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Police find garden guardians planted in 'David Oakes' l awn
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HORNELL - A dozen abductees are being held in the Hornell Police Department basement, waiting to be returned to their respective yards and gardens.
Police took into custody about a dozen lawn ornaments Saturday after receiving a call that they'd been found. No one reported them missing and no one knows where they came from, but they all wound up in an Adsit Street lawn.
David Oakes, the city's Department of Public Works superintendent, said he woke up Saturday morning to find the garden party scattered across his lawn.
"My wife opened the curtains ... there were various ceramic gnomes, bunnies, soldiers, a couple potted flowers," the surprised superintendent said. "We thought maybe it was somebody we knew, who for some reason had done this."
Oakes called neighbours, thinking passer by pranksters had scooped the motley crew up and assembled them in his lawn. They assured him the ornaments were not theirs. He called police in case anyone else in the city had reported them missing. Police had - and still have - no such reports; they collected the ceramic assembly and brought them to the station.
Police are puzzling who perpetrated the prank. Capt. Ted Murray said it could be the work of Alfred college students, saying they get rambunctious at the end of the school year.
The kidnapped ceramics appear to be undamaged and unharmed. They include several gnomes, nutcrackers and frogs, a wooden cow, two mushrooms and a large, red plush bulldog. Anyone missing such yard ornaments should contact the Hornell Police Department at (607) 324-2860.
About a dozen lawn ornaments are now in the basement of the Hornell Police Department.
The Evening Tribune NY
KYLE A. TOROK
Tip workers at a waste disposal site have been ordered to "cull" a growing collection of unwanted garden gnomes amid an apparent downturn in the ornaments' popularity.
The operators of the Lifford Lane tip in Kings Norton, Birmingham, England said a rolling replacement programme had been set up to ensure the gnome colony does not swell to unmanageable proportions.
Alf Hickey, of Tyseley Waste Disposal, which runs the refuse facility, admitted: "We have to cull them every few months because we get so many - we have to throw the old stuff away and keep the new stuff"
The site's current contingent of about 40 gnomes has been joined by pottery hens, ducks, chickens, and frogs.
The woodland creatures, which greet visitors at the entrance to the tip, are particularly popular with children whose parents use the site.
28.April 2004 UK By Matthew Cooper, PA News |
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When, 28 years ago, Mrs Christine Crouch and her husband Brian moved house t o Pennington, Lymington, she placed a few Gnomes in the front garden for the enjoyment of her five children. Since then, with the subsequent arrival of twelve grand children, matters have got rather out of hand, for the frontage of 'Gnome View' is now home to almost 200 colourful gnomes of all shapes and sizes - and still giving great pleasure to many passers-by of all age groups.
But something sinister has been happening at Gnome View during the past month for some of the gnomes are going "Gnomadic" by suddenly disappearing at around midnight. Eight departed on Lymington carnival night, seven the following week and six more last week, despite an automatic security light covering the garden. A police officer called to inform Mrs Crouch that it was a serious offence with culprits guilty of theft and trespass. With around half the gnomes bought new and the remainder from car boot sales, average cost is £5 the most expensive and a large gnome with a deer at £21.
It's so senseless for these mindless vandals to steal these gnomes, especially as they're spoiling the enjoyment of so many young children who stop to admire them. I hope anyone with information will contact Lymington police said Mrs Couch. In the meantime she is on the lookout for a P.C.Plod gnome in the hope he will act as a "gnoman".
(Lymington Times)
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Grandmother fells burglar with a gnome
By Richard Savill
Jean Collop was woken in the early hours after hearing a noise. She went outside in her nightdress and saw the intruder near a skylight.
"I politely told him not to move," said Mrs Collop, who is in her late 60s and lives in Wadebridge, Cornwall. "I grabbed the first thing that came to hand, one of my garden gnomes, and hurled it at him, and hit him.
"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."
Mrs Collop went back inside again and picked up a camera and photographed the intruder as he tried to flee. A 20-year-old man was arrested and cautioned for attempted burglary. |
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