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Garden Gnome Kidnapped, Taken To Mexico
The gnome’s name is Leopold. (Picture: CTV)
August 1st, 2016 | 09:33 AM | 1640 views
Metro.co.uk
Last year Bev York was the victim of a tragic crime, when a small gnome was stolen from her garden.
‘Near the end of the year I noticed it was missing from the end of the driveway, but I didn’t think anything of it. I thought somebody stole it,’ she said.
But the gnome has mysteriously reappeared, in the same spot as before wrapped in a plastic bag, following a well documented trip throughout the United States and Mexico.
‘I opened up the bag and it had a beautiful book and story, and it just brought a smile to my face,” she said. ‘I walked back and I was reading it. It was so cute.’
Bev says she doesn’t know who is responsible for the prank, nobody has admitted it to her and the only clue is a photo of a toddler cuddling the gnome.
This is not the first case of gnome rustling. Earlier this year a man had his gnome hijacked and a Facebook account made for it, while in 2008 French authorities arrested a man for stealing 170 of of the ornaments.
But Bev isn’t upset with whoever took her gnome, saying: ‘I think it’s a good news story in a time when there’s lots of bad news. I think it’s very sweet that they went to all that trouble and made that beautiful book,
’It’s nice to bring sunshine into somebody’s day.’
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by Paul Hardcastle
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