<P> In 1998, the Garden Gnome Liberation Front made headlines again when they staged a "mass suicide" of gnomes by hanging 11 garden gnomes with nooses around their necks under a bridge at Briey in northeastern France with a note that stated, "When you read these few words we will no longer be part of your selfish world, where we serve merely as pretty decorations ." The Front was in the news again in 2000 when they stole 20 gnomes overnight from a garden exhibition in Paris, and they were suspected in 2006, when 80 gnomes were stolen in the central Limousin region of France under a banner that said "gnome mistreated, gnome liberated". </P> <P> In 2008, a 53 - year - old man, who law enforcement officials believed acted alone, was arrested on suspicion of stealing as many as 170 garden gnomes in the Brittany region of France . </P> <P> The travelling gnome prank was popularized by the film Amélie (2001) in which the main character persuaded her father to follow his dream of touring the world by stealing his garden gnome and having an air hostess friend send pictures of it from all over the world . The traveling gnome theme later became the basis for Travelocity's "Where is my Gnome?" advertising campaign . </P> <P> The travelling gnome has appeared in several video games . For example, it has been used as a recurring Easter egg in The Sims computer game series, such as Sim City 3 (1999) where different varieties of garden gnomes appear and move or change position daily and in Sim City 4 (2004), in which gnomes reveals themselves in the game's buildable landmarks . In the video game, Half - Life 2: Episode Two (2007), players receive a special achievement award for launching a garden gnome into outer space in a rocket after carrying it throughout most of the game . Gnonstop Gnomes, a mobile app for Android and iOS devices, lets users attach clipart of virtual gnomes to their travel photographs that they can share with friends . </P>

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