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This muck up day urban legend is a pretty well known one. The classic garden gnome theft has been a staple for the mediocre prankster for decades. It’s common knowledge that if you have a garden gnome in your front garden, you run the risk of having it ‘borrowed’ at some point in it’s tenure, especially if your house is, unfortunately, located near a high school.
Now, there are different versions of this urban legend, and I’m sure it’s been pulled off before in many different ways. But this is the general gist of the prank…
Every year, as muck-up days are being strategically planned out and preparations are made, a select group of students always seem to come to the conclusion that they need to form The Garden Gnome Liberation Squad. As the name suggests, this squad’s main objective is to seek out possible garden gnomes for the taking, and replant them in unexpected places, for example, behind teacher’s parked cars, or outside unsuspecting classrooms.
The day before the muck-up day it’s said The Garden Gnome Liberation Squad, go on the hunt for unguarded garden gnomes from innocent front gardens. There isn’t an exact time restriction or perimeter size for their mission, it solely depends on the dedication of the squad’s members’. It is rumoured that one year, a member’s desire to have the most garden gnomes, led him to Bunnings Warehouse where he bought as much as his back seat could hold. Some said, this was cheating, others were heard to say it was true commitment.
The ‘delivery’ of the garden gnomes is often done in many ways. The more daring of the squad’s sneak into the school in the cover of darkness and plant the gnomes as to give the unsuspecting staff and students a surprise when they arrive in the morning. The strategies are slowly releasing the gnomes during the muck-up day itself, so when the teachers believe that they’ve confiscated all the ceramic annoyances, another unsuspecting gnome pops up.
Sometimes gnome-owners say that a gnome they thought lost forever suddenly reappears back on their front lawn a few days later, but more times than often, the garden gnomes disappear, never to be gawked at again.
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DISCLAIMER: To make it clear, we are merely documenting the best muck up day stories in the country and we don’t condone damaging private property, underage drinking or garden gnomes. We definitely suggest that you stay home on muck up day and study really hard for exams. Do you think you’ve got a story that’s even more legendary? Share your muck up day urban legend on social media with #mudurbanlegends.
