I love things like this:

Police on Victoria’s west coast have taken 18 garden gnomes back to their station after finding them on the side of the road.

The gnomes were found around 5:30am AEDT, lined up at a pedestrian crossing on Pertobe Road in Warrnambool.

But I especially love that everyone involved seems to have a sense of humor.

“They are all happy, I have given them a cup of tea and they are minding their business at the moment,” he said.
…
“Well we’ve got the gnomes back here at the police station at the moment - unfortunately we were unable to fingerprint them,” he said.

(Story that first caught my attention years ago, here.)