Travelling gnome prank

Garden dwarf on travel describes a phenomenon in which gnomes their site for a limited time - sometimes permanently - leave.

In addition to a theft comes as a reason for an organized trip for the owner of a garden gnome, and even for the dwarves into question. So the city Winsen had called as a marketing idea to the State Garden Show 2006 Zwerchtesgaden a package deal with a garden gnome meeting on the garden show to life. In Belgium, the garden gnome Jerome Angus Graham III reached. nationwide notoriety after took him godfather to travel to Antarctica. Equipped with sunglasses and flip-flops Leprechaun is awarded as a travel companion by its owner and published his tour experiences in the illustrated travel diary. The reports to demonstrate the seriousness of the godparents to want to make these provided with a fictional biography of the gnomes most widely traveled of its kind, sometimes it is misused as a Kurzweil for accompanying children.

This contrasts with different motives that sometimes justify the involuntary disappearance of dwarfs, so leave kidnappers messages like: "I had times fast! " Often the return of the Garden males is associated with surprises by documentary evidence of improbable experiences during the absence shall be settled. Together is almost always the atypical for a Ziergegenstand kind of personalization or documentation of extraordinary experiences.

Known to a wider public was the phenomenon as a subplot in the movie The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain, in the chauffeuring a stewardess a garden gnome through the world, after its owner, it gleichtut his dwarf later in terms of personal world exploration. The origins of the subject should go back in the Australia of the 1980s. On September 24, 1986, to read in the Sydney Morning Herald, that a woman's garden gnome had been stolen. In its place they have a message arrived ( here applied analogously ): "Dear Mom, I do not have it anymore, I ran away to see the world. Do not be angry, 'I 'll be back soon. In love Bilbo xxx ".

Murphy

From a similar case, British media reported in 2008. Lasted seven months, the journey of the Garden Gnomes Murphy of Gloucester. The 22- year-old student Simon Randles steel containing 3.6 kg decorative figure in January 2008 from the front yard of Derrick and Eve Stuart - Kelso. During the world tour, which took him to South Africa, among others, Australia and China, Murphy helped his kidnappers Randles to socialize. After his return Randles Murphy brought her back to the front yard. He also deposited a shopping bag, which contained an album of 48 photographs that were taken during Murphy's world tour. In addition Randles wrote a letter on behalf of Murphys its owner. Murphy founded in this letter his disappearance so that life has more to offer than the whole day to watch the road and be pissed of cats. Randles searched the couple Stuart - Kelso on a little later and told them the events. Mrs Stuart - Kelso said in substance, that the touching story 've sweetened it a bad day. She wanted to press charges distance, warned the honest thief but against a repeat. According to the local investigators of the theft would, however, pursued like any other criminal offense.