Hundreds of people dressed as garden gnomes, complete with pointy red hats are marching down the road. It’s all part of an annual attempt to break the world record for largest gnome march. Atlanta artist Chantelle Ritter is captain of the Krewe of the Greatful Gluttons, a social club that organizes the march.
“Well of course I have hopes that we’re going to break the record, though it’s an impossible number of gnomes. But anything is possible. We are never going to give up. We are gonna do this year after year because it is ridiculous fun and we are silly people”
Unfortunately with only 264 gnomes, they didn’t even come close. The record is currently held by Great Britain with 478 gnomes.
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