Mystery of missing garden gnomes puzzling
By The Associated Press | July 19, 2005
GREELEY, Colo. --The mystery of the missing garden gnomes may prove harder to solve after all.
Police found about 80 of the pint-sized figurines stashed in black plastic bags and surrounded by youngsters on Saturday, but investigators don't think the children stole them.
In fact, Sgt. Dave Adams said the children most likely found them, so it's back to square one.
Adams said police will call people who reported their gnomes stolen to come identify the decorative yard items.
Elsie Schnorr, who had 30 gnomes stolen from her front lawn more than a month ago, will be among the first to retrieve her property.
"I could identify every one of them. My name isn't on them, but I know which ones are mine. Most of mine are one-of-kind," she said.
First of all, may I just say ....
30 GNOMES IN ONE YARD!!??!!
okay, that being said---
This little episode proves my friends and I were TREND SETTERS, I tell ya...TREND SETTERS!!!
As children, we, too, experimented with Gnomes.
(okay, we weren't exactly CHILDREN, but that's beside the point...in fact, well...nevermind about that.)
So anyway, we had a habit of visiting a certain house, in the dead of night, and rearranging their multiple gnomes.
Generally, we would arrange them on the doorstep...staring alarmingly into the house...we liked to think it looked as if the gnomes were stopped just short of a major insurrection by the breaking of the dawn, but it probably just looked kind of silly.
We returned to the same house several times, and did more subvertive rearranging, but stopped eventually, as it was no fun not being able to see the inhabitants faces as they rose in the morning to see a horde of gnomes threatening their homestead.
Well, I guess they weren't that threatening...with their cute little hoes and buckets, but imagine if they were 30 feet tall!?
30 feet tall, grinning their weird maniac grins.
Now that would be scary.
Oh yes.
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Ah, I well remember the days of gnome re-arranging. Were you there the night we borrowed all the stray socks from a laundromat lost- and -found and spelled out words on the ground in front of City Hall? What words I can't remember... Oh, the days of heady youth! :)
Vanne
ah, I remember that particular night... do you recall, Vanne, that on the same night, we found a bunch of teenage girls in a tent in a backyard, comparing breast sizes? And we pelted the tent with balled-up socks until they screamed in fury, thinking it was one of the girl's little brothers? And we ran, stifling our giggles... Ah, those long-lost halcyon days....
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