Woman beats off burglar with gnome

[LynzM]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/15/britain.gnome.ap/index.html

LONDON, England (AP) -- A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday.

Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.

"I grabbed the first thing that came to hand -- one of my garden gnomes -- and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled.

"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lavender Brown]

1. Go Gran!

That is hilarious. :)

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Umm....this thread title is curiously misleading.

:D

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. LMAO

:evilgrin:

[silvermachine]

12. My thoughts exactly!!

And from a fellow Pirate an as well.
Might be a long season...:beer:

[redqueen]

26. Exactly what I thought.

:o

She did WHAT NOW?!

[Jamastiene]

32. My mind went there too.

I clicked to see just *how* she did it. Well, I found out. LOL.

[GOPisEvil]

3. She did WHAT with her gnome now?

:o

:evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

7. Damn... LOL

on edit... kinda makes my post below read a bit different too :D

[Arkana]

5. You really don't want to know

what I thought when I clicked on this thread.

[Misunderestimator]

6. I knew those nasty things had to be good for something!

[demnan]

8. I'm so glad you gave us this important story

Makes me wonder if Matcom is not falling down on the job for not catching this one!

[LynzM]

19. I know...

I'm amazed he missed this one! I didn't even write the title, CNN DID! :rofl:

[purr]

9. now i have a use for all the stupid

useless gnomes that my mom finds hilarious to put in my garden when im not home.

[LostinVA]

24. Mail them to me. I love them (n/t)

[MissMillie]

10. Guns don't kill people, gnomes kill people

:silly:

[ltfranklin]

11. If Gnomes are outlawed...

only outlaws will have gnomes.

And we'll be stuck with these damned pink flamingos!

[radwriter0555]

13. Garden gnomes RULE!!!!!!

They've found sanctuary in my gardens for several years now.

[qnr]

14. There's a KDE joke hiding in there somewhere.... n/t

[Misunderestimator]

16. I just wonder how he kept hold of the gnome.

:shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Wah. Beat me to it. (nt)

[qnr]

23. LOL, I knew you'd be popping in soon n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. I'd have used KY... but that's just me

(less chafing)

[Misunderestimator]

17. ...

:spray:

[BigMcLargehuge]

18. LOL

:)

Love that smiley!

:pals:

[flamingyouth]

20. I love a good garden gnome story.

The double entendre only makes it more interesting. :D

[Chovexani]

21. Oh man

I suddenly pictured that little Travelocity gnome flying head first into the burglar yelling, "En garde, foul miscreant!" :rofl:

[LostinVA]

25. or the one from Amelie (movie)

[Dukkha]

27. is "gnome" a name of a new stimulator?

oh man, that's the headline of the week!:rofl:

[lies and propaganda]

Best post title Im sure I will see all day.

I hope the gnome was cool with it.

[elperromagico]

28. In other news: Man Beats off Bear to Save Friend.

Read that in the National Lampoon Book of True Facts years ago.

[Beetwasher]

29. I'm Opposed To This! Did The Gnome Have ANY Say In The Matter?????

Sounce like a clear case of sexual harrassment if you ask me...

[LynzM]

30. Kick for the evening crowd!

Too funny to let it go just yet!

[two gun sid]

31. I'll try anything but, a gnome? That's just sick.

[nytemare]

33. "Amelie" would be proud!!

:)

[Jamastiene]

34. Do you remember the story from a few years ago

where this man had broken into this woman's house and was going to rape her and how her testimony about how she fought him off by grabbing his package with both hands and twisting in different directions made it onto the radio? I wish I had my new comp already. I'd find a way to copy that thing from tape and let you have a link to it. If you are :rofl: with this one, you'd absolutely LOVE "The Trial". It was something else. I'll never forget that one.

[KG]

35. i'll bet his pee-pee was sore the next day.

[arwalden]

36. I Just Use My Hand...

... less painful that way.

[eyepaddle]

37. I'm still not clear on this--which one had the gnome? NT