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Posted on 06/12/2009 8:19:14 AM PDT by mware
A group of students assembled a gnome village in front of the high school Thursday morning in an apparent prank days before graduation.
Now police are trying to reunite the 75 colorful garden ornaments with their rightful owners.
School staff found the pointy-hatted curios decorating the school's landscaping when they arrived at work.
Police Lt.Steven Ang said the eight students involved - all captured on the school's security cameras wearing dark hooded sweatshirts to conceal their identities - put some thought into the gnome feng shui
"They were strategically placed in the landscaping - neatly and professionally," he said.
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Similar to the prank some of my classmates pulled back when I graduated when they somehow acquired the Roberts Dairy Cow and planted it in front of the doors of the school.
Clever and entertaining. I remember reading about a gnome-napping and ransom notes sent with pics of him wearing a blindfold all over the country.
These kids should be caught and made to return every single gnome. Might be a good lesson in the costs of "unintended consequences".
Not bad at all. My favorite was the MIT students taking apart a teachers VW and putting it together in his house.
bttt
never heard that one...funny though
Couldn’t they have bought some gnomes? Did they have to steal them all.
I love my gnome. I’d be really bummed if it got stolen.
I Agree. My Senior Class (81) had a student who had the idea of putting a car on top of the school gym as our “Senior Prank”. Unfortunetley, he was killed in an automobile accident 8 weeks shy of our graduation. Well, we all showed up for the big event, and lo and behold, we spy a Volkswagon Beetle on top of the gym with a huge banner on it, as a memorial to him. nobody got in trouble and the school didn’t mind a bit.........
I was a goody-two-shoes, but my older brother pulled some great pranks. They filled the lobby of the school with stapled-together dixie cups full of water(I don’t know HOW they got the key!!) and covered the flag pole with tires.
According to the article, no one is reporting missing gnomes. If half the class each bought one gnome, that would be a lot.
If they were "borrowed", it would have been nice to sticker the return address to the bottom.
Might be a good idea to write your name and address on the bottom with an indelible marker.
I've taken to writing "Stolen from {insert name}, {address}" on the backs of election signs I place in the lawn.
“Gnoman, what is good?”
“To crush the Trolls, to drive them before you and hear the lamentations of their pixies.”
It was the damnest thing I ever saw.
They had thing planned out a long time ago. Gnomes started going missing in January.
geeze.
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