Today in Gnomes in the Gnews, blue gnomes finally get removed. Totnes, a parish in Devon, England, found itself in a civic disagreement about city beautification. Lasting five years, the clash ended the other day when gnomes were removed from a traffic circle. This can be filed under Good Intentions Ruined by Reality. Click the masthead to go to the story.
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| when they were new? |
Apparently, the firm that sponsored cleaning up the traffic island spent £5000 on these "gnomes" that are actually Disney dwarves painted bright blue like smurfs. The plan was foliage from planted shrubs would fill the area in and the "gnomes" would blend in. Nothing grew, and the blue dwarves just ended up being a target for vandalism and gnome gnapping. A few "disappeared" and never returned.
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| They didn't age well... |
