Gavle Goat 2015

[Master Ray]

I still have no idea what this is about so I'll put in a random date and say... the 19th??? 

[Pol]

They burn a wicker goat or something ray is all I know

[Pim]

27th, it's already 2 years since I won, so it's time again

[Rusco]

Goat news on Aftonbladet:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/senastenytt/ttnyheter/inrikes/article21850206.ab

Written in Swedish. Tried to Google translate it but didn't succeed with a telly...

Headline says: "So will the Gävle goat live over the Christmas? " The photo/video link is from earlier years.

[Rusco]

Here's the translation:

"Christmas tradition. The security situation is enhanced around the Castle Square in Gävle.

On Sunday inaugurated Gävle Goat, which over the years affected by fires, greasers and hackers.

Everything is rigged and ready before its traditional inauguration of the world's largest Christmas goat Advent.

- The goat was installed last Thursday and Friday finputsades hen, says the goat's spokesperson Annelie Hyden, president of Bock Committee.

Gavle Goat live a precarious life and have in most years since the birth in 1966 burned or vandalized.

Safety is a constant headache, but preparations despite a dangerous gap in the arrangements which the Committee is aware of: Bending The straw is no longer flame retardant. The flame retardant used previously attracted moisture that weighed down the straw.

- It did not look so nice, says Annelie Hyden.

To buck anyway to survive Christmas guarded by the security guards and cameras monitored around the clock. At the same time move the taxi stand at Södermalmstorg to Castle Square for more people to move around the area and bending friends are encouraged to keep watch.

- The goat would love to have company and we believe it is safest if it gets there, says Annelie Hyden."


Some typos in it, right?  Hehe... It didn't work either in Finnish. Well yea, "bock" is a goat (and once mistyped as "buck" in the original post) but what a heck they said about greasers and hackers?

[Hughie]

I'll go for 20 December.

I think most people have sussed it by now.  Often the goat gets burned at some point, sometimes it survives until it's taken down in the new year.  Yes it's illegal and no the organisers (officially at any rate) don't like the the "tradition" of burning it down.

For quite a few years there's been a sweepstake on the noticeboard - sometimes duplicated on FB now, where you can have a different guess.  Yes people have guessed correctly quite a few times.  the prize is some singed/un-singed straw - winner to arrange own travel expenses and collection.

Nobody has chosen survival yet, which is also an option of course.

[jez pike]

I'll go for the survival slot,lets hope he makes it this year.

[Hughie]

After the first few days of not so high octane thrills and spills, the goat still stands and most people remain in the running for glory.  However there have been a couple of early casualties with both Maggi D and Viv predicting that singed straw would have been blowing through the streets of Gavle before now.

Apparently the goat is very wet after a lot of rain.

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[Wessexy Witch]

Can I have 20th ?

 

[Hughie]

Can I have 20th ?

 

No, already gone (it was my pick).  Plenty of others to choose from though.

[Wessexy Witch]

21st then please.

 

[Master Ray]

Well, I'm involved now and even though I deplore acts of vandalism I'm sticking by the 19th...

So I'm now heavily invested in the collapse of a big wet goat a week next Saturday...

Yet another statement that this Forum has led me to and I never thought I'd say...

[Coumarin]

its usually a Friday or sat. High spirits and that....incidentally a certain golfer who's name rhymes with "goods" used to live in the hotel behind.

[Master Ray]

Any update?

[Danny]

Judging on the camera feed Jack posted in the first post of the thread it's still standing... good job Rusco took the 11th off me on here, so I'm still in contention with the 20th