IN BRIEF
Vandals burn straw
Christmas goat, again
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Vandals
set light to a giant straw goat Satur
day night in a central Swedish town,
police said — an event that has hap
pened so frequently it has almost be
come a Christmas tradition.
It was the 22nd time that the goat
had gone up in smoke since mer
chants in Gavle, 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.
“In just a couple of minutes only
a sooty wooden skeleton re
mained,” she said. There were no
immediate suspects, but Olander
said that one of two men seen run
ning from the scene was wearing a
Father Christmas mask.
Since 1966, just 10 of the 43-foot
high goats have survived beyond
Christmas Day. Most were burned —
sometimes within hours of being built
during the first week of December. The
1976 goat was hit by a car, while in
1997, it was damaged by fireworks.
—The Associated Press
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