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December 8, 2017 08:05 am PST

The Gvle goat: huge straw holiday goat often gets burned down

The Gvle goat is an enormous straw goat erected anually in the Swedish town. Just as traditional, though, is the act of (illegally) burning it down. Though the authorities have made efforts to prevent the arson, the Gvle goat only has about a half chance of surviving December. Reddit user desfirsit charted the historical survival rates across the month, and found that the heavy-drinking days leading up to St Lucy's Day and Christmas were most dangerous for the Gvle goat: "Only 44 percent of the goats have survived all of december."

Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vI1o6NOZrMk/the-gavle-goat-huge-straw-hol.html

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