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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 10:31 AM
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Naughty Gnomes Made to Cover Up
BARNSLEY, England (Reuters) - A Barnsley man has covered up his lewd garden gnomes with painted-on swimwear after police warned him he faced arrest for causing public offence.



While most garden gnomes fish or enact scenes of bucolic tranquillity, ex-army sergeant Tony Watson's models in this northern English town bared their breasts and buttocks, prompting complaints from the public.


"It is an offence to display something that is insulting or likely to cause distress," a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday.


"Although some people view the gnomes as a bit of harmless fun, we have to take complaints from members of the public seriously."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20040512/od_nm/gnomes_dc
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kegler14 Donating Member (541 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 10:39 AM
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1. John Ashcroft must have been visiting.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 12:05 PM
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2. snort
welcome to DU :hi:

Ashcroft: embodiment of the new Puritanism.
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