Gnome invasion!
There's something unsettling about garden gnomes. Sure, they can be cute, but they never stop staring at you. Imagine waking up to find dozens of the little buggers standing in a phalanx on your front walkway, as if preparing to lay siege to your house.
Such is the situation which a woman in Devon, England faced recently when she awoke to discover 107 gnomes had appeared in her front yard overnight. The gnomes had been placed sometime between the hours of 9:30PM and 1:30AM, and gave Marcela Telehanicova quite a start.
Telehanicova reported the invasion to the local police department, because she worried they had been stolen, and that she would be an accessory to the theft. The officers contacted a local garden center, which verified that the gnomes had not been stolen from their property.
The provenance of the gnomes, as well as the identity of the gnome deployer, remains a mystery. (Or perhaps they simply walked there on their own volition?)