Could be called harassment by proxy, I suppose. In my whole life though, I don’t think I’ve ever considered that a garden gnome could be an object or instrument of harassment. Now that has changed. The Cornish police have set me straight. And, for that matter, set Mr MacKillop straight too.
He was woken in the night by two police officers who warned him that the solar-powered gnome, dressed in full police uniform, was offensive to his neighbours.
They served him with a notice under the Protection From Harassment Act 1997 for “placing a garden gnome with intent to cause harassment to Mr John McLean”.
The notice, issued on August 30, also accuses Mr MacKillop of intimidating potential buyers of former policeman Mr McLean’s £209,000 cottage in Treovis, near Liskeard, Cornwall. It warns the 46-year-old that he could be arrested and prosecuted.
Hehe, ‘placing a garden gnome with intent to cause harassment to Mr John McLean’. ROTFL.
It’s like that gnome from the TV commercials, he was very annoying too in a freakish nightmarish sort of way.
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