Shades of Burning Man
The Seattle Times: Latest news wires from the Associated Press — This is a rather peculiar new “tradition.”
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Vandals set light to a giant straw goat Saturday night in a central Swedish town, police said – an event that has happened so frequently it has almost become a Christmas tradition.
It was the 22nd time that the goat had gone up in smoke since merchants in Gavle, 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Stockholm, began erecting it to mark the holiday season.
Police spokeswoman Margareta Olander said officers received a call just after 9 p.m. to report that the goat was ablaze
dug up by Sean Bailey
There’s only so many times a man can be expected to watch ‘Miracle on 34th Street’. I welcome flaming Christmas effigies with open arms.
If guns made this world better Iraq would be the greatest place on earth right now. Everyone’s got AK-47’s and tons of ammo! Everybody in Falluja say “the roof, the roof is on fire, we ain’t got no water so let the motherfucker burn!”