Sweden’s Christmas goat

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The Swedish city of Gävle has put up its annual Christmas goat, a nearly 50-foot-tall, straw structure that regularly is burned down despite the town’s attempts to secure it with webcams and guards. The city’s deputy mayor says that so far, its famous Gävleblocken is still standing, although a tiny version of it that stands beside it was torched over the weekend. Marco Werman tells the story.

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