101 gnomes found in forest
2002-08-10 11:54
Bordeaux - Puzzled French police are investigating after a mushroom hunter
stumbled on an unexpected find in the middle of a pine forest in
southwest France: 101 garden gnomes.
The gnomes, standing 10 to 80cm high, were arranged in a circle, some of them on tree trunks, in the woods in Podensac, south of Bordeaux.
"It was very nice to look at, very tastefully done," the local
police chief said, who has put out an appeal for anyone who
believes they might have lost their figurines to come and identify
them, if possible with photographs to prove ownership.
A shadowy organisation calling itself the Front for the
Liberation of Gnomes warned last spring that it was waging "a mass
campaign" against the "oppressors and enslavers" of garden gnomes,
the local newspaper Sud Ouest said in its report on Saturday.
- Sapa-AFP
- SAPA