GÄVLEBOCKEN BRINNER!!!

AHAHAHAHA THE FIRE RISES!!!

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RIP
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brenne en kirke i dag

I see a pair of fiery titties.

I don't see it. I only see a burning goat

it hasnt even been up for a day yet

this has to be record time

someone post the timeline pic

This needs an update

RIP IN PIECE, GÄVLEBOCKEN

Absolutely based, this is the >Sweden >Yes I love to see

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>gingerbreadman and santa burn it down
are there pictures?

Yes! I was so dissapointed last year!

What is this?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat

hahahahaha

why do you keep doing this

I've seen one of these in Vaasa

They can't keep getting away with it!

that was fast

the goat needs to burn

Nice, there's still time to burn another one

Här är varför du är misstagen.

DID IT BURN?

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Uhh what is it?

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>american burns it down thinking it's a tradition

Fucking lol

I remember that. I was 8years old laughing my ass off at it. It was big news here. poor guy

Is this legit?
Did it happen this year?

Fucking faggots making words up.

right now m8
aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article23999324.ab

Quite crazy tho.

The fire rises

Ah yes, the
>FUCKING SPRIG
goat

>Goat burned only hours after completion.

I hope they build a second one. Good going Sweden bros

what the hell

>a costumed gingerbred mean and Father Christmas shoot flaming arrows at the goat
Literally GOAT

I wonder how they did it this year with all the extra security measures

God bless Sweden

gypsy fire magic
rumour is some guys gave a beggar some money and she cast a spell on it

How'd they do it this time?

>saw it came up on the news
>thought of the horrible dissapointment last year
>go to bed and see this thread

Gonna sleep good tonight lads. Thanks Sweden! It will be a great day tomorrow and a great new year!

ToriParkki :3

very big magnifying glass

*saw the goat came up

Why do they do it?

right in front of best fast food

aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article23999324.ab

Hasty translation: Since i gtg to bed

50year jubilee of he goat it burns after just a few hours

The first goat was built in 1966

The goat weighs 3,6tons and is 13m in height and 7m long


During the years the goat has been ramed by a car and burned by an american tourist

When the alarm came in to the fire departement the goat was already ablaze

Police are searching for one man suspected of gross property damage

>"We don't think it was an accident and we are currently interviewing witnesses"says the commanding police officer Matilda Isaksson

>Are there a lot of people ther?

>"yes there's an unusual amount of people so someone must have seen something"

TT has also spoken to Maria Wallberg (spokesperson for Gävlebocken)

>"I just heard that apparently a person standing next to the nearby resturant threw a fire bomb at the goat. It's now up to the police since a crime has been commited", she say

When asked if the goat will be rebuilt again this year she said
>"not we said beforehand that only one goat would be built this year"
Sorry ladds ;_;7

>"I WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES"

At around 23:10 the Gävlegoats twitteracount was updated with the following post

>"Oh no, so little time I got to spend wih you all this year, but believe me I will rise from the ashes! Se you all next year my friends!"

A local communce politiciians (or whatever) Margaretha Wedin, from the Centerparty said when told about the gaots demise
>"oh no it has? Well what can I say, that's incredibly sad"
>it's very very saddening and disrespectful for all the people who think this is a nice symbol. this year it was extra pretty with a bowtie since it was it's 50th birthday

Kostar upp emot 250 000

Then a local Social democrat, Jörgen Edsvik (S) is pissed since it costs the taxpayers 250.000 SEK (rougly 25k USD)

again hasty translation so forgive any spelling errors

Another straw goat. Only bigger. And on wheels. They set it on fire and rammed it into the Gavle goat

black metal has rotted their brains

>burned by an american tourist

rumors are molotov cocktail or something similar.
"a fire bomb" is the only description we have

>the goat lamenting its untimely fate on twitter
Sad!

;_;7

>Another straw goat. Only bigger. And on wheels. They set it on fire and rammed it into the Gavle goat
Absolutely genious and foolproof plan. How could Gävle ever prepare for something like that.Goat was doomed from the start

Hold up!
It costs €25.000 to build that thing?
Is some local corrupt politician supplying the hay or something?

Gävlebocken...hade a hard life
twitter.com/Gavlebocken/status/802771122261553152

I bet it's all the extra security.
I think they have some unflammable liquid poured on it, cameras, security etc.
That's why it survived last year

;_;7

RIP

It didn't survive last year though, last time it survived was 2014 and 2010.

sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävlebocken

Hesburger?

oh I thought last year was when it caught fire but it fizzled out

I remember everyone being pissed off about it surviving last year...

Here's an article from 2015 about how it burned down that year:
aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article22001401.ab

You are probably thinking of 2014.

Oh god where did the time go.

>2016
>caring about what year it is

>1976
>Hit by Volvo
AHAHAHAHA

Fucking. Based.

Who said Swedes don't have culture?

>hit by a volvo
>helicopter robbery attempt

>this year it was extra pretty with a bowtie since it was it's 50th birthday

now I feel bad

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>not even december

not feeling this, at all. its like it doesnt count

this desu, there needs to be some build up before it's burned

RIP in pieces my fren

Yeah a bit early, I blame the extra security and all that, made people want to see it burned even more.

Still good though, years where it doesn't burn are just not years worth remembering.

Why do the fucking politicians get mad about it getting burned when it happens more often than not?

>In 2001, the goat was burned down by a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio in the United States, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. The court confiscated his cigarette lighter with the argument that he clearly was not able to handle it.

No wonder gun crime rates are so high in America. Even lighter is too much firepower for them to handle.

political correctness

>At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, the goat went up in smoke. The perpetrator was found and charged with vandalism. The Gävle Goat has been burned down 25 times since then.

What is the definition of insanity?

Politicians kind of have to pretend to care when they justify spending $25,000 on the damn thing

the city probably makes 10x that money in tourism income because of the goat

There are various ones but if you're going for the popculture one, that doesn't really apply since they come up with various measures to protect the goat. Sometimes they even work.

Doubt it, who would travel to fucking sweden from abroad to see a straw goat

And why anyone within sweden, unless you live within 30min, would travel to see it is beyond me as well

If it does, it's only due to it burning down. If nobody burned it I wouldn't even know it existed, and I live in Sweden.

nobody would know gävle if it wasnt for that goat, 250,000 kronor is literally nothing compared to the media attention it gets

>Sweden
>Goat

I was wondering why they all want to go to Sweden. Now I know.

True, even modest advertising campaigns cost at the very least around 250K sek

business idea: "burning goat" trademark and plethora of products

what is gavlebockekkvn

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