Gnomecoming: Owners Flock To Get Stolen Statues Back

[rucky]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3937073,00.html


In Greeley, they're planning a gnomecoming
Owners flock to get stolen statues back

By Ivan Moreno, Rocky Mountain News
July 19, 2005

GREELEY - Perhaps it was a lack of gnomeland security that pushed Elsie Schnorr into the ranks of Greeley's gnomeless.

She's not exactly sure how it happened, but she thinks she knows how to describe the culprit: jobless, bored and without anything better to do than go around trolling for gnomes.

On May 31 several of Schnorr's garden gnomes were stolen, and then a few days later, the robber came back for seconds, all in all stealing 30 of Schnorr's prized gnomes - little statues that serve as garden decorations.

And Schnorr wasn't alone.

On Saturday, children found black bags with 80 gnomes behind an apartment complex in west Greeley, Sgt. Tom Walde said.

"They're just like little people, only they don't talk to you," Schnorr said...

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[merh]

1. There's no place like gnome, there's no place like gnome

I guess they can't click their little heels together since they are cemented in place, so I thought I would try to help. :silly:

[rucky]

4. Is that a confession to the gnome-napping?

"trying to help"??? are you from the GLF? Gnome Liberation Front?

[merh]

8. There's no business like gnome business,

Like gnome business I've gnome!

Everything about it is appealing

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[phantom power]

2. "They're just like little people, only they don't talk to you."

You can't write humor like that... :spray:

[rucky]

3. sounds like one of those Daily Show segments. n/t

[phantom power]

5. Totally. Or, dialog from a Christopher Guest movie.

OK, maybe there are a few people who could write humor that good...

[Connie_Corleone]

6. I thought they went to work at Travelocity. n/t

[KittyWampus]

7. hahahahahhaha