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July 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Gnome owner Lorraine Dearing has until tomorrow to pay ransom, say thieves
- Mrs Dearing paid £5 for Norman two years ago nut insisted she would not bow to the kidnapper’s demands
- She added that she hoped ‘nothing awful’ would happen to Norman and asked for his safe return
By
Daily Mail Reporter
08:18 EST, 19 July 2012
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02:29 EST, 20 July 2012
In the two years he’s been lining up alongside plaster cast pals including Nessie, a crocodile and a meerkat, Norman the gnome has had his share of scrapes.
When the wind knocked him down, for example, it took some loving emergency repair work by owner Lorraine Dearing to glue his hand back in place.
Now, however, Norman finds himself in an altogether stickier situation, kidnapped and held to ransom in what appears to be a bad taste practical joke. And Mrs Dearing has yet to see the funny side.
Have you seen this gnome? Lorraine Dearing was shocked to receive this photo of her beloved gnome Norman being held at knife point
The first she knew of her gnome’s disappearance was when she discovered a scrawled ransom note on blue card demanding ‘1,000p’ for Norman’s safe return by today.
It was accompanied by a picture of a kitchen knife held under his throat and a threat to ‘behead’ him. The note read: ‘I know you wouldn’t want this to happen so listen to me.
‘Leave the money in your beautiful hanging baskets! If it’s not there then you don’t want to know what will happen to them!’
Mrs Dearing, 49, of Swindon, said she was ‘shocked’ by the threats but would not bow to the demands – particularly as Norman had cost just £5 when he was new.
Chilling: The photograph came with a ransom note scrawled on blue card. It demanded Mrs Dearing leave 1,000p in her hanging baskets or her gnome would be beheaded
The mother of one said: ‘I just want him back and I don’t know what to do. He is a part of my garden. It just doesn’t look the same with him gone.
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‘I got home from work and didn’t notice he was missing, but then I looked through the post and saw the note.
‘It was written in quite scruffy handwriting and there was a picture of Norman with a kitchen knife next to his throat. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
‘We have about 12 other ornaments in the garden and there are some really interesting ones that are worth more money.
‘I don’t understand why anyone would take Norman. He was just standing by himself on a piece of grass by the living room window.
‘There’s no way that I’m paying the ransom. They’ve also asked for the money in my hanging baskets in 1,000 pennies. If I put 1,000 pennies in them they’d fall down, it would be too heavy for them.’
Newspaper sales executive Mrs Dearing, who lives with husband Leslie, 47, a tyre-fitter, discovered that Norman was missing on Tuesday. The couple began filling their front garden with ornaments five years ago and their collection includes a Loch Ness monster and even singing birds.
Mrs Dearing added: ‘I don’t know who would do anything like this. I’m just hoping whoever it is has the heart to return him to me. I’d hate to think of anything awful happening to him.’
She said she had not reported the incident to the police as she hoped Norman would be returned.
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I cant stand this please pay the ransom.
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Even she is struggling to keep a straight face while the picture is being taken 🙂
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Even she is struggling to keep a straight face while the picture is being taken 🙂
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And this is news???????????? Pathetic.
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I can’t believe you actually printed this DM. It was probably her bored husband!
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She should have gnome it was gonna happen eventually!
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Watch out for latest in the enthralling story…..what will happen next?…….Will the gnome get the chop?……Will he be returned unharmed to his loving owner…..or……will she get a life……..!
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Please tell me this lady knows this must be a joke and is not really worried, in my misspent youth a large group of us decided all the towns gnomes wanted a night out and help them escape to the park and beach, they went for a swing and slide etc and even crossed the park lake onto the island and all concerned in the town realized it was just a bit of harmless fun and the local police called them runaways and had them at the station for people to pick up. the town all enjoyed the joke but it was not repeated (would not have been funny a second time). okay it may have been a bit naughty but none damaged and no vandalism. even though now a lot older and not in the UK still find it funny, sorry
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Oh Please tell me , this lady is taking this as a joke ! in my wild youth days , a group of us went around our home town and took some lonely gnomes for a ride and took them into the park and they had a swing and slide etc – really had a lot of fun -(NONE DAMAGED) i must point out, the police and all concerned saw it as was intended as a joke a bit of harmless fun and all were rounded up and owners invited to collect from the police station, it was reported as a bit of fun in the local papers also. It was not repeated but the whole town laughed and as far as I remember no one was offended.
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“Mrs Dearing paid £5 for Norman two years ago nut insisted she would not bow to the kidnapper’s demands” – “‘They’ve also asked for the money in my hanging baskets in 1,000 pennies. If I put 1,000 pennies in them they’d fall down, it would be too heavy for them.'” – “‘He looks like he is going to get it in the picture and they are also threatening my hanging baskets. They only went up at the weekend and I do keep checking that they are still there.” ———— ‘nut’ insisted, hanging baskets being threatened, 1000 pennies! Is it April Fools again already?! Oh, please DM, do some more stories like this, my sides are aching! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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