY: I shall call him “Vandor.”
PEGGY: You will call him Winklebottom, like everyone else.
King of the Hill; “Yard, She Blows”
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:53:56 PM PDT
by
Chasaway
(There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness")
To: Berlin_Freeper
And now we see WHY throwing pieces of the gnome was a bad idea!
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:55:33 PM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: 6SJ7
It's all fu
Gn and games u
Gntil somebody's
Gnoggin gets
Gnailed with a gnome.
there, fixed it...
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posted on
10/01/2008 1:56:12 PM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: misharu; new cruelty
To: Berlin_Freeper
Garden gnomes are creepy, and will turn on you.
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posted on
10/01/2008 7:21:23 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Here to help)
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