Garden Gnome Wars!

An anonymous UK man has admitted to stealing his neighbour's garden gnome from their front lawn - because it was terrifying his five-year-old son.

The man explained in a Reddit post that his neighbour, Cindy, has a large front garden and uses part of it for a "gnome village" where she has several garden gnomes on display.

But after she recently added a new gnome to her collection, the man's son has "developed a fear" of the garden statues and now refuses to play in his own garden because he's terrified of the ornament.

The man insisted he spoke to Cindy about removing the gnome but she refused - so he took matters into his own hands and pinched it from her garden, hiding it in a bush so no one would find it.

In his post, he wrote: "My neighbour Cindy has a large front garden. She grows flowers and some produce, and also has a 'gnome village' with those tacky garden gnomes you see in garden centres that you can paint and whatnot.

"Recently, Cindy got a new gnome. For whatever reason, my five-year-old son has developed a fear of this particular gnome. I'm not sure why. I'm sure he's seen something scary on youtube or something. The gnome is just a normal gnome with a gardening hoe and a basket of flowers.

"I decided to talk to Cindy, explained the problem and asked if she would move the gnome to the back garden or behind the bushes on her patio. Cindy refused! I wasn't asking for much!

"A few days ago, my son was outside playing and his ball rolled into Cindy's yard. He refused to go get it, and he was crying and begging me to get the ball. I got it and moved the gnome behind some flower bushes. My plan was to move it back once my son stopped playing."

The man's plan backfired when his neighbour came out to water her plants just moments later and noticed the missing gnome, leaving him forced to reveal where he hid it.

He added: "Cindy came out to water the garden, noticed the gnome was gone and demanded to know where it was. She even threatened to call the police on me! Over a gnome! After I gave her back the gnome, Cindy told me not to come on her property again.

"I told my wife what happened and while she thinks Cindy overacted, she also thinks I shouldn't have taken the gnome. She says our son will get over his fear in time or he'll just have to play in the back. I think our son has a right to play in his own front yard without being scared of a gnome."

Full story at the link ... https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/i-stole-neighbours-garden-gnome-27280898

The offending gnome ...

Cindy has a sick sense of humor.

The only things I think I was really scared of as a kid were snakes and those flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.

I don't remember being terrified of anything as a kid.  

Us girls are tough! LOL

For me it was quick sand.

My brother's grandson was afraid of the face that Poppy put on the tree in the yard.

Jaws scared me. Good thing I don't live near the ocean.

oh i just remembered...my grandmother was for all practical purposes blind. She sent us four grandkids to the movies, it was her treat, to see a disney film. She got something wrong....it was Psycho. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOO I laugh about it now but at the time it was pretty disturbing.

Red Lily wrote:I don't remember being terrified of anything as a kid.  

Us girls are tough!  LOL

If you weren't terrified of flying monkeys, you must have slept through them.

"Dear Abby..." lol

Of course the guy didn't have a right to move his neighbor's property, but sheesh, couldn't she have been the wee-ist bit sympathetic to a 5 yr old who may, just may have been terrified by the AX in that gnome's hands?

Either that, or by how stoned he looks.