He's just an average gnome that stood quietly in the garden in the front of a home belonging to a woman named Marianne Severson who lives in Redmond, Washington.
But for spring break, a group of college students kidnapped the ceramic ornament from Severson's home, and took the less-than-foot-tall gnome on an interstate joyride to California and Nevada, where he hounded celebrities for photos. He then hung out in Vegas for awhile before returning mysteriously home with a photo album documenting his excellent adventures.
Upon finding out about the kidnapping, Mrs. Severson told Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today Show" that she alerted her husband: "We've been gnomed!"
One of the pix in the album shows the little guy snugging with Paris Hilton at an L.A. gas station, with patient paparazzi standing in the background. One of their photos of the heiress and the gnome made it into People magazine (above). Then it was off to Las Vegas to get pictures taken with Elvis and Marilyn impersonators, and then waitresses from Hooters.
, Mrs. Stevenson also said she's had a phone conversation with the college student who 'napped the gnome. She still doesn't know who he is, but she thanked him for choosing her gnome for the trip, and added, "The next time he does this, he should take my husband and me because we haven't been on vacation in years."
She is convinced the gnome in the pictures is hers, because it's an original which she hand-painted it herself.
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Mrs. Stevenson also said she's had a phone conversation with the college student who 'napped the gnome. She still doesn't know who he is, but she thanked him for choosing her gnome for the trip, and added, "The next time he does this, he should take my husband and me because we haven't been on vacation in years."
She is convinced the gnome in the pictures is hers, because it's an original which she hand-painted it herself.
Read the full sordid details at msnbc.msn.com
Comments
I hope the Hooters girls had the good sense to use a little Purell on their hands after handling the gnome post-Paris.
Posted by: Cordelia | April 15, 2005 8:36 PM
more info on the story here
http://blog.kellykeeton.com
btw i was part of the group that did it
Posted by: Kelly | April 17, 2005 7:29 AM
go paris lol
Posted by: emma | January 30, 2006 8:59 PM