LinkyPolice Watch Abducted Gnomes Gather Dust
Tue October 28, 2003 10:16 AM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - A French police station has been stuck with a room of homeless garden gnomes, victims of a wave of gnome abductions, after a fresh bid to trace their owners failed.
Only a trickle of people showed up for Monday's "gnome return day" at the police station in Saint-Die-des-Vosges, near the eastern city of Strasbourg, and only one person was reunited with their stolen gnome, police said.
Some 75 kidnapped gnomes were recovered in 2001 after a group called the Garden Gnome Liberation Front released them, leaving them on the steps of the Saint-Die-des-Vosges cathedral. Police are yet to reunite 43 of the gnomes with their owners.
"In wanting to set them free, the Liberation Front has virtually imprisoned them," policeman Sylvain Brucker told Reuters, adding that the local prosecutor could decide to sell the kitsch garden ornaments in a police auction.
"Perhaps there are people with gardens who would like to adopt them," he said.
Police Watch Abducted Gnomes Gather Dust
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Why couldn't this happen to SEGNOR? 
(Just kidding, blease don't bite my knees off)
Couldn't everyone who lost a gnome just go and claim theirs?
(Just kidding, blease don't bite my knees off)Couldn't everyone who lost a gnome just go and claim theirs?
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That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
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That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
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I recommend summary execution of these gnomes, wait a second its France...perhaps we should celebrate the countrys sole military triumph (The French Civil War) and bust out a Guillotine.
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I don`t think people would go openly to get their gnomes back and go back home with one in their arms,they would be laughed at "Get a gargoyle"Gandalf wrote:Why couldn't this happen to SEGNOR?
Couldn't everyone who lost a gnome just go and claim theirs?
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Want to know the REAL story?
There's a mystic energy source underneath the cathedral, we were hoping to tap it somehow when we were discovered.
Thus we made up the elaborate story about the gnome liberation front.to save us at the last moment.
Not think it's a little coincidental that only one of the owners has been found? And he's just a familiar anyhow.
There's a mystic energy source underneath the cathedral, we were hoping to tap it somehow when we were discovered.
Thus we made up the elaborate story about the gnome liberation front.to save us at the last moment.
Not think it's a little coincidental that only one of the owners has been found? And he's just a familiar anyhow.
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