A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The statue was found with red spray-paint. A nearby poster memorial in front of the statue was vandalized with red paint as well.
A town in Sweden erects a giant straw goat every Yule / Christmas and somebody almost always finds a way to burn it down. That’s despite ever increasing measures to protect the goat - fencing, spotlights, CCTV, security guards.
Well that’s Charlie Kirk’s statue. They’ll have to encase the thing behind glass and steel walls to protect it from ever more novel attacks.
“When you build the straw goat how do you do it?”
“Well we first take a 500W high intensity light bulb and pack the straw around it. Makes it shine from inside. Very pretty.”
What is the intent for the straw horse other than to be burned?
Goat. Goats are a traditional Nordic yule / Christmas thing often made of straw for decorations and used as themes for festivities. Gavle in Sweden made a goat into a display like a Christmas tree. Except people kept burning it down. It’s managed to survive more often than not in the last few years but only with round the clock protection. Last year’s goat still managed to get destroyed by a storm.