Gymnastiktävling gävle 2022
The display is a giant version of a traditional Swedish Yule goat figure made of straw. It is erected each year by local community groups at the beginning of Gymnastiktävling gävle 2022 over a period of two days. The Gävle Goat has been the subject of repeated arson attacks; despite security measures and a nearby fire station, the goat has been burned to the ground most years since its first appearance in As of December[update] 42 out of 58 goats have been destroyed or damaged in some way.
Burning or destroying the goat is illegal, and the Svea Court of Appeal has stated that the offence should normally carry a 3-month prison sentence. The Gävle Goat is erected every year on the first day of Adventwhich according to Western Christian tradition is in late November or early December, depending on the calendar year. Ingymnastiktävling gävle 2022 advertising consultant, Stig Gavlén —[ 4 ] came up with the idea of making a giant version of the traditional Swedish Yule Goat and placing it in the square.
The construction of the goat was carried out by the fire department, and they erected the goat each year from to and from to The first goat was financed by Harry Ström.
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On 1 Decembera metre 43 ft tall, 7-metre 23 ft gymnastiktävling gävle 2022, 3-tonne goat was erected in the square. On New Year's Evethe goat was burnt down, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and the perpetrator was found and convicted of vandalism. The goat was insured, and Ström got all of his money back. A group of businessmen known as the Southern Merchants Söders Köpmän financed the building of the goat in subsequent years.
Inthe Southern Merchants stopped building the goats. Their goat was around 2 metres 6. Due to the positive reaction their Yule Goat received that year, they built another one the following year and from then on. The city pays one-third of the cost while the Southern Merchants pay the remaining sum.
The display has become notable for being a recurring target for vandalism by arsonand has been destroyed many times since the first goat was erected in If the goat is burned down before 13 December, the feast day of Saint Luciathe goat is rebuilt. The skeleton is then treated and repaired, and the goat reconstructed over it, using straw which the Goat Committee has pre-ordered.
The court confiscated his cigarette lighter with the argument that he clearly was not able to handle it. He stated in court that he was gymnastiktävling gävle 2022 "goat burner", and believed that he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition. After he was released from jail he returned to the US without paying his fine. Inthe Southern Merchants introduced camera surveillance to monitor the goat 24 hours a day.
On 27 November the Gävle Goat's homepage was hacked, and one of the two official webcams changed.
Gävle's brilliant Christmas symbol
As the guards ducked into a nearby restaurant to escape the cold, the vandals struck. During the weekend of 3—4 Decembera series of attacks on public Yule Goats across Sweden were carried out; the Gävle Goat was burnt on 3 December. The Visby goat on Gotland burned down, the Yule Goat in SöderköpingÖstergötland was torched, and there was an attack on a goat located in LyckseleVästerbotten.
The Christmas season of marked the 40th anniversary of the Gävle Goat, and, on Sunday 3 December, the city held a large celebration in honor of the goat. The Goat Committee fireproofed the goat with "Fiber ProTector Fireproof", a fireproofing substance that is used in airplanes. In earlier years when the goat had been fireproofed, the dew had made the liquid drip off the goat.
On 27 November an arsonist equipped with petrol burned it down just hours after its inauguration. Until the Southern Merchants held the world record for the largest Yule Goat, but over the years the Natural Science Club's goat increased in size, and in their Gymnastiktävling gävle 2022 Goat made it into the Guinness Book of Records with an official height of The creator of the original goat, Stig Gavlén, thought that the Natural Science Club's goat had unfairly won the title of the largest Yule Goat because the goat was not as attractive as the Southern Merchants' goat and the neck was excessively long.
The next year there was a Goat war: the Southern Merchants understood the publicity value, and erected a huge goat, the Natural Gymnastiktävling gävle 2022 Club erected a smaller one in protest. The Southern Merchants had intended that their huge goat would reclaim the world record, but the measurement of the goat showed it fell short.
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Over the following seven years there were no further attempts on the world record, but there was gymnastiktävling gävle 2022 hostility between the Natural Science Club and the Southern Merchants, evidenced by the fact that the Natural Science Club put up a sign near their goat wishing a Merry Christmas to everyone, except the Southern Merchants. In the Southern Merchants again announced that they were going to attempt the world record.
The goat stood Sinceas a Christmas promotion for the Icelandic branch of IKEA in GarðabærIcelanda straw goat inspired by the Gävle goat has been erected outside the store annually. It has suffered the same issue of repeated acts of arson as well as natural damage. In the IKEA goat was burned down on the 23 December by arsonists who were arrested at the scene, IKEA decided to give the arsonists a settlement offer of paying for the cleanup instead of pressing charges.
In the goat was again burned down by arsonists.