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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @06:58AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @06:58AM (#778509)

    Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon among men with immigrant backgrounds in the country’s parallel societies, increased from 4 per year in the early 1990s to around 40 last year. Because of this, Sweden has gone from being a low-crime country to having homicide rates significantly above the Western European average. Social unrest, with car torchings, attacks on first responders and even riots, is a recurring phenomenon.

    Shootings in the country have become so common that they don’t make top headlines anymore

    That is really sad.
    How is Sweden going to fix this problem?

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:11AM (#778514)

    Pick an minority or create a grouping that seem to involved to some degree, then denigrate and oppress them. That'll fix the problem. Extra points if you can create a media circus to blame them and direct as much fear and hate towards them as you can. That way you can set up an 'us vs them' mentality in the population.

    That's the best way to deal with these problems. Nothing can go wrong with this approach.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:29AM (#778518)

      If this continues muslims will be the majority in these places.
      What then?

  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @11:39AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday December 26 2018, @11:39AM (#778538)

    How is Sweden going to fix this problem?

    From the looks of it, by having the supposed adults bicker for over three months [telegraph.co.uk] over who gets the mantle of responsibility to bask in their own sunshine while neglecting the needs of the country and its citizens.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:08PM (#778582)

    good thing those guns are illegal. that should make the swedish sleep better at night or more likely to send their teen daughter to the store for bread.