Fun history of the Gävle Goat - current right up to this year's collapse ending!
#GavleGoat
The data set for my #Gävlebocken quilt is Wikipedia and their official judgement is this year’s #goat was fully destroyed by storm winds
So I filled that last 2025 square with black signifying “destroyed some way other than fire”. The 2024 square is straw yellow for “survived”
Declaring this top now finished and adding it to my TBQ pile for 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat?wprov=sfti1#2020%E2%80%93current
The crane and flatbed have arrived. The wreckage of the collapsed Gävle goat is being dismantled and removed. So GoatWatch is definitely fully over. Can't even watch the heap o' goat.
Live stream
https://www.youtube.com/live/IhU2MIUaFlg
Official website
https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
vinesauce joel presents: the #GävleGoat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEXgonMlt60
(also if you like vinesauce check out @VineBot)
Collapsing is not the same as burning, but it's still destroyed and I wanna say it counts. Nature itself realised man would fail (again) and decided to set things right.
Well, at least it didn't burn down? (yet)
@Yuriel
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I'll take it as a win
#gavlegoat
OMG #GävleGoat
Happy the Gävle goat is destroyed to everyone who celebrate!
Live the kind of life where multiple people reach out to make sure that you know the #GavleGoat fell over.
Oh no! The Gävle yule goat has fallen down from high wind!
Honestly #Gävlebocken, I too feel like flopping onto the ground after everything that’s happened this year. #GävleGoat
GAVLEBOCKEN DOWN! I REPEAT, GAVLEBOCKEN DOWN!
Blown down by wind gusts today. No idea what THAT presages for 2026.
So I guess GoatWatch2025 is over. It's too late in the season for them to rebuild and the wooden frame probably needs repairs. Nothing's been confirmed yet, so I'll post any news about when the wreckage of the goat will be taken away, or any other developments. What's left could still burn after all! Meanwhile, thanks for following the morning updates! See you in December 2026.
Live stream
https://www.youtube.com/live/IhU2MIUaFlg
Official website
https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
@owl Worth noting that SVT says "inga uppgifter om personskador" (basically: no *known* injuries) whereas the official Visit Gävle web site explicitly states "no one has been injured". https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat
No one bother me, I’m watching this clip of the #GavleGoat falling over and over.
(Thanks @beecycling )
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxqbtRjPFNwMwc3mvsHol6wZD7Op3ZSGV5
I made a YouTube Short of the moment the goat falls.
https://youtube.com/shorts/M63qkfpUX6w
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