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2005-04-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Grandma Stops Intruder With Garden Gnome

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-04-19 7:46:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You go, girl.

Posted by too true 2005-04-19 8:44:58 AM|| 2005-04-19 8:44:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm surprised they didn't prosecute her. She attacked a poor, defenseless intruder with a deadly weapon, after all.

Posted by Spot 2005-04-19 9:01:09 AM|| 2005-04-19 9:01:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent! Too bad she didn't get the opportunity to fully trounce him before the police came by.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-19 9:13:13 AM|| 2005-04-19 9:13:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Two observations:

(1) Garden gnomes: Why do they hate us(tm)?
(2) That's it, we must ban all gnomes and rolling pins. When you outlaw gnomes, only the outlaws will have gnomes! (/sarcasm off/)

Posted by BA 2005-04-19 9:26:54 AM|| 2005-04-19 9:26:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Forward this to Martha Stewart! I'm glad Grandma
is safe- the act of crime turned out okay for her*
Keep some manure on hand as well.

ANdrea Jackson

Posted by Andrea Jackson 2005-04-19 9:56:02 AM|| 2005-04-19 9:56:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 In France we have had a movement called the "Garden Gnome Liberation Front" who dedicated itself at kidnapping captive garden gnomes and then freeing them in their natural habitat (forest).

Had she been living in France she wouldn't have had a gnome to throw at the intruder.

Posted by JFM 2005-04-19 10:10:30 AM|| 2005-04-19 10:10:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Luckily she threw a concrete gnome and not a Christmas fruit cake, or she'd be facing murder charges. ;)

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-04-19 10:19:25 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-04-19 10:19:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, great--this means a whole new rash of "Roming Gnome" Travelocity commercials...

Seriously, though, I'm surprised this granny wasn't prosecuted--are things changing in the UK? Can you legally defend your own life, property, and family now?

Posted by Dar 2005-04-19 10:26:31 AM|| 2005-04-19 10:26:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like progress.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-19 5:32:07 PM|| 2005-04-19 5:32:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Apparently, she's being scouted by "Hek's Hurlers." As soon as she passes her physical and takes the shahada pledge, that is...

Posted by Seafarious 2005-04-19 5:51:04 PM|| 2005-04-19 5:51:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 No garden gnomes in Nome. Of course, we defend ourselves with guns and heavy equipment up there.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-19 6:11:17 PM|| 2005-04-19 6:11:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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