The Grass is Greener

It's not just the bizarre nature of this BBC News story which caught my attention:

A pensioner woke on Sunday morning to find that her front lawn had been stolen by opportunistic thieves.

Most of all I'm caught by the fact the BBC have sourced or, even more bizarrely, commissioned a shot of "some lawn" to illustrate it. 'Coz - you know - we'd never make that mental image stick otherwise.