:Number of goats run over includes goats run over by motorized vehicle.In popular culture* A week before the burning of the Gävle Goat in 2005 a couple of pictures started to circulate on the internet community Lunarstorm. Even though the goat was enclosed by a 2 m (6.5 ft) high metal fence, guarded by Securitas and even soldiers from the Gävle I 14 Infantry Regiment, it was burned down in January. *2001 Goat set on fire on 23 December by Lawrence Jones, a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. This was the first time that it was guarded by webcams. [ cite news|title=Lillbocken lågornas rov|publisher=Gefle Dagblad|language=Swedish|date=2006-12-21 ] [ cite news|title=Lilla bocken brändes ned i natt |publisher=Arbetarbladet|language=Swedish|url=http://www.arbetarbladet.se/local_article.php?id=472580&avdelning_2=101|date=2006-12-20 ] On the night of 25 December, a drunken man managed to climb up on the goat. No new goat was built. * There is a restaurant in Gävle named "The Burned Goat" (Brända Bocken), which features the timeline for the Gävle Goat on their web site. The Natural Science Club's goat was burned down as well. The perpetrator, who was from Hofors, Gästrikland, was found and convicted of vandalism. [ cite news|title=The first attack on the goat failed|publisher=Arbetarbladet|language=Swedish|date=2006-12-16|url=http://www.arbetarbladet.se/local_article.php?id=471066&avdelning_1=101&avdelning_2=101&variabe ] [ cite news|title=Gävle goat unscathed after arson attack|publisher= The Local|language=English|date=2006-12-15|url=http://www.thelocal.se/5815/20061215/ ] The Natural Science Club's goat was burned at about 00:40 on the 20th December, the vandals were not seen and got away. *1994 Nothing happened. The goat stood 10.5 metres (34 ft) when completed. * There is a restaurant in Gävle named "The Burned Goat" (Brända Bocken), which features the timeline for the Gävle Goat on their web site. The Southern Merchants' goat was rebuilt, but burned down on 20 December. [10], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}60°40′22″N 17°08′47″E / 60.6728°N 17.1465°E / 60.6728; 17.1465, "The biggest Christmas Goat in the world", "Christmas 2012: The Swedish goat that takes Christmas by the horns", "Gävlebocken på plats – hur länge får den stå? * The hunt for the arsonist responsible for the goat-burning in 2005 was featured on the weekly Swedish live broadcast TV3's "Most Wanted" ("Efterlyst") on 2005-12-08. The Pewdstersund Goat (Pewdstersundbocken) is a large Yule goat model made of straw, erected in Pewdstersund every year as a Christmas display since 1966. *2005 Burned by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and a gingerbread man by shooting a flaming arrow or molotov cocktail at the goat at 21:00 on 3 December. [4] [5] The Gävle Goat of 2003. * Sven Bergvall and Jacob Östberg's videography "Burning Bock" (2005) won the "peoples choice" award at the 2005 Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference and film festival in San Antonio, Texas, USA. 1973. The construction of the goat was carried out by the Gävle fire department, and they physically erected the goat from 1966 to 1970 and 1986 to 2002. The Christmas season of 2006 marked the 40th anniversary of the Gävle Goat, and, on Sunday, 3 December, the city held a large celebration in honor of the goat. Enclosed by a 2 metres (6.6 ft) high metal fence, guarded by, The 12.5-metre (41 ft) tall goat of the Natural Science Club was featured in the. The next year there was a Goat war: the Southern Merchants understood the publicity value, and erected a huge goat, the Natural Science Club erected a smaller one in protest. [cite news|title=Santa and gingerbread man get Gävle's goat|date=2005-12-04|url=http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2620|work=The Local] [ cite news|title=That's why I burned the goat in Gävle|publisher=Aftonbladet|language=Swedish|date=2003-12-17|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/debatt/story/0,2789,406509,00.html ] *2002 A 22 year old from Stockholm tried to set the Southern Merchants' goat on fire, but failed. * In the United States there is an organization called "Goat Watchers" that has a couple of hundred members. The Greek god, Pan, is said to have the upper body of a man and the horns and lower body of a goat. An advertising consultant, Stig Gavlén, came up with the idea of making a giant version of the traditional Swedish Yule Goat and placing it in the square. The Visby goat on Gotland burned down, the Yule Goat in Söderköping, Östergötland was torched, and there was an attack on a goat located in Lycksele, Västerbotten. The perpetrator of the three attacks was caught and sent to jail. *1970 The goat burned down only six hours after it was assembled. [5] The design of the first goat was assigned to the then chief of the Gävle fire department, Gavlén's brother Jörgen Gavlén. The big goat got burned down the night before Christmas Eve. The skeleton is then treated and repaired, and the goat reconstructed over it, using straw which the Goat Committee has pre-ordered.cite news|title=New goat is already on the way|publisher=Arbetarbladet|language=Swedish|date=2005-12-06|url=http://www.arbetarbladet.se/local_article.php?avdelning_2=0&id=350212 ] Burning the goat is an illegal act and can result in severe fines or even prison time for arson. The burning goat of 2011. The Natural Science Club (Naturvetenskapliga Föreningen:NF) from the School of Vasa (Vasaskolan) took over. *2001 Goat set on fire on 23 December by Lawrence Jones, a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. The suspected goat-burners voluntarily called the police; it turned out that they were from Stockholm and they were fans of the famous Gävle ice-hockey team Brynäs. In one of their most bizarre segments they asked the public to help track down two suspected arsonists, a man in a Santa mask and a man dressed as a gingerbread man, wanted for burning down the Gävle Goat. The Natural Science Club say that they will not attempt a new world record as long as the Southern Merchants do not either.Nowadays the Natural Science Club's goat is smaller than the record-holding goat, and it is also smaller than the Southern Merchants' Gävle Goat.Timeline*1966 Stig Gavlén came up with the idea of a giant goat made out of straw. [ cite news|title=The first attack on the goat failed|publisher=Arbetarbladet|language=Swedish|date=2006-12-16|url=http://www.arbetarbladet.se/local_article.php?id=471066&avdelning_1=101&avdelning_2=101&variabe ] [ cite news|title=Gävle goat unscathed after arson attack|publisher= The Local|language=English|date=2006-12-15|url=http://www.thelocal.se/5815/20061215/ ] The Natural Science Club's goat was burned at about 00:40 on the 20th December, the vandals were not seen and got away. In a memorable scene, the Swedish actor Reine Brynolfsson climbs up on the goat (outrageously drunk) and stands on top of it screaming that he is going to torch it, which he then does. In 1971, the Southern Merchants became so fed up with the continual burning of their goats, that for 15 years they stopped building them and the task was taken up by the Natural Science Club of the School of Vasa. Jones stated in court that he is no "goat burner", and believed that he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition. * Sven Bergvall and Jacob Östberg's videography "Burning Bock" (2005) won the "peoples choice" award at the 2005 Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference and film festival in San Antonio, Texas, USA. That goat escaped with only minor burn marks on the legs. The Natural Science Club's goat was burned down as well. Then Harry Ström, who at that time was the chairman of the Southern Kingstreet Non-profit Organisation, decided to pay the whole cost for the goat out of his own pocket. [8][14][15][16][17], In 1996, the Southern Merchants introduced camera surveillance to monitor the goat 24 hours a day. * Sven Bergvall and Jacob Östberg's videography "Burning Bock" (2005) won the "peoples choice" award at the 2005 Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference and film festival in San Antonio, Texas, USA. * Sven Bergvall and Jacob Östberg's videography "Burning Bock" (2005) won the "peoples choice" award at the 2005 Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference and film festival in San Antonio, Texas, USA. *1986 The merchants of Gävle decided they were willing to build the goat once again. The claims were not generally given much credit: even the chief of the Gävle fire brigade expressed his doubts. In addition to the Southern Merchants' goat being burned, the Natural Science Club's goat was thrown into the Gävle river. Financial contributions from the public were raised to rebuild a goat that was burned down in January. *1986 The merchants of Gävle decided they were willing to build the goat once again. It takes a whole truck full of straw from the local village of Mackmyra to create the goat. * When "USA Today" reported the burning of the Gävle goat on 2005-12-04, [cite news|work=USA Today|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-12-04-christmas-goat_x.htm|title=Vandals burn giant Christmas straw goat in Sweden, again|date=2005-12-04|author=The Associated Press] it was side by side with the trial of Saddam Hussein and other top headlines. Pan was a very lustful god, nearly all of the myths involving him had to do with him chasing nymphs. *1991 This year the goat was joined by an advertising sled, that turned out to be illegally built. 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