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Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 25 2018, @10:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the Pitches-and-forks-time-lads dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

It's that time of year again where the good folks of Gavle, Sweden build a gigantic goat and the bad folks of Gavle try to burn it down. For five decades, Gavle has built a Gavlebocken, a large scale Yule Goat made out of straw. For decades Santa will be putting coal in their stocking for trying to destroy the gigantic goat. In its 52nd year, technology and goat protection methods have improved including fireproofing and a live web cam. Only 15 out of 51 goats built were not destroyed in years past. Let's hope this one survives.

[The linked story has incorrect spelling of the name of the town in Sweden and goat — it should be Gävle and Gävlebocken, respectively. --martyb]

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @02:16AM (5 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday December 26 2018, @02:16AM (#778462)

    Funnily enough, that particular site is perfectly safe, despite what the URL looks like.

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:09AM (4 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:09AM (#778482) Journal

    Appears to be a rustic goat farm/diary/store of some kind best I can tell.

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    • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:29AM (2 children)

      by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:29AM (#778495)

      Blissfully unaware of the goatse legend...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:02PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:02PM (#778580)

        We Can Fix That

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        • (Score: 4, Funny) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:28PM

          by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:28PM (#778617) Journal

          Three characters.

          I can't believe he could make me cringe using just THREE CHARACTERS.

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    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday December 27 2018, @04:45AM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 27 2018, @04:45AM (#778901) Homepage Journal

      Looks like a pleasant mother and child scene involving goats instead of people.