Gnome returns after 13 years
Was it the GLA ( The Gnome Liberation Army) or the GLF (Gnome Liberation Front) ?
Hardly……. it seems!
No — just some pathetic guilt ridden twerp !
The little fellow was spirited away in the dead of night from Denis and Doris Heard’s garden more than 13 years ago. They accepted the theft of their garden gnome as ‘just one of those things’. After all, plenty of their bearded figures had already been smashed or thrown over the hedge by passing youths.
But the prankster who stole the ornament back in 1996 wasn’t able to forget his crime so easily.
Haunted by a guilty conscience, the mysterious thief last week returned to the pensioners’ council house in Leeds and left them a package containing a letter of apology and a replacement gnome.
Mr and Mrs Heard, both 77, couldn’t believe their eyes when they returned from a shopping trip to find the gnome.
IT IS NOT easy being a garden gnome. After all, they have to stand outside in all weathers and suffer the indignity of birds using them as in-flight toilets. And then there is every possibility of falling prey to gnome-nappers, who seem to surface every few years in various parts of the country.
In some cases, the culprits even send bizarre messages from the “gnomes” to bemused owners. In one such case, a guilt-ridden thief has now delivered a replacement gnome after more than 10 years. That certainly breaks the mould as far as the criminal fraternity is concerned.
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