Not again! Giant Swedish Christmas goat statue gets torched (Reuters)

23. December 2009, 10:22 UhrWeird NewsYahoo! News: Oddly Enough - ReutersComments Off

The charred remains of a Christmas straw goat stands in the town center of Gavle, Northern Sweden, on Wednesday Dec. 23, 2009. Torching the goat has become a yuletide tradition, in spite of surveillance cameras and security guards the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) goat has burned 24 times since it was first set up in 1966 to mark the holiday season. (AP Photo/Pernilla Wahlman)Reuters - Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row.