Sunday, January 20, 2008

MISSING GARDEN GNOMES FOUND IN SHADY SPOT

Oh I love this stuff - high jinx, just for the sake of it! Well done gnome liberationists!

Missing garden gnomes found in shady spot

November 02 2006 at 02:16AM


Limoges - Seventy-nine garden gnomes, snatched by a so-called gnome liberation group, were found on Wednesday along the banks of a stream in the central Limousin region, police said.
Police said the gnomes were hidden in some underbrush with a banner that read: "Gnome mistreated, gnome liberated." A national garden gnome liberation operation was announced on the group's website in honour of the November 1 French holiday, All Saint's Day.
Last month 86 gnomes were found in the yard of a Limoges high school. Others, stolen last summer, were discovered along the edge of a swimming pool on the outskirts of the city. "Because of the heat wave, they wanted to get some air," read a letter that appeared in gnome owners' mailboxes.
According to the group's website, the Front for the Liberation of Garden Gnomes (FLNJ) has about 100 active members throughout France, as well as in Canada, Germany, Spain, and the United States. - Sapa-AFP

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