When in gnome: Woman’s lawn ornament ‘kidnapped’ to Mexico and back

Highway 66. The Grand Canyon. Beaches in Mexico. Beautiful photos of a motorhome vacation down south showed up at Bev York’s home last week – but she’s not in any of them. That’s because they’re of Leopold: a bearded, white-haired, soccer-playing lawn gnome that went missing from the front yard of York’s Victoria home last year. “Near the end of the year I noticed it was missing from the end of the driveway, but I didn’t think anything of it. I thought somebody stole it,” she said. But last week, York spotted something in the exact same spot her gnome had gone missing from. It was Leopold, wrapped up in plastic, and he wasn’t alone.

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