Gnome World Tour

[Vesuvius 996]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043552/Gn...

[Justayellowbadge]

Article said:

Gloucestershire police took a less amused view of the adventure.

A spokesman said: 'Any theft of a person's property, even if it is carried out as a joke, will be treated as a crime by police.'

Humourless twunts.

[scotal]

Soov, you're reading the mail again reposts as well http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[SLacKer]

It was on our local news last night....genius idea. The culprit has fessed up some 22 year old student I think.

I reckon the gnome did it on his own

[Fidgits]

Justayellowbadge said:

Article said:

Gloucestershire police took a less amused view of the adventure.

A spokesman said: 'Any theft of a person's property, even if it is carried out as a joke, will be treated as a crime by police.'

Humourless twunts.

yep...

[Plotloss]

Someone has confessed.

So a crime thats easily solveable.

Looks good for the statistics.

[bob1179]

I think that is such a great story.

It was all a little bit of fun and I think the owner of the gnome would ver yhappy to have such a great present from the gnome.

[Fidgits]

bob1179 said:

I think that is such a great story.

It was all a little bit of fun and I think the owner of the gnome would ver yhappy to have such a great present from the gnome.

considering, as the story says, they inherited it with the house rather than having bought it.

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Fidgits said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Article said:

Gloucestershire police took a less amused view of the adventure.

A spokesman said: 'Any theft of a person's property, even if it is carried out as a joke, will be treated as a crime by police.'

Humourless twunts.

yep...

It also wasn't theft. Theft is taking something with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it. They gave it back, so not theft. You'd really think the police would know that

[John D.]

bob1179 said:

I think that is such a great story.

It was all a little bit of fun and I think the owner of the gnome would ver yhappy to have such a great present from the gnome.

Made me chuckle

[XJSJohn]

have to say, i am more worried about the fact that Soovy seems to be becoming a daily wail reader .... what's happening in the UK these days??????


edit to add - brilliant story though

Edited by XJSJohn on Wednesday 13th August 12:02

[Asterix]

Lovely story

I'm looking forward to having Ted over for his visit to me. Going to take him non shadow camel riding

[Timsta]

Justayellowbadge said:

Article said:

Gloucestershire police took a less amused view of the adventure.

A spokesman said: 'Any theft of a person's property, even if it is carried out as a joke, will be treated as a crime by police.'

Humourless twunts.

As said above, they can try to treat it as a crime, but theft, by definition in law, would reqire them to want to permanently deprive the owner. Which wasn't their intent.


But, if there was a crime, what was it?

Edited by Timsta on Wednesday 13th August 12:02

[XJSJohn]

Timsta said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Article said:

Gloucestershire police took a less amused view of the adventure.

A spokesman said: 'Any theft of a person's property, even if it is carried out as a joke, will be treated as a crime by police.'

Humourless twunts.

As said above, they can try to treat it as a crime, but theft, by definition in law, would reqire them to want to permanently deprive the owner. Which wasn't their intent.


But, if there was a crime, what was it?

Edited by Timsta on Wednesday 13th August 12:02

kidnap Gnomenap??

[m4tthew]

Fairy nuff they took it, but they sent pictures which toad the owners where it was plus they gave it back.

Gnome harm done imo.

[anonymous-user]

Great, some students taking a gnome on a year off with them! I wonder where they got the idea from? Oh, all the other students kidnapping gnomes and taking them on a year off.

It's about as new as blokes in matching t shirts going to Prague for a stag do.

I bet the beaches and bars of Thailand are full of these gnomes, perhaps the stag do trip lads will also start kidnapping gnomes and taking them to Estonia. They might even make a matching t shirt for the gnome too.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 13th August 12:13

[AMCDan]

as students we did a similar thing.. over the course of a summer we collected various gnomes from local gardens. At the end of summer, very, very early one morning we lined around 30 of them up along Glasgow Road.

We also stole one of those giant 99 cones that you see outside newsagents. Then the next day they had a newspaper board outside that said "thieves steal giant 99 cone" - so we stole that too and had it displayed above our cone.

[monthefish]

Great story, and glad to hear he's been returned to his owner.

There's no place like Gnome.....