PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) - It was a crime of miniature proportions
A collection of 40 stolen garden gnomes appeared Tuesday in a traffic circle outside the South Okanagan Art Gallery.
The gallery has come to their rescue.
"We're setting up a gnome reclamation centre," curator Kurtis Collins said Wednesday.
The stolen gnomes occupied the same place where a nude male statue was erected and then removed after it was vandalized.
Penticton is about 300 kilometres east of Vancouver.