gunfood
17-12-2010, 21:43
Ok, here's the backround story, without dates, i dont care :P
The city of Gävle in Sweden has an old tradition to build a huge goat made of straw, end of christmas tradition.
Now... Pranksters have another tradition; to try to set the goat on fire before christmas eve :P
Nowdays they have at least one cam and a guard, "fireproof" liquid poured on it, but peeps try and try.
It is illegal, but none has been caught yet, but I think some swedish nice peeps got an englishman drunk and told him it was a swedish tradition to set it on fire and that he was free to do it :P I think he failed to set it on fire, but I'm not sure, he was caught trying at least.
Here's a link to a live webcam on the christmas straw goat :)
http://www.merjuligavle.se/Bocken/Bockenkamera1/
Last year it aaaalmost made it through christmas, it burned the day before eve :P bummer!
What date do you think it'll burn this year??
I say xmas eve :)
*edit*
ok, i've read the history, it was an american, not englishman, he WAS caught as he did burn it down :P and the purpetraitors... how the heck do you spell that :/ i dunno... the bad guys has been caught alot of times it seems, my mistake :)
The city of Gävle in Sweden has an old tradition to build a huge goat made of straw, end of christmas tradition.
Now... Pranksters have another tradition; to try to set the goat on fire before christmas eve :P
Nowdays they have at least one cam and a guard, "fireproof" liquid poured on it, but peeps try and try.
It is illegal, but none has been caught yet, but I think some swedish nice peeps got an englishman drunk and told him it was a swedish tradition to set it on fire and that he was free to do it :P I think he failed to set it on fire, but I'm not sure, he was caught trying at least.
Here's a link to a live webcam on the christmas straw goat :)
http://www.merjuligavle.se/Bocken/Bockenkamera1/
Last year it aaaalmost made it through christmas, it burned the day before eve :P bummer!
What date do you think it'll burn this year??
I say xmas eve :)
*edit*
ok, i've read the history, it was an american, not englishman, he WAS caught as he did burn it down :P and the purpetraitors... how the heck do you spell that :/ i dunno... the bad guys has been caught alot of times it seems, my mistake :)