The ill-fated Gavle Goat has failed to survive to see Christmas this year. I knew something was up when the link to the webcam wasn’t working. It looks like it got burned down a week ago on the 13th.
Is is wrong that I think the unofficial tradition of attempted arson is kind of awesome? It’s like a giant metaphor for all the kids trying their best to be good until Christmas in the face of temptation. Sweet, giant, flammable temptation.
That is possibly one of the funniest things I have ever read, thank you
Capt
A couple of years ago they sprayed fire retardant chemicals on it.
They do it every year, but it doesn’t work. There are way too many many nutcases around who cheer whenever the goat burns and I just can’t comprehend why. If someone, in this case the shop owners in Gävle, makes an effort to do something nice to people destroying it is about as egotistical I can imagine.
Edward Woodward in ----- The Wicker Goat.
At least it’s not Nicholas Cage
“…copycat goat burning…” 
As it happens there was a copycat goat burning the other day.
I burning your goat!
No matter how hard you try, there’s always some skitstövel trying to get your goat.
“…all the other kings said I was daft to build a goat, but I built it anyway! It burned down. I built another one! It burned down. So I built a third one! It burned down, fell over and sank into the swamp.”
“The year is 2012. The name of the place is Gavlebocken 46.”
I wonder how it would fare amongst artists and revelers in the Nevada desert?
Wouldn’t the purpose of a straw yule goat is that you burn it? Isn’t that the point?
Burning Goat.