A new threat to society has arisen, a threat more deadly than Al Qaeda, more evil than an Iranian Ayatollah, more mendacious than the French and more cynically self-serving than an American Republican Senator who has just accidentally shot a Democrat lawyer. I speak, my friends, of the humble garden gnome ...

A garden gnome has been captured, and will be executed unless you can save him by bidding in an online ebay auction ...

All proceeds of the auction go to Amnesty International ...