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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Guchi_Jnr on July 23, 2009, 03:43:41 AM

Title: Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear
Post by: Guchi_Jnr on July 23, 2009, 03:43:41 AM

Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear

German prosecutors say they have decided that displaying a golden garden gnome in a Nuremberg art gallery with its right hand raised in a Hitler salute was not illegal.

After a preliminary inquiry over the past week, prosecutors in the Bavarian city ruled that the 40-centimetre gnome is ridiculing the Nazis rather than promoting a return of the Third Reich.

"It is pretty clear that garden gnomes are silly and that they do silly things. In 1942 I would have been shot by the Nazis for this," prosecutors quoted the gnome's creator, artist Ottmar Hoerl, as saying.

(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4027/r4010091882719n.jpg)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2633788.htm (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2633788.htm)

I want one!!

Title: Re: Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear
Post by: shadowstar on August 01, 2009, 05:05:56 PM

At night, when everyone's asleep, it starts to move. And walk.

It knows how to get into your house.

Title: Re: Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear
Post by: Sev on August 01, 2009, 05:17:26 PM

It has scary eyes. I want to poke them out.

Title: Re: Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear
Post by: StreakInTheSky on August 03, 2009, 04:33:58 AM

Now imagine if Hitler had an army of those. D:

Title: Re: Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear
Post by: redux on August 03, 2009, 02:55:34 PM

^ I get the feeling they don't quite match up to his criteria...