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GANDALF'S ANTITHESIS ARRESTED IN FRANCE
Recently Gandalf wrote a lively post regarding his intense dislike of garden gnomes and a strong desire to see them eliminated from all garden landscapes - well it appears his exact opposite lives in France. A 53 year old Frenchman has stolen 170 garden gnomes - repainted many of them and displayed them in his tiny garden.
Thankfully he lives in France and not next door to Gandalf.
Police in Bretagne have arrested a 53-year-old man suspected of the thefts of 170 garden gnomes. However, it is proving difficult to return the gnomes to their real owners -- the thief painted them different colors, making identification tricky.
These German garden gnomes are happy to have avoided the crime wave.
Not this time, however. Some 170 gnomes and other ornaments have been stolen in the north-western region of Bretagne recently. And it appears to be the work of a serial garden gnome thief acting on his own.
Police in the town of Mauron announced Tuesday that they had arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of stealing the gnomes. Investigators found around 170 stolen garden gnomes, deer figurines and other figures on the man's property. The entire hoard was exhibited in the suspect's garden, a mere 20 square meters (215 square feet) in size. Police described it as "a real mise en scène on green-painted stones."
After the case was reported in the local press, police were inundated by telephone calls from dozens of local residents hoping to get back missing gnomes which they presumed had been stolen. However, local gendarmes admitted it was proving hard to return the abducted gnomes to their true owners -- the purported gnome-snatcher had apparently re-painted some of the gnomes, making identification difficult.
The suspected thief could face a prison sentence for the mass gnome theft. "The case is almost laughable, but it is theft," local police officer Eric Le Roch told the news agency AFP.
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Quiznos Subs (smaller rival of Subway)
proudly claims a chicken is Halal certified.
I hope they go skint
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info@quiznosuk.com
tell 'em what you think, I did
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well why did he NOT, repeat NOT steal the ones in my back garden, the bloody things are still there, Typical French.
They are clearly anglophobes but the real power behind this lies in Switzerland, in Zurich they have lots of Gnomes there
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I'm not one for counting my (halal) chickens before they've hatched, but over on Betfair the odds for the Irish referendum to pass the Lisbon treaty have swung dramitically from an odds on yes to an odds on NO. ihope they've got it right. If so we owe the Irish a pint or two.
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amen to that
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