http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/5330538.stm
2006-09-10 04:54:27 · 30 answers · asked by http://hogshead.pokerknave.com/ 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Mine was cautioned by the Elf and Safety Executive.
2006-09-10 05:01:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I read this story in the newspaper yesterday too.
Totally unbelieveable and more concerningly the police appear to have "taken sides" in the dispute. Surely nobody in their right mind would claim the gnome was harressing him.
Me thinks that there be a connection with this case and the fact that the complainer was ex police himself!
All I can say is thank god I dont live next door to the unpleasant little man! (house owner not the gnome...he looked cute!)
2006-09-10 12:02:50 · answer #2 · answered by JuJu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just a fine example of people who have nothing else to do but blame other people for their own mishap. I have never heard anything so absurd. Its private property, he can do what he wants, if its not affecting anyone else or any animal or wildlife then its questionable what effect a lump of clay is having on his property if any at all !
If its breaking the law than the law is crap, just like the law on people using mobile phones while driving , it doesn't work and its a waste of peoples time and money !
If the guys property isn't selling then its got sod all to do with what next door has in his garden, why don't you get the people from changing rooms to sort out his house before suggesting Alan partridge should visit and sort out the gnome ! Duh !
what is this country coming to , i wonder ?!??!
the bloke with the gnome might as well say " your wallpaper clashes with my flowers & gnome, can you redecor your whole house so it fits in with my begonias" see what he says then.
; - )
2006-09-10 12:18:33 · answer #3 · answered by yaaaz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the garden gnome was doing something illegal, then sure, the police can arrest him. Bad evil little gnomes. . . . However, the garden gnome in this story wasn't arrested, the man who owned the gnome was served with papers to get rid of it.
2006-09-10 12:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by Gwen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the gnome is causing a public nuisance, or its presence may lead to a breach of the peace, the police can remove it. If you take the p*ss out of the police, expect to have your gnomes removed.
2006-09-10 12:00:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the BBC has reported the full facts then the Police are way out of order here. This is a civil matter which neighbours should sort out among themselves. I suspect the Police will back down on this one.
2006-09-10 12:09:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and slap it with an asbo for disturbing the peace by having a wee flashing light at the end of a driveway! Yet again the totally nuts PC brigade waste our money and resources on stupid things!
2006-09-10 12:03:48 · answer #7 · answered by camshy0078 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the gnome in question is breaking the law then I do not see why not
Cornishmen tried and executed a monkey, thinking it was a Frenchman. It is a smilar type of ignorance.
2006-09-12 08:50:21 · answer #8 · answered by Amanda K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not especially if he has no gnome to go to!
Have just read the article, poor wee mite, he totally looks stunned into silence. And him just ligthing up every ones life.
2006-09-10 12:00:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thik the neighbours need to grow up and stop harrassing the bloke with the gnome.
2006-09-10 12:01:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's the dog that is causing the problems. The gnome is innocent.
2006-09-10 11:58:52 · answer #11 · answered by mmuscs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋