Woman Beats Off Burglar With Gnome

A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him. Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England. I grabbed the first thing that came to hand — one of my garden gnomes — and hurled it at him, and hit him, she recalled. He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome — via BoingBoing